While Bayer Leverkusen had an easy victory over Augsburg to bid farewell to the 2023/24 Bundesliga, Bayern Munich was suԀԀenly defeated by Hoffenheim despite having a 2-0 lead at one point.
Welcoming a team that doesn’t have many goals left this season, Augsburg, at home at the Bay Arena, Leverkusen, despite officially winning the Bundesliga championship, still launched their strongest squad with the ambition of continuing to maintain their unbeaten streak this season. seems to have an important momentum for the two Europa League finals as well as the German National Cup in the near future.
Thanks to their superior squad, Xabi Alonso’s team had no difficulty controlling the match after the referee’s opening whistle.
And in less than 30 minutes of the first match, home team fans had two goals to celebrate.
First, in the 12th minute, stemming from goalkeeper Tomas Koubek’s inattentive handling, striker Amine Adli stole the ball before passing it smoothly to Victor Boniface who cushioned the ball from close range to open the score.
Continuing the momentum, 14 minutes later Leverkusen doubled the gap thanks to midfielder Robert Andrich after an exemplary threatening situation.
In the next phase, the ball still mainly rolled on Augsburg’s side of the field. Leverkusen played leisurely, proactively kicking slowly in the midfield.
Despite playing slowly, the home team still created many dangerous opportunities but were missed by Florian Wirtz or Boniface.
Having a good position, Leverkusen suԀԀenly conceded a goal in the 61st minute. After steаling the ball in the middle of the field, Augsburg launched a quick cоunterattack and midfielder Mert Komur ended the situation with a spectacular goal. .
At this time, Alonso’s team played focused to preserve the score. Meanwhile, Augsburg, despite its best efforts, could not score more goals.
The match drifted to the end with a final score of 2-1. Leverkusen officially ended the 2023/24 Bundesliga campaign with an unbeaten record (28 wins, 6 draws). This is also the 51st consecutive unbeaten match for Alonso’s army in all competitions.
Meanwhile, a goal party appeared at the Rhein Neckar Arena in the match between Hoffenheim and Bayern.
Even in the first 10 minutes, three goals were scored with 2 strikes going in favor of the away team.
Immediately after the opening whistle, the Gray Tigers played at breakneck speed to put pressure on the home team, resulting in Thomas Tuchel’s team hitting goalkeeper Oliver Baumann with 2 consecutive goals in the first 5 minutes, respectively scored by Mathys. Tel and Alphonso Davies.
But just 2 minutes later, Hoffenheim rekindled the opportunity to score with a goal from Maximilian Beier. Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer became a criminal when he handled carelessly in the penalty area.
In the following minutes, both Hoffenheim and Bayern showed an extremely liberal style of play. A series of opportunities were created towards the goal of both teams, but the strikers proved to be too ungainly.
Especially Thomas Muller when the German star had 2 big opportunities to score but handled them both extremely poorly.
Creating many opportunities but not taking advantage of them, Bayern received bitter consequences from Hoffenheim. If the first half belonged to Bayern, the last 45 minutes became a private stage for the home team, especially Andrej Kramaric when the Croatian star scored a miraculous hat-trιck.
First, in the 68th minute, after a quick throw-in, striker Ihlas Bebou quickly escaped to the bottom of the touchline before reaching a convenient cross for Kramaric to shoot into Neuer’s net, thereby bringing the match into balance.
And in just 3 minutes from minute 84 to 87, the 32-year-old player scored 2 goals to bring nightmares to Bayern fans. In the goal to increase the score to 4-2, Neuer once again made a mistake when the 38-year-old goalkeeper passed the ball difficult to midfielder Konrad Laimer, causing the Austrian player to lose the ball, creating conditions for Kramaric to complete the goal. sublime match.
In the last minutes, Bayern almost gave up and did not have any notable advances on the ball.
The final score of the match was 4-2 in favor of Hoffenheim, so the Gray Tigers could not have said a sadder goodbye to coach Tuchel. At the end of the tournament, the Allianz Arena team even dropped to 3rd place on the rankings because in the match at the same time, VfB Stuttgart crushed Borussia Monchengladbach 4-0, gaining 73 points 1 point more than Bayern.