Hail, thunder and gusts of wind
Violent storm interrupts DFB Cup game
15.08.2025 – 6:56 p.m.Reading time: 1 min.
The first competitive game of the new Bayer coach at the fourth division club Großaspach is still less than 20 minutes, so it is already interrupted. Because of a storm, the teams have to go to the cabins.
A summer thunderstorm has confused Erik Ten Hag’s competitive premiere as a coach of Bayer Leverkusen. The first round game in the DFB Cup of the Bundesliga club at the regional league team SG Sonnenhof Großaspach was interrupted after almost 20 minutes. Referee Daniel Schlager sent both teams to the cabins at 0-0 for more than a quarter of an hour.
Violent rain had already started a few minutes before the game. Later there were hail, thunder and gusts of wind.
For ten HAG it is the first competitive game as a Bayer coach. The Dutch, once under contract with Ajax Amsterdam and Manchester United, followed the former master coach Xabi Alonso in Leverkusen this summer. Ten HAG has a large change in the Double winner of 2024. A number of top performers, including the German international Florian Wirtz and Jonathan Tah, have left the Werkself during the current transfer period.