Bayer Leverkusen on Track for Bundesliga Undefeated Season

Already assured for three weeks of the title of German champion, Bayer Leverkusen won Sunday on the lawn of Eintracht Frankfurt 5 to 1, and is two matches away from an unprecedented feat in the Bundesliga, a full season without losing a match.

Thanks to this 48th consecutive match (all competitions) without defeat, Xabi Alonso’s men – suspended on Sunday at the Waldstadion in Frankfurt – total 84 points. They can still hope to reach 90 points at the end of the season with a victory in Bochum next week and at home against Augsburg in two weeks.

This would be the second best total behind Bayern’s 91 points under Jupp Heynckes in the 2012/13 season, and as many as Pep Guardiola’s first season on the Bayern bench (2013/14).

Leverkusen can above all become on May 18 at 5:30 p.m. the first German club to remain undefeated in the 34 matches of a Bundesliga season.

Since 1945 and in the five major European championships (England, Germany, Spain, France, Italy), only Perugia (30 matches in 1978/79, 2nd at the end of the season), AC Milan (34 in 1991/92 ), Juventus Turin (38 in 2011/12) and Arsenal (38 in 2003/04), achieved a similar feat.

Five matches for a perfect season

And there are five matches left in all competitions — the last two days of the Bundesliga, the final of the German Cup against Kaiserslautern, the semi-return of the Europa League against AS Roma and the possible final of C3 — to achieve a perfect season of 53 matches without defeat.

After three complicated matches in the wake of the German championship title (in London against West Ham, in Dortmund and against Stuttgart), Lukas Hradecky’s teammates got back into steamroller mode, winning in Italy in the semi-finals. first leg finals of C3 against AS Rome (2-0) on Thursday, and in Frankfurt three days later (5-1).

In this “sandwich match”, interspersed between the European semi-finals, they opened the scoring with Granit Xhaka (12th). After Hugo Ekitike’s equalizer (32nd, 3rd goal in three matches), they took the lead again, on a highlight from Frankfurt, with a header from Patrik Schick just before the break (44th).

In the second half, the Argentinian world champion Exequiel Palacios converted a penalty (58th) and Jeremie Frimpong ensured a quiet end to the match (77th), with a view to the second round against Roma on Thursday, and Victor Boniface scored his 19th goal of the season (the 12th in the Bundesliga), from the penalty spot (89th).

2024-05-05 18:02:00
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