Borussia Dortmund won a 4-2 victory in Bayer Leverkusen on Sunday, spoiling Xabi Alonso’s last game in the home canoe while increasing his hopes of the Champions League. Visitors came from a drop while the early strike from Jeremie Frimpong was canceled by the goals of Julian Brandt, Julian Ryerson, Karim Adeyemi and Serhou Guirassy. Alonso, who took Leverkusen to a double in the league and cup last year in his first full season in charge, announced his imminent departure from the club on Friday, with the probable destination of the Spaniard.
The defense of the title of Leverkusen failed with a 2-2 draw in Freiburg last Sunday, but fans of the house were in the mood of celebration, a year after Alonso took them to a first League title in 120 years of history.
Before the match, Leverkusen celebrated Alonso’s time at the club while fans chanted ‘Danke Xabi’ and held signs with photos of the Basque coach, but Dortmund was not in mood to celebrate.
The hosts dominated the opening period, pinning sleeping in their own half. Only a few spectacular stops by Dortmund goalkeeper, Gregor Kobel, who made seven stops before half-time, kept Leverkusen at a distance.
Leverkusen’s pressure finally said disappeared 31 minutes when Florian Wirtz traveled the penalty surface, attracted three defenders before throwing the ball in Frimpong who curled up in the upper corner.
Dortmund had barely left their own half, but the goal rocked them to life. Visitors equalized two minutes later, Adeyemi reducing the ball so that Brandt went to the house.
Brandt designed the two second minutes of Dortmund before the break, winning a bullet near the touchline and finding a crossing at Pascal Gross, who swivel and passed Ryerson to train a low shot in the net.
Adeyemi and Guirassy, who each scored hugs in the 4-0 game of Wolfsburg, last week, went on the match sheet in the space of four minutes in the second half.
Guirassy now has 33 goals in 44 games in his first season in Dortmund.
Wirtz, which was linked to a summer departure, posed a late consolation goal for Jonas Hofmann in time.
Alonso will take Leverkusen once again, during the next week’s match in MAYPIED, but Leverkusen cannot finish more or less than the second.
Dortmund is now sitting at a point behind Freiburg, fourth, with one more game to play.
Later Sunday, Eintracht Frankfurt can devote a place in the Champions League when they welcome St Pauli, while the finalists of the German Cup Stuttgart play at home against Augsburg.
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