Two teams at opposite ends of the Bundesliga table face off at Merck-Stadion am Bollenfalltor on Saturday as basement club SV Darmstadt 98 play host to league leaders Bayer Leverkusen.
The hosts will be seeking revenge after suffering a heavy 5-1 away defeat against Leverkusen in the reverse fixture five months ago.
Darmstadt extended their unwanted winless run in the Bundesliga to 12 matches when they suffered a slender 1-0 away defeat to fellow relegation-threatened side Union Berlin last weekend.
Benedict Hollerbach scored the only goal of the game just after the hour mark to condemn the Lilies to their 12th top-flight defeat of the season, leaving them rooted to the foot of the table and six points adrift of safety.
Torsten Lieberknecht is under increased pressure to turn the club's fortunes around as they endeavour to avoid an immediate demotion to the second tier. Darmstadt have collected just 11 points from their opening 19 games this season; only in 2016-17 when they were relegated from the top flight have they accumulated fewer points (nine) at this stage of the season.
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