Berlin (AFP)
Bayer Leverkusen maintained its amazing unbeaten streak in 48 consecutive matches in various competitions, with a landslide victory over Eintracht Frankfurt 5-1 in the thirty-second stage of the German Football Championship.
Leverkusen, which was crowned champion of the league for the first time in its history, raised its score to 84 points at the top, 15 points ahead of its direct competitor Bayern Munich, which fell to third-placed Stuttgart 1-3.
Leverkusen played the match in the absence of its Spanish coach, Xabi Alonso, who was suspended for accumulating yellow cards, but this did not affect his players.
Alonso rested his brilliant playmaker Florian Wirtz, who celebrated his twenty-first birthday.
Veteran Swiss midfielder Granit Xhaka, who moved to Leverkusen at the beginning of this season, coming from Arsenal, opened the scoring with a long-range shot (12), but Frankfurt equalized through French striker Hugo Equitiki (32).
In the penultimate minute of the end of the first half, Czech striker Patrik Cech gave Leverkusen the lead again with a header.
Leverkusen added three goals in the second half, which were scored in turns by Argentine Ezequiel Palacios (58 from a penalty kick), Dutch full-back Jeremy Frimpong 5 minutes after coming on as a substitute (77), and Nigerian Victor Boniface (89 from a penalty kick).
The victory is Leverkusen’s first at its rival’s stadium in six years.
Leverkusen needs to avoid losing in the last two stages, thus becoming the first club in the history of the “Bundesliga” not to suffer any losses throughout the season.
Leverkusen appears to be a candidate for the treble, as it has taken a giant step towards reaching the final of the European League, “Europa League”, after returning from Rome with a valuable victory with two clean goals, before hosting the return match next Thursday. It has also reached the final of the German Cup, where it will meet Kaiserslautern from the second division in the match. 25 current.
In another match, Union Berlin became seriously threatened with relegation to the second division, after falling at home to Bochum 3-4 in an exciting match.
Union Berlin, which rose to the first division in 2019, is ranked fifteenth, after finishing fourth last season, which entitled it to participate in the Champions League.
Union Berlin has 30 points, two points ahead of Mainz XVI, which hosts Heidenheim.
It is noteworthy that the sixteenth-placed team will enter into a playoff with the third-placed team, to determine the identity of the team that will participate in the Elite League next season.
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