Leverkusen kept its big dream alive last night (Saturday) – winning the championship without a single loss. Again it happened through the presentation of an iron character, one that characterizes only the greatest champions of all – the leader of the table trailed 2:0 against Stuttgart, before coming back to 2:1 and then equalizing 2:2 in the 97th minute, from the foot of Robert Andrich. Pay attention to the number of games this season in which Xavi Alonso’s team came back and scored a point or three in the deciding minutes – ten times they salvaged a point or a victory within the league from the 90th minute onwards. In all frames it looks like this:
Mentality. 😮💨
90′ vs Ottensen
90’+4 vs FC Bayern
90’+2 vs Sandhausen
90’+4 vs Qarabag
90’+4 vs Augsburg
90’+1 vs Leipzig
90’+5 vs FC Bayern
90’+1 vs Stuttgart
90’+2 vs Qarabag
90’+3 & +7 vs Qarabag
90’+1 vs Hoffenheim
90’+1 vs West Ham
90′ vs Bremen
90’+7 vs Dortmund… pic.twitter.com/yhFC2IwQVw— Bayer 04 Leverkusen (@bayer04_en) April 22, 2024
* 4/27/2024 – from 2:1 to 2:2 against Stuttgart (97th minute)
* 4/21/2024 – from 1:0 to 1:1 against Dortmund (97th minute)
* 18/4/2024 – from 1:0 to 1:1 against West Ham (89th minute)
* 11/4/2024 – from 0:0 to 0:2 against West Ham (83rd minute, 91st minute)
* 3/30/2024 – from 1:0 to 1:2 over Hoffenheim (88th minute, 91st minute)
* 3/14/2024 – from 2:1 to 2:3 over Karabakh (93rd minute, 97th minute)
* 7/3/2024 – from 2:1 to 2:2 against Karabakh (92nd minute)
* 6/2/2024 – from 2:2 to 2:3 over Stuttgart (90 minutes)
* 1/20/2024 – from 2:2 to 2:3 on R.B. Leipzig (minute 91)
* 13/1/2024 – from 0:0 to 0:1 over Augsburg (94th minute)
* 9/11/2023 – from 0:0 to 0:1 against Kabah (94th minute)
* 9/15/2023 – from 2:1 to 2:2 against Bayern Munich (94th minute)
WE CAN’T KEEP DOING THIS!!!!
— Bayer 04 Leverkusen (@bayer04_en) April 27, 2024
“I haven’t seen many things like this in football,” admitted Xavi Alonso. “It’s hard to explain. Last week I was pretty shocked, and this time I just couldn’t believe we did it again. We already achieved our main goal, which is winning the championship, but we want to continue. There are three league games left and the goal is clear.”
“It’s madness,” added goalkeeper Lukasz Hradecki. “I have no words to describe it. It’s amazing and it reaches our audience. I think it’s about 50 percent quality and 50 percent luck.”
With this, the streak of the champion stands at 46 games without a loss – the longest in the top five leagues in Europe. Leverkusen is the first German team ever to record at least 31 consecutive Bundesliga games without a loss,
