Paris. Bayer Leverkusen suffered a painful and unexpected setback in the defense of its Bundesliga title by drawing (2-2) against the newly promoted Kiel after having won 2-0, this Saturday on the sixth round of the Bundesliga.
Bayer is now fifth, two points behind the leader, Bayern Munich, before the Bavarian club’s trip to Eintracht Frankfurt (2nd) on Sunday.
And winning this Saturday at Werder Bremen 1-0, Freiburg rose to third place, one point ahead of Leipzig (4th) who visits Heidenheim (8th) on Sunday.
Author of the winning goal against AC Milan in the Champions League on Tuesday, Nigerian striker Victor Boniface opened the scoring in the fourth minute for Xabi Alonso’s Leverkusen, imitated shortly after by Jonas Hofmann (8). But Kiel got into the game thanks to a goal from Max Geschwill before the break (45+5) and took a point from the BayArena after a penalty scored by Jann-Fiete Arp (69).
Two goals against per game
Accustomed to winning in the extremes Last season, Bayer did not have the last word on this occasion. Xabi Alonso’s team has conceded 12 goals in six Bundesliga games, half of the 24 they conceded all of last season. Kiel, for its part, adds a valuable point in its race for permanence and leaves Bochum at bottom, which lost at home to Wolfsburg (3-1).
“We were champions because we entered every game like crazy. We took the lead too early and too easily, but today I didn’t see the will to kill the game. You should never relax with a 2-0 lead, even if it was against Kiel , AC Milan or Bayern,” lamented Lukas Hradecky, Leverkusen’s goalkeeper and captain.
Far from the 7-1 they inflicted on Celtic in Champions On Tuesday, Borussia Dortmund lost 2-1 this Saturday in Berlin. A penalty from Kevin Vogt (26) and a goal from Yorbe Vertessen (45) led to Union’s victory despite the loss of Norwegian international Julian Ryerson (62), a former player of the capital team.
Borussia, finalist in the last Champions League, is seventh and could be six points behind Bayern if the Bavarians win.
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