Kobel outstanding
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To say goodbye to great emotions, Xabi Alonso did not give Bayer fans in his last home game and left Borussia Dortmund on Champions League hope. With the 4: 2 (2: 1) success at the dethroned master from Leverkusen, BVB continues to have one point behind SC Freiburg and fourth place.
Dortmund can pass the Freiburgers in the last home game with a win against Holstein Kiel, who then cannot win their home game against Eintracht Frankfurt. After all, a draw against Kiel extends to a safe Europa League place.
In front of 30,000 visitors in the completely sold out BayArena, Jeremie Frimpong (31st minute) and Jonas Hofmann (90.+2) scored the goals for the hosts, who will complete the season as second in the table. Julian Brandt (33.), Julian Rerson (43.), Karim Adeyemi (73.) and Serhou Guirassy (77th) scored for BVB. The result was too high one or two goals.
Alonso, who announced his premature end of the work at Bayer on Friday, knew that great emotional cinema would wait for him in the Bayarena. He previously spoke of mixed feelings. In the event of goosebumps and imperial weather, fans not only paid their extremely popular trainers thanks and respect. They also let him live with chants and transparent. “Xabi, Xabi”, it sounded through the arena. Alonso was visibly touched at the official farewell before the game.
In the game of the two top teams, the main thing for the Dortmund, previously undefeated in seven league games, was about continuing the previously successful catch-up and securing international starting place. Coach Niko Kovac only changed his team after 4-0 against Wolfsburg in one position and ordered the double goal scorer ADEYEMI into the starting eleven.
But the hosts initially stated the tone with a lot of pressure and force, as if the coach wanted to give the coach as soon as possible. The team already has the team in their pockets. Alonso made some changes. Goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky was used again as well as Robert Andrich. The national player also had the greatest chance until then, but BVB keeper Gregor Kobel was able to parry his long-range shot.
BVB goalkeeper Kobel makes Bayer Leverkusen despair
The Leverkusen Sturm run was rewarded after a good half hour when Frimpong after Florian Wirtz scored 1-0 and immediately sprinted to the coaching bench and jumped arms in Alonsos. But the Dortmund answer followed promptly. Less than two minutes later, Brandt met Adeyemi to equalize after passport, shortly before the break Ryerson scored the 2-1 for the guests.
Overall, BVB was able to thank goalkeeper Kobel until then. He had preserved his team from other counter hits after the chances of Nathan Tella (27/40.), Wirtz (41.) and Amine Adli (45.+5) and was also lucky during an aluminum goal by Adli in the after -half of the first half on his side.
In the high -class game, despite summer temperatures, both teams still had a number of good opportunities. In the end, the Dortmund were more effective: Adeyemi used a counterattack and scored to 3: 1, Guirassy scored 4-1 shortly afterwards in his 100th Bundesliga game. Hofmann shortened to 2: 4.