Boniface Sends Leverkusen 7 Points Clear At Top Of Bundesliga. Bayern Under Pressure In Late Game – News18

BERLIN: Victor Boniface scored and arrange two targets for Bundesliga chief Bayer Leverkusen to ship defending champion Bayern Munich a message with a 3-0 win over Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday.

Leverkusen, the one unbeaten workforce left within the league, moved seven factors away from second-place Bayern, which fell to a 5-1 defeat at Frankfurt the weekend earlier than.

Bayern was beneath stress to reply with a win over fourth-place Stuttgart later Sunday, however the job was made tougher with Joshua Kimmich, Leon Goretzka and goalkeeper Sven Ulreich dropping out at quick discover due to flu.

Kingsley Coman and Noussair Mazraoui have been already dominated out with accidents picked up towards Manchester United within the Champions League on Tuesday. Bayern coach Thomas Tuchel solely had 15 outfield gamers obtainable to face Stuttgart, which drew with Leverkusen 1-1 final weekend.

Leverkusen was out to make amends towards Frankfurt, which had made begin earlier than Boniface broke the impasse within the 14th minute with the house workforce’s first probability. Florian Wirtz handed to the Nigeria ahead on the left. Facing two defenders, Boniface tried a feint, then minimize inside and unleashed a low shot contained in the far nook.

Frankfurt’s protection stored the house workforce in test till the 51st, when Jeremie Frimpong prodded dwelling after Kevin Trapp saved Boniface’s preliminary effort.

Wirtz made it 3-0 with an exquisite end within the 57th, chipping the ball over Trapp after Boniface performed him via on the left.

Wirtz additionally struck the crossbar with an analogous effort, earlier than Piero Hincapie hit the submit late on for Leverkusen.

Frankfurt defender Willian Pacho produced a superb sliding deal with to cease Nathan Tella from scoring Leverkusen’s fourth in harm time.

FREIBURG EXTENDS WINNING RUN

Freiburg substitutes Michael Gregoritsch and Roland Sallai scored within the second half to beat 10-man Cologne 2-0 within the early recreation.

Cologne defender Julian Chabot was despatched off along with his second yellow card 10 minutes earlier than Gregoritsch opened the scoring. Sallai made certain of the win in harm time for Freiburg’s third consecutive league win.

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