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Mon 15 May 2023 8:23 am - Jerusalem Time

German Championship: Leverkusen continues to bleed points, and Leipzig recovers

Bayer Leverkusen continued to bleed points by falling into a tie trap in front of Stuttgart 1-1 on Sunday in the thirty-second stage of the German Football Championship, while Leipzig continued its awakening with the table title at home to Werder Bremen 2-1.


Stuttgart was the first to score through Guinean striker Serho Gerassi in the 57th minute from a penalty kick, and Bayer Erkusen equalized from a penalty kick, also for which Argentine midfielder Ezequiel Palacios successfully set out (70).


It is the third match in a row in which the men of Spanish coach Xabi Alonso fail to win the Bundesliga, so they fell to seventh place with 49 points, on goal difference behind Wolfsburg, who took sixth place from it by defeating Hoffenheim 2-1 on Saturday.


Leverkusen wished to return to the winning streak before hosting Rome, Italy, on Thursday in the second leg of the European League semi-finals, "Europa League", after losing to it 1-0 on Thursday at the Olympic Stadium in the first leg.


On the other hand, Stuttgart neglected the factors of the land and the public, and Schalke 04 lost to leaders Bayern Munich 0-6 on Saturday in order to get rid of the penultimate seventeenth place leading to the second degree.


Stuttgart was satisfied with one point, raising its tally to 29 points, one point behind Schalke 04, the sixteenth-placed club, which forces its owner to play a play-off with the third in the second division in order to survive, and two points behind his former partner in the seventeenth place, Bochum, who beat Augsburg 3-2. Saturday and climbed to the fifteenth place.


In a second match, Leipzig continued its awakening by turning the tables on its guest, Werder Bremen, with a valuable victory with a Hungarian flavor and a French industry 2-1.


Werder Bremen was on his way to achieving a victory that guaranteed him official survival two stages before the end of the season when he advanced with a goal to midfielder Leonardo Bittencourt in the 70th minute, but Hungarian captain and defender Willy Orban equalized three minutes before the end of normal time after a pass from French international Christopher Nkunku. .


Nkunku scored the winning goal for Leipzig in the penultimate sixth minute of stoppage time, with a pass to Hungarian midfielder Dominic Suboslay.
It is the third successive victory for Leipzig and the eighteenth this season, so it regained third place from Union Berlin, which defeated Freiburg 4-2 on Saturday.
Leipzig raised its score to 60 points, compared to 59 for the second pole of the capital, Berlin.

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