Gallige Hoffenheim gives Bayer Leverkusen false start

In the duel of two round-fired teams, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim turns an early behind at Bayer 04 Leverkusen at the start of the Bundesliga.

The newcomers Fisnik Asllani (25th minute) and Tim Lemperle (52nd) made a victory on Saturday from 0-1 by Jarell Quansah (6th) and gave Leverkusen’s new trainer Erik ten HAG a sobering Bundesliga debut.

Both on the offensive and in the defenisve, Leverkusen revealed after the upheaval in the summer with the departure of his “double axis” around Lukas Hradecky, Jonathan Tah, Granit Xhaka, Jeremie Frimpong and especially Florian Wirtz, despite 14 entrances in summer.

Fast exclamation mark from Hoffenheim

Hoffenheim from the kick -off showed where the trip in the game of the 1st matchday could go. The guests cheekily attacked the favorites in his arena with seven new additions in the starting eleven. After two minutes, Leverkusen’s new number one Mark Flekken was not really gone under pressure.

The ball came back like a boomerang. Lemperle didn’t torch for long. His shot from 14 meters clapped on the post. Even if Leverkusen took a 1-0 lead from five meters after Grimaldo free kick with a Quansah head ball, this did not clear the guests of coach Christian Ilzer.

Leverkusen without a clear plan

Well -sorted against the ball and quickly and straightforward forward, the Kraichgauer made the better figure over long distances of the game. In the case of Leverkusen, there was no speed and creativity, so that all three shots on the goal in round one resulted from standard situations without exception.

But both with a free kick flank deflected by Koki Machida (33rd) as well as Piero Hincapiés (43rd) attempt from four meters after a cross from Aleix Garcia, TSG captain Oliver Baumann was strong in the goal in his 490th Bundesliga game.

Touré makes a lot of stir for Hoffenheim

On the other hand, this looked much more smooth on the offensive at Hoffenheim. Bazoumana Touré in particular over the left and Lemperle in the center always embarrassed the not always saddle -resistant Leverkusen defense. And so the compensation was the minimum wage. Touré used to the left in the penalty area asllani. He didn’t torch for long and made the ball into the short corner from an acute angle over Flekken’s shoulder.

With two more opportunities by Vladimir Coufal (36th) and Touré (45.+3), in 1899 it already indicated that this should not have been all. And because the guests just continued to ensure that in round two and Leverkusen did not get going at all, the lead for Hoffenheim was almost inevitable.

Lemperle-cracker To lead for the TSG

Asllani claimed a long ball from the defense against Quansah. Lemperle came from the back and shot the outstanding ball from 25 meters precisely to the bottom left of the post for 2: 1.

Now good advice was expensive at the Ten Hag team. With Ernest Poku, the coach had brought one of the highly assessed newcomers, but Leverkusen obviously had no ideas that the guest defense should be played apart. There was also a lack of speed and mobility between the lines.

No Bayer shot on the goal in halftime two

Not a single shot on the goal of the hosts came to Baumann’s goal in halftime. Goal scorer Patrik Schick was completely in the air in the center. 17 ball contacts and zero degrees of the Czech were symbolically for Leverkusen offensive game.

Only one attack showed roughly the potential that could be in the workself, as a chic for Grimaldo on the left and Nathan Tella shot the flat cross on the outside of the outside (78.). What looked like a final offensive after the signal was only a colored swab on an otherwise rather gray performance of the hosts.

Ten HAG brought two of the many newcomers with Christian Kofane and Claudio Echeverri for the last five minutes. But neither on the goal of the goal, let alone the result changed.

Leverkusen in Bremen, Hoffenheim meets Frankfurt

Leverkusen has to go to Werder Bremen on the 2nd Bundesliga match day (Saturday, 3:30 p.m.). Hoffenheim welcomes Eintracht Frankfurt to the first home game of the season at the same time.