The night in Leverkusen was long. The 20,000 people who remained on the ‘green’ two hours later!!! of the end of the match and ‘forced’ players and staff to return to the ‘ring’, like the bullfighters on ‘big gate’ days. The box became a sort of ‘City Hall balcony’ from which all the ‘heroes’ were greeted, one by one.
And in Leverkusen the sound sounded… Long live Spain!
Through the corridors of the ‘BayArena’ – you only need to see the ‘bath’ that Xabi Alonso took at the press conference – beer flowed. The 120 years of waiting to win the first Bundesliga in its history had been worth it.
Celebrate with German beer. You have to enjoy the moment. This is going very fast
Borja Iglesis, Bayer Leverkusen striker
So much so that even Xabi himself let his guard down: “Celebrate with German beer. You have to enjoy the moment. This goes very fast.” “They don’t have a bad time in Germany, we have to learn,” Borja Iglesias confessed, laughing, to MARCA.
Going for the triplet
“Monday, day off,” Alonso exclaimed. Today the squad will rest. The ‘rúa’ and the official visits – the mayor, Uwe Richrath, experienced the party ‘in situ’ in the locker room – remain until the end of the season. They are scheduled for after the Cup final: Bayer Leverkusen will face Kaiserslautern, of the Second Division, on May 25.
Xabi Alonso after winning the Bundesliga: “It is incredible to enter the history of Leverkusen”
The ‘truce’ will not last long. Tomorrow, Tuesday, back to the ‘pit’. Xabi doesn’t want distractions. The match against West Ham (Thursday) is just around the corner and the ‘Company Eleven’ will try to make good on the 2-0 win in the first leg to advance to the semi-finals of the Europa League for the second consecutive year.
And the possibility of making a triplet is, increasingly, more feasible. There is another important aspect at the motivational level. It is not a title, but in Leverkusen they have set the goal of finishing the season undefeated: so far they have played 43 games (38 wins and five draws) and the ‘counter’ does not stop going up.
2024-04-15 09:01:29
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