Bayer Leverkusen secured the championship with a 5-0 win against Werder Bremen on Sunday. With five match days to go, the team can no longer be caught and is German champion for the first time. This is how the media comments on the success.
“Kicker”: Leverkusen’s triumph is an extraordinary one. Also because the road there is paved with records. The result of 79 out of 87 possible points after 29 match days represents a new Bundesliga high. Being undefeated at this point in the season also means a new record. Bayern held both records until Sunday. Having replaced the subscription champions not only as title winners, but also in these two categories, illustrates the outstandingly high level of the Werkself, which no one would have believed they could achieve before this season: Bayer 04 are by far the strongest team in the league.
“Latest Baden News”: “What coach Xavier Alonso’s team offered this season was simply exorbitant. You’ve never seen anything better in all of Europe. To whom is it primarily to thank? When a coach takes a team from a relegation zone in less than two seasons leads to the championship, only he can be a builder and architect or whatever. One thing is certain: it is Alonso’s team, it works according to his ideas, breathes his spirit, plays his football – and so, above all, it is his championship. that she just won.”
“Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger”: “If Xabi Alonso keeps the team together and brings in the best of the players who are now eager to link their fate with that of the miracle coach, there is a lot to suggest that Leverkusen will be even better next season. Good news for them Bundesliga, which urgently needs competition at the top. Unlike the VW factory club in Wolfsburg, which burns absurd amounts of money and manages to ensure that no one is interested in it, Leverkusen has created one of the most exciting teams in Bundesliga history Triumph – and a fitting end to the Munich title series.”
Bayer 04 Leverkusen’s first championship title also made international headlines
Spain:
“Brand”: “Xabi I. of Germany: Bayer Leverkusen conquers the first Bundesliga championship in its history. What neither Borussia Dortmund nor RB Leipzig managed at the time, Bayer Leverkusen managed to do: end the tyranny of Bayern.”
“Sports world”: “Bayer Leverkusen under Xabi Alonso is already a legend.”
“As”: “Bayer Leverkusen is champion. Xabi is champion. Football is champion. After eleven years of Bayern’s tyranny, the king has changed in the Bundesliga for the first time.”
“Sport”: “Xabi Alonso rules the Bundesliga with Leverkusen. A year and a half to bury 119 years of history. A year and a half to lead a broken, identityless and league-worn team into a dimension that it had only dreamed of in its wildest dreams. A year and a half to tell all of Germany that there is something more in the Bundesliga than Bayern.”
Great Britain:
“The Guardian”: “Especially because of Bayer’s corporate support, the Leverkusen team hardly inspires any greater sympathy among the German football audience. The plastic label continues to haunt them. So perhaps the greatest achievement of Alonso’s team this season was to create something so undeniably human. (…) A new reality took shape, a separation between past torments and present fantasies, between the Leverkusen that exists now and the Leverkusen that will never exist again.”
Beer shower for the master coach: Ex-Vizekusen celebrates the title here
“Independent”: Bayer Leverkusen wins the championship and ends Bayern Munich’s streak after eleven titles. Leverkusen was bottom in the second half of the table when Xabi Alonso took over the team in October 2022. The Spaniard led the club to a historic title in his first full season as coach (of a professional team).”
“The Sun”: “Fans rushed to celebrate before the final whistle as Bayern Leverkusen sealed their first-ever Bundesliga title with a 5-0 win over Werder Bremen. Incredibly, Xabi Alonso’s men ended Bayern Munich’s 12-year grip on the crown without even to lose one game in the entire Bundesliga season.”
Switzerland:
“Tagesanzeiger”: “The Bundesliga has rarely seen a better champion. Leverkusen says goodbye to Vizekusen with the 5-0 win against Bremen and wants to gain financial muscle so that this title does not remain a one-off. (…) The club has the league off the yoke of FC Bayern Munich freed from the paralyzing superiority of an FCB that had recently won the title eleven times in a row.”
“Blick”: “Undefeated to the championship trophy. Wirtz hat-trick and Xhaka’s dream goal secure Leverkusen the title. Bayern’s dominance in the Bundesliga is over. At 7:19 p.m. all the dams finally break in the BayArena: Bayer Leverkusen beats Werder Bremen 5-0 and wins “It’s the first Bundesliga title in the club’s history for Leverkusen. The joy of the team, the staff and the fans is indescribable! Thousands storm the pitch and cheer with their heroes.”
France:
“The Team”: “Bayer Leverkusen didn’t tremble. Unbeaten in all competitions since the start of the season (43 games), Xabi Alonso’s team converted their first match point on Sunday against Werder Bremen (5-0) and made history with their first championship title in Germany. The Winning the championship after eleven years of Bavarian hegemony is one thing, winning it with five match days to go is another thing.
“The Parisian”: “A historic achievement to which coach Xabi Alonso, who has completely revolutionized this team, is anything but a stranger.”
Italy:
“Corriere dello Sport”: “A success waited for 120 years. (…) Xabi Alonso’s team completed today an extraordinary journey with 25 wins and 4 draws in 29 league games: 79 points, sixteen more than Bayern Munich and Stuttgart, the We were able to win their games yesterday, which makes today’s triumph in the BayArena even better.”
“Corriere della Sera”: “Bayer celebrates. A letter changes, but that changes the world. The “Neverkusen”, so called because they have never won anything significant in their history (just two cups in 120 years), defeated Werder Bremen 5-0 and celebrated in front of their fans thanks to goals from Boniface, Xhaka and Wirtz (hat trick).”
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