Bayer Leverkusen Europa League
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Bayer Leverkusen’s coach Xabi Alonso with his difference players Florian Wirtz (right) and Granit Xhaka. “Finals are for winning,” said team leader Xhaka
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The championship is secure, now Bayer Leverkusen is aiming for two more titles. The Werkself are favorites in the Europa League final this Wednesday against Atalanta Bergamo in Dublin. But the Italian team’s reputation precedes it.
Bayer Leverkusen are slight favorites going into the Europa League final against Atalanta Bergamo in Dublin this Wednesday evening. The German champions have not lost any of their 51 competitive matches so far this season and can achieve the treble with victories against Bergamo and three days later in the DFB Cup final in Berlin against 1. FC Kaiserslautern (in the WELT sports ticker).
The game can be seen live on RTL. The station starts at 8:15 p.m. with the preliminary reporting, which is led by Laura Papendick and expert Lothar Matthäus. With kick-off at 9 p.m., the commentator duo Marco Hagemann and Steffen Freund will take over. In parallel to the broadcast on free-to-air television, the game will also be shown live on RTL+, although there will be a fee for non-subscribers. You can follow the game free of charge in the WELT ticker. Click here to go to the ticker.
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Bergamo, which is certainly qualified for the Champions League, is considered an extremely unpleasant opponent. In the round of 16 two years ago, the Lombards won both games against Bayer. In the current competition, they eliminated Liverpool FC, among others, and thus denied coach Jürgen Klopp a farewell game on the international stage. AS Roma coach Daniele De Rossi said after the semi-final defeat against Bayer: “If there is a team that can hold a candle to Leverkusen in terms of physicality, structure and attitude, it is Gasperinis (Bergamo coach, editorial team) Atalanta.“
The day before the game, however, this apparently did not inspire much respect in the Bayer team. When asked at the press conference why everyone seemed so relaxed, Leverkusen midfield star Granit Xhaka replied with a wink: “We drink blood every morning.”
Wirtz will be able to play for Leverkusen
12,000 Bayer fans are on their way to Dublin. 9,000 Tifosi come from Bergamo, including mayor Giorgio Cori. The duel between Atalanta Bergamo and Bayer Leverkusen offers an interesting fact: it is the final in a European competition in which the participants come from cities with the smallest population in the history of the European Cup. Bergamo has 121,000 inhabitants and Leverkusen 165,748.
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While Bergamo is in a European final for the first time, it is Leverkusen’s third after winning the UEFA Cup in 1988 and losing in the Champions League in 2002. From Leverkusen’s perspective, there is good news with Florian Wirtz. After the offensive player had recently struggled with thigh problems, the all-clear was given the day before the duel against Atalanta. Wirtz is fit.
Triumph or tears? Leverkusen’s sporting fate in the Europa League will be decided in this stadium
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Leverkusen manager Simon said: “It was good that he came in for half an hour against Augsburg. It’s getting better every day. He was able to recharge his batteries in the phase beforehand. He goes into the two finals in top shape. And in the end we need him too.” With eleven goals and eleven assists in the championship season, coach Xabi Alonso would certainly have been reluctant to do without him.
