Bayer Leverkusen beat Werder Bremen 5-0 at the BayArena and for the first time became undefeated champion of the German Bundesliga, breaking Bayern Munich’s hegemony of eleven consecutive titles. The team led by Spanish coach Xabi Alonso and in which world champion Exequiel Palacios from Tucumán was a starter, was sixteen points ahead of Thomas Tuchel’s team, with five games remaining.
After winning the UEFA Cup in 1988 and the DFB Pokal in 1993, with the local title Leverkusen put an end to a series of five runners-up finishes (1997, 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2011) and five lost finals in the last thirty years. one years Their campaign in this Bundesliga has been devastating: 25 wins, four draws. 74 goals for and only 19 against.
At 25 minutes, Nigerian Victor Boniface opened the scoring with a penalty that the VAR warned for an infringement by Argentine Julian Malatini on Jonas Hofmann. The champion continued to create situations in the second half and, at 15, the Swiss Granit Xhaka took a tremendous left foot shot from about 25 meters that brought the title closer to Bayer Leverkusen.
The scorer Florian Wirtz converted the third at 23, and at the end, at 38, Wirtz himself repeated by defining inside the area after a great assist from the Argentine Exequiel Palacios and at 45 he completed the third on his personal account to crown the party in Germany.
