The score was 3 – 1 after just 19 twinkles of play in the first half, with Patrik Schick scoring two pretensions.
Patrik Schick scored doubly in the first half as Bayer Leverkusen won 3- 2 at flu- hit Borussia Dortmund on Friday, reducing their gap to Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich to one point. Illness also destroyed Dortmund’s defence, formerly hit by an injury extremity, with centre- tails Emre Can and Nico Schlotterbeck as well as left- back Ramy Bensebaini ruled out with injuries just hours before the Bundesliga proceeded from its downtime break.
The defending titleholders took advantage of Dortmund’s inexperienced defence and scored through Nathan Tella after just 25 seconds, while Patrik Schick added another in the eighth nanosecond.
English winger Jamie Gittens pulled a thing back, but Schick restored Leverkusen’s two- thing lead soon after.
Patrik Schick scored doubly in the first half as Bayer Leverkusen won 3- 2 at flu- hit Borussia Dortmund on Friday, reducing their gap to Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich to one point. Illness also destroyed Dortmund’s defence, formerly hit by an injury extremity, with centre- tails Emre Can and Nico Schlotterbeck as well as left- back Ramy Bensebaini ruled out with injuries just hours before the Bundesliga proceeded from its downtime break.
The defending titleholders took advantage of Dortmund’s inexperienced defence and scored through Nathan Tella after just 25 seconds, while Patrik Schick added another in the eighth nanosecond.
English winger Jamie Gittens pulled a thing back, but Schick restored Leverkusen’s two- thing lead soon after.
Serho Guirassy’s last- nanosecond penalty gave Dortmund stopgap, but Leverkusen held on for their ninth successive palm in all competitions to pile the pressure on Bayern, who visit Borussia Monchengladbach on Saturday.
To be honest we are not looking at Bayern, we are concentrated on ourselves and we are on the right track,” Leverkusen’s Granit Xhaka told DAZN.
Leverkusen trainer Xabi Alonso benched in- form midfielder Florian Vis due to an” internal issue”.
Dortmund’s problems were n’t so egregious, with the platoon missing three first- choice centre- tails as well as sect tails Pascal Gross and Bensebaini.
Dortmund’s new defence, which included youths Almuguerra Cabre and Yannick Luehrs, was traduced nearly incontinently.
Tella, the English- born Nigerian winger, fired a superb shot into the top corner after Leverkusen forced the nervous hosts into miscalculations while playing out from the reverse.
The callers soon doubled their lead when Schick headed in Piero Hincapie’s low cross.
Dortmund got back into the game four twinkles latterly when Gittens scored after Robert Andrich accidentally put the ball into his path.
still, Schick scored his alternate and Leverkusen’s third in the 19th nanosecond, this time converting a cross from the right.
Schick, who started the season on the bench behind Victor Boniface, has now scored 11 pretensions in his last six league games.
