He Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen He made his debut this Thursday in the new Champions League, beating the Feyenoord with 0-4 at the De Kuip stadium, presenting their candidacy to be one of the contenders to enter the final on May 31, 2025 at the Allianz-Arena in Munich. In a good game, showing that he has different records.
The meeting in Rotterdam marked the debut in the Champions League of one of the great stars of the current scene, Florian Wirtz, and he did not disappoint, as the German international scored a double. Others in the stellar early part of Bayer Leverkusen is from Alejandro Grimaldo and Timon Wellenreuther (goalkeeper of Feyenoord) in own purpose.
Wirtz It took him just 5 minutes to score the first goal of his Champions League career. Although he Feyenoord started well in the opening period, after the Dutch lost the ball, Robert Andrich he won the ball and attended Wirtzwho scored thanks to a great shot from outside the area.
In the 30th minute came Bayer Leverkusen’s second goal, with a great technical gesture from Victor Boniface to get past the Feyenoord defense: imitating Thierry Henry with his iconic ‘fake shot pass’, he fooled the defense by looking like he’s going to play. with one foot and actually taking the pass with the other. He sent it to Frimpong who sent it to Grimaldo, who scored from behind.
In the 36th minute, Wirtz was delighted, finishing Frimpong’s pass first, for Leverkusen’s third. And in the 45th minute, Timon Wellenreuther put the ball into his own goal after a header from Edmond Tapsoba.
Aleix Garcia, about to score
The scoreboard did not move in the second half. Feyenoord could have closed the gap thanks to a great shot from Quinten Timber, but Leverkusen goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky responded with a great save. And Feyenoord asked for a penalty from Andrich, but the play was disallowed due to offside. In the ranks of Xabi Alonso’s team, Aleix Garcia came on in the 72nd minute for Wirtz and came close to scoring on a double chance.
match lineup
22
30
33
6
18
3
4
8
29
27
14
1
30
20
3
4
12
34
8
22
11
10
Stadion Feijenoord
43′
Lukás Hrádecky1
60′
Jeremie Frimpong30
Alex Grimaldo20
29′
79′
45′
Piero Hincapié3
42′
71′
Jonathan Tah4
Edmond Tapsoba12
Granite Xhaka34
80′
Robert Andrich8
Victor Boniface22
61′
74′
Martin Terrier11
71′
60′
Florian Wirtz10
4′
35′
71′
Replacements
Matej Kovar17
Niklas Lomb36
45′
Arthur13
Nordi Mukiele23
71′
Jeanuël Belocian44
79′
Jonas Hoffmann7
74′
Nathan Tella19
60′
Alex Garcia24
71′
Exequiel Palacios25
80′
Patrick Schick14
61′
60′
Amine Adli21
71′
coach
Brian Priske
Xabi Alonso
Source: La Verdad
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