Lost Bayer Leverkusen take three points in the 94th minute in an agonizing victory.
He Bayer Leverkusen manages to beat the entire Bayern team Augsburg who held firm throughout the duel, until Alejandro Grimaldo and Exequiel Palacios (90+4 minutes) they broke the ice on a cold football day and with few goals.
Box Xabi Alonso arrived with victims for a fight at WWK Arena in connection with the African Cup. Well, he couldn’t count on the starter in the back, Edmond Tapsobawhich is part of the combined Burkina FasoBye Amin Adli was called Morocco And Odilon Kosunu To Ivory Coast. As if that weren’t enough, one of the stars of the foreign team, Victor Bonifaceleft the game with a groin injury.
Despite this, the leader knew what was coming and managed to string together a dominant first fifteen minutes with a couple of goal-seeking chances. DamenAugsburg goalkeeper.
Grimaldohit the crossbar with his left foot from the edge of the penalty area (27′) and Robert Andrichwho finished off a cross to the left post with a superb intervention Damen (34′), they realized two of the most striking moments of the match at the end of the first forty-five minutes of the game.
The heads were missing, but not the cold. At -3 degrees they were in the city Augsburg.
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He kept pressing Bayerwho couldn’t see the door. Three incidents in a row prolonged the fear in the local defense. Exequiel Palacios shot from the edge of the penalty area over the crossbar (49 minutes) and Granit Xhaka He took a corner near the penalty spot, but his header went wide of the left post (55′). He also tried Patrick Schick with header (59 feet). The goal was not achieved.
In the 61st minute, one of the fundamental moments of the Bayer team came onto the field. The thoughts are over. Xabi Alonso replaces Florian Wirtz.
20 feet left and Bayer He flirted with a goal against. The team’s team had up to two goals disallowed. Bavariawho put the man between the ropes Leverkusen it was found excessively tilted upward. What does a leader do, wow.
The last minutes of the match turned into an absolute attack by the guests on the Damen goal. The Augsburg wall more than withstood Bayer Leverkusen’s onslaught for 94 minutes.
But the goal came. It was the last minute of extended time (+5), and after an excellent collective play the ball reached Grimaldo, who, from the left flank, accompanied by music, played the penalty so that it reached Exequiel Palacios and score the winning goal (0-1, 94 min.).
Thus, Bayer Leverkusen managed to get three points in a very difficult match, besieging the Augsburg goal for more than ninety minutes. Perseverance paid off.