Xabi Alonso‘s ridiculous unbeaten document has been saved alive due to Bayer Leverkusen’s gorgeous victory within the Europa League.
The Bundesliga leaders went into the second leg of their round-of-16 tie towards Azerbaijani aspect Qarabag degree at 2-2 as they stood because the overwhelming favorite at residence on Thursday (March 14). However, it went terribly fallacious for the Spaniard as his group went 1-0 down as a result of Abdellah Zoubir’s strike.
The away aspect had been then decreased to 10 males three minutes after the opener with Elvin Jafarguliyev proven a straight crimson card. But even with one much less participant, they proved efficient in entrance of aim as they grabbed a shock second by Juninho.
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Leverkusen had been dealing with an embarrassing exit from the competitors in addition to dropping their outstanding unbeaten streak this season however a aim again from Netherlands worldwide Jeremie Frimpong offered a glimmer of hope.
Heading into stoppage time with 9 minutes added on, the German aspect managed to seek out an equaliser by Patrick Schick as goalkeeper Andrey Lunev didn’t preserve his close-range strike out of the online.
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In extraordinary scenes on the BayArena, Schick proved to be the hero after he met the cross of Exequiel Palacios to move previous Lunev within the 98th minute to safe Leverkusen’s passage to the quarter-finals.
The Czech striker has failed to attain in 2024 within the Bundesliga however has been a medical pressure in Europe, netting in 4 consecutive video games as his brace prolonged the membership’s unbeaten run to 37 video games in all competitions.
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Leverkusen will uncover their quarter-final opponents in addition to their potential run to the ultimate within the Europa League draw on Friday from 12pm (UK time) the place Alonso may come up towards former aspect Liverpool, who additionally booked their place within the final eight after a 6-1 win over Sparta Prague, making it 11-2 of their favour over the 2 legs.
The 42-year-old has been reported to be Liverpool’s primary goal to exchange Jurgen Klopp as supervisor with the German set to go away the membership on the finish of the season. Bayern Munich are additionally concentrating on him, nonetheless.