Roger Schmidt has the luxury of once again naming an unchanged side as the in-form Bayer Leverkusen prepare to take on Hertha Berlin on Saturday afternoon.

Starting the season with a 2-0 victory over Borussia Dortmund last weekend was followed by a convincing win over FC Copenhagen in the Champions League, and Schmidt has elected to keep the faith with the same 11 players who started both of those games.

That means summer signing Josip Drmic will have to settle for a spot on the bench before waiting to make an impact later on for his new club.

John Brooks returns to the Hertha defence, while there is also a spot for Fabian Lustenberger as Peter Pekarik and Sebastian Langkamp drop out of the team.

Bayer Leverkusen: Leno, Jedvaj, Toprak, Spahic, Boenisch, Castro, Rolfes -Calhanoglu, Son, Bellarabi, Kiessling

Hertha Berlin: Jarstein - Brooks, Heitinga, Lustenberger, Schulz - Niemeyer - Beerens, Hosogai, van den Bergh, Ndjeng - Schieber