Last Updated: March 06, 2023, 07:50 IST
From left, Leverkusen’s Odilon Kossounou, Florian Wirtz, Jeremie Frimpong and scorer Sardar Azmoun have fun after Leverkusen’s Sardar Azmoun scored to 1-0 through the Bundesliga soccer match between Bayer Leverkusen and Hertha BSC at BayArena stadium in Leverkusen, Germany, Sunday, March 5, 2023. (Marius Becker/dpa by way of ap)
Sardar Azmoun, Moussa Diaby, Jeremie Frimpong and Amine Adil all netted for Xabi Alonso’s Leverkusen as they bounced again from two league video games and not using a win with a convincing show of attacking soccer in opposition to the strugglers from Berlin
Hertha Berlin’s hopes of edging additional away from the Bundesliga’s relegation zone had been wrecked Sunday in a 4-1 loss at Bayer Leverkusen.
Moussa Diaby, Florian Wirtz and Jeremie Frimpong starred for Leverkusen because it bounced again from two league video games and not using a win with a convincing show of attacking soccer. The guests discovered themselves unable to compete with the house group’s pace on the wings.
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“We lacked intensity,” Hertha coach Sandro Schwarz stated. “We played into Leverkusen’s hands.”
Frimpong and Diaby mixed down the suitable earlier than the latter lower the again for Sardar Azmoun to open the scoring within the twelfth minute, and it was an analogous story for the second aim within the twenty first.
Frimpong and Odilon Kossounou despatched Diaby racing down the suitable and the French ahead lower the ball again for Frimpong to attain, although he may have picked out any of the 4 Leverkusen gamers who ran with him in anticipation of the cross.
Frimpong needed to go off injured within the twenty ninth, by which era the sport was already going in a single route with Hertha unable to muster a response to the early setbacks.
It continued in the identical vein after the break when Diaby struck the crossbar and then grabbed the third aim on the hour mark.
Dodi Lukebakio’s penalty within the 67th offered solely temporary respite for the guests, with Amine Adli including Leverkusen’s fourth within the 73rd.
Hertha remained only one level forward of the underside 4 groups — Stuttgart, Hoffenheim, Schalke and Bochum — all on 19 factors.
Leverkusen climbed to ninth.
“Hopefully we can take this performance into the future because we have two tough weeks ahead of us,” Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso stated. His group subsequent faces Hungarian champion Ferencváros within the spherical of 16 of the Europa League on Thursday.
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Wolfsburg drew with Eintracht Frankfurt 2-2 in a sport pitting two coaches in opposition to their former groups.
Frankfurt coach Oliver Glasner beforehand led Wolfsburg, whereas his counterpart Niko Kovac was Frankfurt coach.
Omar Marmoush fired Wolfsburg forward, the guests struck again by way of Randal Kolo Muani and Evan Ndicka, earlier than Yannick Gerhardt equalized — all within the first half.
Frankfurt stayed sixth with Wolfsburg 5 factors behind in eighth.
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