Xabi Alonso, head coach of Bayer Levekusen, who’re on high of the Bundesliga desk at present. (Credit: AFP)
Leverkusen gained for the 18th time in 22 league matches to go eight factors away from second-positioned Bayern Munich, making it 32 video games with out defeat in all competitions this season.
Bayer Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso refused to get carried away after his workforce equalled the longest unbeaten run for a Bundesliga workforce with a 2-1 win at Heidenheim on Saturday.
Leverkusen gained for the 18th time in 22 league matches to go eight factors away from second-positioned Bayern Munich, making it 32 video games with out defeat in all competitions this season.
That drew them degree with the all-time document set by Hansi Flick’s Bayern throughout the 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons.
“I’m not going to celebrate the 500-day mark,” stated Alonso, who took cost of Leverkusen in October 2022 with the membership within the relegation zone.
“I’m satisfied with the game, with the performance and the result.
“We’re in a good phase. We’ll keep going and focus on one game after the next.”
“Overall the performance was good. I’m really happy, but we have to keep going.”
No workforce has ever gone by way of a German high-flight season unbeaten.
There are 12 matches remaining this marketing campaign.
Since Alonso’s appointment, his facet have taken 100 factors from 47 Bundesliga matches, a factors-per-recreation ratio bettered solely by Bayern groups coached by Pep Guardiola, Carlo Ancelotti and Flick.
Midfielder Granit Xhaka stated “statistics don’t lie” after the win at Heidenheim saved them on course for historical past.
“The team is in full swing. We showed again how dominant we can be,” former Arsenal midfielder Xhaka instructed reporters.
Leverkusen, who thrashed Bayern 3-0 every week in the past, have by no means gained the title regardless of ending runners-up 5 occasions. Bayern may reduce the hole again to 5 factors with victory at Bochum on Sunday.
Alonso’s Leverkusen have dropped simply eight of a potential 66 factors this season.
Their 58 factors is the third finest in league historical past at this stage, behind solely Guardiola’s Bayern sides from 2013-14, who had 62 factors, and 2015-16, with 59 factors.
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