The most recent meeting between these two teams came in the last 16 of the DFB Cup in the 2020/21 season, with Essen winning 2-1 after extra time. Lukas Hradecky, Niklas Lomb, Edmond Tapsoba, Jeremie Frimpong, Exequiel Palacios, Florian Wirtz and Patrik Schick remain from the Werkself's squad that day.
Some tickets will be available on the gate tonight. The ticket office opens one and a half hours before kick-off at 17:30.
The game will be streamed live in the Bayer 04 app as well as on the Bayer 04 YouTube channel and Werkself-TV. SPORT1 is also broadcasting the match live in Germany.
After Jens Nowotny was officially named a Bayer 04 honorary captain last weekend, the long-standing Werkself player is part of the Leverkusen delegation on the trophy tour to New York City next week from 11 to 14 September. In an interview with bayer04.de, the 50-year-old talked about his expectations ahead of the trip to the metropolis on the East Coast of the USA.
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