Bayer Leverkusen won a spectacular shock against Frankfurt (2-1) on Saturday for the 8th day of the German championship, while Leipzig disposed of Mainz (0-2).
Easy winner of Mainz (0-2) away on Saturday, RB Leipzig moved to the top of the German championship, awaiting Bayern Munich’s match against Stuttgart in the early evening (6:30 p.m.), while Leverkusen is defeated by Frankfurt (2-1).
After seven Bundesliga matches played at the start of the season, RB Leipzig has 17 points, three points more than Bayern, who remain in three consecutive matches without a victory before the international window (draws against Leverkusen and Frankfurt, defeat at Aston Villa).
On Saturday, Marco Rose’s men made the difference in the first period thanks to goals from Xavi Simons (20th) and captain Willi Orban (37th).
On Matchday 2, Leipzig ended German champions Bayer Leverkusen’s 35-match unbeaten Bundesliga run, but dropped points along the way against Union Berlin and Sankt Pauli (each time 0). -0). The eastern German club, however, is the last, along with Bayern, to be undefeated in the Bundesliga.
If the course in the league is almost perfect, it is less the case in the Champions League with defeats in Madrid against Atlético (2-1) and at home against Juventus Turin (3-2), after having led to each time to the score. On Wednesday, another big European player awaits Leipzig, the Liverpool Reds, to try to score their first points.
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After two consecutive draws in the league in Munich (1-1) and against promoted Kiel (2-2), Bayer Leverkusen moved forward again on Saturday, winning a spectacular shock against Eintracht Frankfurt (2 -1).
With a penalty awarded to Leverkusen after five minutes, missed by Victor Boniface, another penalty given to Frankfurt (each time with the assistance of VAR), succeeded by Omar Marmoush ten minutes later (1-0, 14th), The first quarter of an hour at the BayArena set the tone for a first period going from one goal to another.
At fault on the penalty conceded due to a very slight contact on Marmoush, Robert Andrich caught himself in the 25th minute, at the conclusion of a pinball movement between him, Amine Adli and Martin Terrier.
More pressing in the second half, the Werkself, the factory eleven (nickname of the club team founded in 1904 by the chemist Bayer), did the pressing to force the decision. Victor Boniface missed the target with an empty goal on a perfect cross from Terrier, before giving Leverkusen the victory in the 72nd minute on a cross from Florian Wirtz, left as a precaution on the bench at the start of the match by Xabi Alonso after his injury with Germany on Monday against the Netherlands.
Leverkusen travels to Brest on Wednesday (6:45 p.m.) for its third Champions League match, hoping to confirm its first two successes in Rotterdam against Feyenoord (4-0) and at home against AC Milan (1-0).
