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In the stands, the injured Florian Wirtz also cheered: Bayer Leverkusen further increased the pressure on FC Bayern. The Werkself won 3: 1 (1: 1) against VfL Bochum and thus approaches up to three points to leaders from Munich at least one night.
Against strong Bochumer, who had hit Bayern sensationally away almost three weeks ago, Aleix García (20th), Victor Boniface (60th) and Amine Adli (87.) met for the master. In front of 30,210 spectators, Felix Passlack (26th) achieved the interim compensation for the team of Dieter Hecking, which remains with 20 points on the relegation place, but threatens to be displaced down at the weekend.
Bayer coach Xabi Alonso changed his starting eleven in comparison to the 4: 3 in Stuttgart before the international break: striker Boniface came for defensive player Robert Andrich. Hecking exchanged one day after the announcement of his remaining at the Revierklub in the event of a classroom compared to 1: 3 against Frankfurt Central defender Jakov Medic against wing racer Gerrit Holtmann.
“We have to be brave. We know that we are the blatant outsider,” said Hecking before the duel at “DAZN”. At least in the first few minutes of the game, Bochum defended defensive compact. Despite two center forwarders, the work elf’s lively and quick -starting work elf was missing. But after 20 minutes, the hosts and above all the inner ligament were able to cheer the game with his girlfriend and parents in the stands and celebrated an earlier return during the week. García fled the ball with a long -range shot in the corner.
Bochum was almost unimpressed, however, a quick answer to the deficit and suddenly even had longer possession phases in the Bayer half. After a serious header back pass from Granit Xhaka, Georgios Masouras initially failed to keeper Lukas Hradecky. But Passlack used the rebound on the edge of the box and converted into the left corner to compensate. After that, Leverkusen tried visibly, but at the latest at the edge of the box, VfL made the room so tight with a lot of self -confidence after the connection goal that there was no way through. In the offensive game, the master lacked precision. In the first section, there was hardly anything to see from the supposedly big difference between championship fight and relegation battle.
After the change of sides, the Werkelf initially showed a lot of momentum for the quick leadership. Boniface (47th) and Schick (49.) initially failed due to Timo Horn. On the other hand, Hradecky parried a counterattack by Matus Bero (54th). But then it was the Boniface, which was slipped into the starting eleven, who, after a cross pass from Piero Hincapie with his right knee, transported the ball completely freely into the goal from a short distance. When trying to compensate again, Ibrahima Sissoko slipped away from the Leverkusen penalty area (78.). After a cross pass from Garcia, Frimpong narrowly missed the preliminary decision. Substitute Adli finally took care of this shortly before the final whistle.