Last Updated: March 03, 2024, 23:35 IST
Alejandro Grimaldo, (second left) celebrates after scoring his Bayer Leverkusen’s second objective. (AP Photo)
Bayer Leverkusen managed giant intervals of the competition as they took one other step towards their first ever Bundesliga title with 10 video games left to play.
Bayer Leverkusen tightened their grip on the high of the Bundesliga with a 2-0 victory over 10-man Cologne to drag 10 factors away from Bayern Munich.
Xabi Alonso’s facet had been handed the chance to stretch their lead over Bayern after the serial champions faltered once more, solely managing a 2-2 draw at Freiburg on Friday night time.
“Ten points are a lot,” stated Leverkusen’s Swiss midfielder Granit Xhaka.
“But it’s not over yet. There are still many, many more points to play for and as long as it’s not decided mathematically, we cannot say that it’s done. We have to keep working and pick up a few more points as a team.”
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Leverkusen, who’re on a German record-extending 34 video games unbeaten in all competitions, made the brief journey to Cologne.
They ran out deserved winners of a feisty Rhine derby, regardless of a spirited effort by the Bundesliga strugglers who performed with 10 males from the fifteenth minute.
The sport’s opener was crafted within the thirty eighth minute by Alejandro Grimaldo. His low cross from the left was flicked on by Patrik Schick and stabbed in from shut vary by Jeremie Frimpong, for his eighth league objective of the season.
Grimaldo locked up the factors within the 73rd minute, squeezing the ball in on the close to submit after tremendous work by influence substitute Amine Adli.
Forward Jan Thielmann was proven a straight crimson within the fifteenth minute after raking his studs down Xhaka’s Achilles.
That determination raised the temperature contained in the RheinEnergieStadion, with referee Tobias Stieler confronted with a Cologne workforce and 40,000 residence followers in rebellious temper within the early spring sunshine.
Cologne, who occupy the relegation play-off place and stay eight factors adrift of security, adjusted properly after the crimson card and had been unfortunate to twice hit the submit.
But Leverkusen managed giant intervals of the competition as they took one other step towards their first ever Bundesliga title with 10 video games left to play.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is revealed from a syndicated news company feed – AFP)
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