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DORTMUND, Germany– Bayer Leverkusen began the year with a huge increase to its hopes of safeguarding the Bundesliga title by beating a diminished Borussia Dortmund 3-2 on Friday.
Nathan Tella scored after simply 25 seconds of the very first Bundesliga video game of 2025 and Leverkusen scored on all of its very first 3 shots versus Dortmund, which was missing out on 6 ill gamers and needed to field a makeshift protective line.
Leverkusen relocated to one point off league leader Bayern Munich, which has its own injury issues ahead of dealing with Borussia Moenchengladbach on Saturday.
Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso had the ability to commemorate a win over his previous Genuine Madrid colleague Nuri Sahin, whose sixth-placed Dortmund might drop to 10th by the end of this weekend, depending upon other groups’ outcomes.
” We’re certainly extremely pleased, extremely happy. Winning here is exceptionally difficult,” Alonso informed broadcaster DAZN. “We did it with this discipline and with this excellent battling mindset to keep going up until the eleventh hour.”
Patrik Schick scored two times in the very first half to relocate to 11 objectives in his last 7 Bundesliga video games, making sure Leverkusen hasn’t missed out on hurt striker Victor Boniface.
” We’re seeing an incredibly Patrik with his terrific will to enhance and we require him,” Alonso stated.
Leverkusen’s Nathan Tella, left, commemorates after scoring his side’s opening objective throughout the German Bundesliga soccer match in between Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen at the Signal-Iduna Park in Dortmund, Germany, Friday, Jan. 10, 2025. Credit: AP/Martin Meissner
Dortmund had 70% belongings however its threadbare defense had a hard time to handle fast counterattacks. Jamie Gittens’ early objective kept Dortmund in the contest and when Leverkusen’s Edmond Tapsoba handed out a charge with a negligent obstacle, Serhou Guirassy transformed it in the 79th minute to put Leverkusen under pressure at the surface.
A break out of disease implied Dortmund lacked gamers such as midfielder Emre Can and main protectors Nico Schlotterbeck and Waldemar Anton, on top of continuous injury concerns.
Of the back 4, Yannik Lührs and Almugera Kabar were beginning a Bundesliga video game for the very first time, Yan Couto was on his 4th league start of the season and Julian Ryerson, generally a right back, was covering an unknown center back function.
Source: NewsDay.
