Patrik Schick scores for Leverkusen to ship his coach Xabi Alonso a message earlier than Bayern video games
Feb 22, 2025 10:16 PM IST
Patrik Schick scores for Leverkusen to ship his coach Xabi Alonso a message earlier than Bayern video games
BERLIN — Patrik Schick confirmed Bayer Leverkusen what it was lacking in opposition to Bayern Munich final week by scoring in a 2-0 win at Holstein Kiel within the Bundesliga on Saturday.
Schick, who was omitted by Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso within the top-of-the-table conflict with Bayern, received Leverkusen off the mark within the ninth minute in Kiel after Amine Adli did effectively in opposition to two Kiel defenders to set him up. It was Schick’s fifteenth league aim of the season.
Alonso’s choice to solely ship Schick on late in stoppage time in opposition to Bayern raised eyebrows as his staff had dominated with out scoring for the earlier 90 minutes and extra with each Schick and fellow striker Victor Boniface watching from the substitutes’ bench.
That 0-0 draw stored Bayern eight factors clear with 12 rounds left to play.
Florian Wirtz performed Adli in to make it 2-0 earlier than the break in Kiel, the place Leverkusen’s win narrowed the hole to 5 factors earlier than Bayern hosts Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday.
Leverkusen faces Bayern once more over two video games within the final 16 of the Champions League on March 5 and 11. They would be the fourth and fifth conferences between the groups this season.
Additionally Saturday, Alexis Claude-Maurice scored a hat trick for Augsburg to beat Borussia Mönchengladbach 3-0 away.
The French midfielder scored all his targets after Gladbach goalkeeper Jonas Omlin was despatched off for taking down Fredrik Jensen, who was put by way of on aim by a botched backpass from Nico Elvedi. It was a transparent aim likelihood, and referee Florian Exner had no choice however to point out Omlin the crimson card within the twenty ninth.
Mainz defeated St. Pauli 2-0 at house, and Bochum drew at Wolfsburg 1-1 to climb out of a direct relegation place.
Borussia Dortmund was internet hosting Union Berlin later, with the house staff in search of its first Bundesliga win underneath new coach Niko Kovač, who began with two defeats.
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