Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen celebrates its historic year with another victory and the ‘Salad Bowl’

He Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen It closed the 2023-24 Bundesliga, where it made history by becoming the German champion for the first time, with another victory, extending its unbeaten streak to 51. He Leverkusenwho were looking for a treble and finished the Bundesliga unbeaten, lost 2-1 Augsburg and then he celebrated his dream year, as he received the ‘Meisterschale’, the traditional ‘Salad Bowl’, the trophy that awards the winner of the German championship. Now two finals await him, on Wednesday the Europa League match Atalanta and on Saturday the German Cup against Kaiserslautern (2nd).

The one in Xabi Alonso They ended the hegemony of Bavariawho have won every Bundesliga since 2012-13 and never finished second: the Stuttgart is the one that, with one point more than the Munich team, was declared runner-up. And it was him Bavaria closed the championship falling 4-2 match Hoffenheim and the Stuttgart disrupted (4-0) the Borussia M’gladbach.

Xabi Alonso dhe left two of his main pieces, Florian Wirtz (which appear in physical problems) and Granite Xhaka starting from the bench. Wirtz came in the 63rd minute Amine Adli (at the same time Patrick Schick feel relieved Victor Boniface). in 70′ Xhaka and Hincapie they replaced it Exequiel Palacios and Alejandro Grimaldo, discreet this Saturday. Next Wednesday, Bayer Leverkusen will play the Europa League final against Atalanta at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin and the coach did not want to take any chances by playing Wirtz for 90 minutes and also preferred to rotate.

In the first half, Bayer Leverkusen created constant danger and got the game back on track with goals from Boniface and Andrich. Boniface opened the scoring after Adli’s steal and Tomas Koubek’s error, Augsburg’s goalkeeper, in the 12th minute.

And Andrich, one of the best players of the season in the Bundesliga, scored Bayer Leverkusen’s second, with a backheel, a great goal, in the 27th minute.

But at the start of the second half, against a Bayer Leverkusen that seemed to be using its strength considering that a European final awaits them on Wednesday, Augsburg stretched their lines, began to get in front of Lukas Hradecky’s goal and close the gap. A great goal from Mert Komur, taking advantage of the ball from Arne Maier, in the 62nd minute.

When Xabi Alonso put in dispute Wirtz, Schick or Xhaka. Wirtz He missed two good opportunities. He has a job Koubek, who proved himself after his mistake with the BayArena team’s first goal. He also missed a Hincapie shot.

The truth is that the German champion wants to say goodbye to ‘his’ Bundesliga with a victory and it has not escaped him, although Hradecky He had to make a great intervention to prevent a great shot from Majorcan Pep Biel from becoming a goal and Augsburg kept trying to finish the championship by scoring against Leverkusen.

But no, he is Bayer Leverkusen He hopes to lift his ‘Salad Bowl’, the first in his history, and after another victory.