With the help of a serious mistake by Mainz goalkeeper Robin Zentner and thanks to veteran Robert Andrich, Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen took another step towards their first championship and set a record. In the hard-fought 2:1 (1:1) on Friday evening against relegation candidate FSV Mainz 05, the league leaders remained unbeaten in a competitive game for the 33rd time in a row – no Bundesliga team had ever achieved that before.
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But the victory against Rheinhessen came about in a strange way. Mainz keeper Zentner put a harmless long-range shot from Andrich (68th minute), who was making his 100th game for the Werkself, into the net. Zentner had already looked unhappy when Granit Xhaka took the early lead at Bayer (3rd). The courageous Mainz team of new coach Bo Henriksen were able to quickly compensate for this mishap through Dominik Kohr (8th). In the 80th minute, Mainz substitute Jessic Ngankam was also shown a red card for serious foul play.
Thanks to the renewed success, Leverkusen’s lead over second-placed Bayern Munich is a whopping eleven points, at least until Saturday. Then Bayern have to play against RB Leipzig. The record champions also broke the previous record of 32 competitive games without defeat between December 2019 and September 2020.
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