Everything in their own hands: Bayer Leverkusen avoided a defeat in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the Europa League. Also thanks to youngster Florian Wirtz, the Werkself did not have to accept bankruptcy against Union Saint-Gilloise and travel to Belgium for the second leg without a mortgage. But the course of the game should warn coach Xabi Alonso’s men, because the Bundesliga club played anything but confidently.
