This Saturday, Xabi Alonso's Bayer Leverkusen signed an agonizing 2-1 victory against Hoffenheim with goals from Robert Andrich and Patrick Schick, in the 88th and 91st minutes, which helped them overcome a goal from Maximilian Beier that put the team ahead. visiting team in the 33rd.
The Bundesliga leader plays as if he did not contemplate the possibility of defeat. He insists on his style as if he knew that at some point he will be successful and, in part because of that, they have become the team that scores the most goals in the last minutes in the German league championship.
They remain undefeated in all competitions and are one step away from winning the first title in their history in the Bundesliga.
Hoffenheim took the lead in the 33rd minute with their first attempt on goal through Maximilian Beier, who beat Lukas Hradecky with a shot inside the area after a one-two with Wout Weghorst.
Until that moment, after about five initial minutes in which Hoffenheim had managed to put the ball in the opposite half although without reaching the goal, Leverkusen had commanded the field and had constantly circulated the ball in search of spaces to reach the goal. area that I couldn't find.
The clearest chance for Leverkusen before conceding the goal came in the 11th minute, when Florian Wirtz attracted at least four defenders and touched the ball behind for Patrick Schick, who finished low from the crescent, but Oliver Baumann stopped the goal. spherical without major problems.
He had also tried it with a couple of shots from afar by Granit Xhaka (m.18) and Wirtz (m.19), against a Hoffenheim that defended its area fiercely.
Leverkusen did not lose patience, they waited for spaces to open up and there was a phase in which Hoffenheim was completely bottled up, unable to find a way out when they recovered the ball.
It was necessary to wait until the 25th minute for Hoffenheim to play again in the opposite half, in an advance that ended in a harmless cross that was lost behind the local goal.
Then Beier's goal came, almost out of nowhere, and the game entered another phase. Before the break, Hoffenheim had two chances, a too-focused shot by Kramaric on a counterattack in the 41st minute and another deflected one by Weghorst in the 43rd minute.
Leverkusen pressed before the break. Jonas Hoffmann had three shots from a good position. Xhaka almost surprised Baumann with a lob from distance and Robert Andrich headed into the outside of the net.
The second half was an offensive barrage from Leverkusen and a defensive battle from Hoffenheim, who only sporadically managed to create a counterattack.
Baumann prevented the tie with good saves several times, in the 54th minute against Wirtz and in the 76th against Schick, and in the 88th minute the crossbar denied Borja Iglesias his first goal for Leverkusen.
Almost immediately afterward came the tying play. Wirtz crossed from the right, Tah headed the ball down and Andrich scored with a shot from outside the area.
The game was not over and in the 91st minute, Schick, from Tella's cross, scored the winning goal from close range.
2 - Bayer Leverkusen: Hradecky; Tapsoba (Stasinic, 87), Tah, Hincapie (Borja Churches, 72); Frimpong (Tella, 87), Andrich, Xhaka, Grimaldo; Hoffmann (Adly, 58), Schick, Wirtz.
1 - Hoffenheim: Baumann; Kabak, Grillitsch, Drexler; Kaderabek, Stach, Tohumcu (Geiger, 73), Jurasek; Kramaric (Prömel, 58); Weghorst (Bulter, 78), Beier (Bebou, 73).
Goals: 0-1, min.33: Beier. 1-1, min. 88: Andrich. 2-1, min. 91: Schick.
Referee: Deniz Aytekin. He admonished Drexler.
Incidents: Bundesliga match played at the BayArena in Leverkusen.
