Lucas Alario (left) of Leverkusen and Felix Uduokhai of Augsburg.
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Alario converted a penalty for a hand game after a quarter of an hour of play. Shortly after the break, the home team did not guard a quick counterattack and the midfielder Daniel Caligiuri equalized, but a quarter of an hour before the end Alario ran to the center from a direct kick and decided with his head. In the end, Diaby sealed the result with a shot into an empty goal after a desperate attempt by the guests to equalize with the goalkeeper in the attack.
Leverkusen was still missing the injured striker Patrik Schick. For the same reason, midfielder Jan Morávek was not ready on the other side, only goalkeeper Tomáš Koubek and defender Marek Suchý spent the match on the bench.
Leverkusen holds the invincibility in the Bundesliga, after the first three draws he has now won for the second time in a row and moved up to fourth place. On Thursday, Bayer will present in the 2nd round of the European League in Eden from 21:00, in the first round he outclassed Nice 6: 2 last week. The Prague team entered the competition with a 1: 3 defeat on the field of the Israeli team Beer Sheva.
German League – Round 5, overtime: Leverkusen – Augsburg 3-1 (16. z pen. A 74. Alario, 90. + 4 Diaby – 51. Caligiuri).