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BERLIN: Just another win.
Bayer Leverkusen can clinch the Bundesliga subsequent weekend after Bayern Munich squandered a two-goal lead and misplaced at promoted Heidenheim 3-2 on Saturday.
A Florian Wirtz penalty was sufficient for Leverkusen to beat Union Berlin 1-0 away and transfer 16 factors away from Bayern with six rounds remaining.
Leverkusen’s ninth consecutive league win stretched its German file unbeaten run to 41 video games throughout all competitions this season.
It simply wants another win from its remaining video games to win the Bundesliga for the primary time. Leverkusen subsequent hosts Werder Bremen within the league on April 14. Leverkusen first hosts West Ham within the Europa League on Thursday.
“Nothing is decided. We wait a little,” Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso stated. “We’ll stay focused, concentrate on Thursday, then maybe we’ll have something to celebrate on Sunday.”
Alonso’s workforce would nearly definitely have gained the title even with out Bayern’s assist. He acknowledged he was stunned Leverkusen may wrap up the title already within the second week of April.
“I had planned on it a bit later,” Alonso joked.
But Bayern, the 11-time defending champion, is a shadow of itself after slumping to its sixth defeat. It’s Bayern’s second consecutive loss after final week’s Klassiker defeat to Borussia Dortmund.
Harry Kane’s kind is the one solace in an in any other case disappointing season.
Serge Gnabry arrange Kane within the thirty eighth for his thirty second league purpose, then obtained Bayern’s second earlier than the break with a header to Alphonso Davies’ cross.
But Kevin Sessa pulled one again after it and Tim Kleindienst equalized a minute after that. Kleindienst scored the winner within the 79th for Heidenheim’s first ever win over Bayern, which subsequent performs Arsenal away within the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal on Tuesday.
Also, Cologne scored twice in stoppage time to beat Bochum 2-1 of their relegation battle. Mainz defeated last-placed Darmstadt 4-0, and Leipzig routed Freiburg 4-1 away.
Dortmund was internet hosting Stuttgart later Saturday.
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