A penalty goal, in the added time of the first half, needing the reaffirmation of the VAR, transformed by Florian Wirtz, unstuck Bayer Leverkusen’s visit to Berlin that added another victory, the ninth in a row in the Bundesliga and caresses the first title of League of its history.
Based on records, legendary records, unmatched, Xabi Alonso’s team is close to breaking a barrier and achieving an unprecedented feat. Bayer Leverkusen, which had its highest five runners-up finishes in the competition, has the trophy in hand this time. There are already forty-one games without losing.
With six games left until the end of the year, they are sixteen points ahead of Bayern Munich, who stumbled again, this time in Heidenheim where they underlined their resignation for the championship that has been theirs for the last eleven seasons.
Two points separate the Spanish coach’s team from success. On the next date, against Werder Bremen at the Bay Arena, he can achieve the goal if Bayern crashes again.
It was not easy at the Alte Foersterei where Union, on the rise since the arrival of Croatian Nenad Bjelica to their bench, faced their rival.
Bayer Leverkusen, which has 24 wins and 4 draws in the current Bundesliga campaign and is in the Cup final, where it has another five games without losing plus the eight in the Europa League, could only unblock the clash when he was left with one more player and thanks to a penalty that Wirtz converted.
The ninth straight victory could have come sooner. In the boots of Alex Grimaldo or in a header from also Spaniard Borja Iglesias. All within the first quarter of an hour, when the visiting team came out in a rush.
Grimaldo had another one on the verge of half an hour but Union was supported by the inspiration of Frederik Ronnow.
Union Berlin took the pressure off and dared to threaten the leader. Robin Gosens, with a header, was the first threat and the next for Yorbe Vertessen who narrowly missed out.
It was in the addition when everything happened. Robin Gosens saw the second yellow. He left the Union with ten and from the foul, on the side, came the penalty that Christopher Trimmel committed with his hand. It was executed by Florian Wirtz who put Leverkusen ahead.
The game declined in the second half, although Leverkusen was able to expand and seal it with the opportunity to Amine Adli and another from Nathan Tella, a quarter of an hour before closing.
– Datasheet
0 – Union Berlin: Frederik Ronnow; Danilho Doekhi, Kevin Vogt, Diogo Leite; Christopher Trimmel (Josip Juranovic, m.63), Lucas Tousart, Andras Schafer (Alex Kral, m.63), Rani Khedira (Aissa Laidouni, m.62), Robin Gosens; Brenden Aaronson (Benedict Hollerbach, m.79) and Yorbe Vertessen (Mikkel Kaufmann, m.46).
1 – Bayer Leverkusen: Lukas Hradecky; Odilon Kossounou, Jonathan Tah, Piero Hincapie; Nathan Tella (Jremie Frimpong, m.79), Robert Andrich, Granit Xhaka, Alex Grimaldo; Adam Hlozek (Amine Adli, m.32), Florian Wirtz y Borja Iglesias (Victor Boniface, m.67).
Goals: 0-1, m.45+8: Florian Wirtz, penalty.
Referee: Benjamin Brand. He sent off Robin Gosens for a double yellow (m.45 + 3) and cautioned Lucas Tousart, from Union Berlin, and Amine Adli and Robert Andrich, from Bayer Leverkusen.
Incidents: match of the twenty-eighth day of the Bundesliga played at the Alte Foersterei stadium in Berlin. EFE
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