Wild game in Leverkusen – Bayer wrestles VfB Stuttgart down

Wild game in Leverkusen – Bayer wrestles VfB Stuttgart down

Bundesliga, 22nd matchday

It went back and forth between Bayer Leverkusen and VfB Stuttgart. The Werkself prevailed in the end – but the last few minutes were turbulent. A Stuttgarter in particular causes problems for the hosts.

Wild game – and an important win for Bayer Leverkusen: The Werkself won 4-2 (1-0) against the VfB Stuttgart and places second in the table Borussia Dortmund further under pressure. Moussa Diaby (41′), Amine Adli (52′), Florian Wirtz (86′) and Patrik Schick (89′) scored for coach Gerardo Seoane’s team, Tiago Tomas (49′, 88′) saved the game for them Guests open late.

From the last seven games, VfB scored just one point for coach Pellegrino Matarazzo, who, according to the club, is by no means available. Bayer, on the other hand, is still the most successful team in the new year. After five goals in a row twice before, there were four goals again on Saturday in front of 10,000 admitted spectators. With a seven-point lead in fifth place, Leverkusen is still on course for the Champions League, which they missed twice recently.

Leverkusen initially had bad luck with the post

Leverkusen had to replace national defender Jonathan Tah at short notice due to an infection, so Edmond Tapsoba had to work directly just three days after his return from the Africa Cup of Nations. As expected, captain and goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky was back in goal after his compulsory Corona break last week. Defense chief Waldemar Anton and striker Omar Marmoush were missing at VfB after positive corona tests, as well as the ailing striker Sasa Kalajdzic.

Bayer were the dominant team from the start and had more than 70 percent possession of the ball. Coach Gerardo Seoane kept calling for “tempo, tempo” from the outside. But the Swabians countered with a good order and were quite dangerous themselves. Three times almost a goal was scored before Diaby’s stroke of genius, which was blocked after a dribble and simply continued to dribble. Twice for Bayer with a shot at the post by Patrick Schick (13′) and an offside goal by Florian Wirtz (34′), once for VfB with a bang by Tiago Tomas (28′).

After the change it quickly became turbulent. First Tiago Tomas scored after a nice pass from Orel Mangala. The jubilation of the 400 VfB fans died down 2:37 minutes later when Adli headed in Kerem Demirbay’s free kick to make it 2:1. After that, Bayer controlled the game even more clearly. At times, VfB hardly ever got the ball in the long relays. Bayer just lacked determination against at least heartily defending Swabians. Only towards the end almost every shot was a hit. The game was only decided by Schick’s 19th goal of the season.

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