Bundesliga leaders Bayer Leverkusen twice got here from a aim down after which bagged a second half stoppage time winner by Piero Hincapie to grab a 3-2 win at RB Leipzig on Saturday and stay unbeaten within the league this season.
It was the second consecutive match that Xabi Alonso’s workforce received with a last-gasp aim after their stoppage-time win over Augsburg final week.
Leverkusen, unbeaten in 27 consecutive matches throughout all competitions this season, at the moment are on 48 factors from 18 video games, with second-placed Bayern Munich, who play Werder Bremen on Sunday, on 41 from 16 matches.
Leipzig, who’ve now gone three league video games with no win for the primary time below coach Marco Rose, are fourth on 33 factors, degree with fifth-placed Borussia Dortmund, winners 4-0 over Cologne.
“I don’t know what this win means for the future but for now it is good to have a positive atmosphere in the team and sit in a good position in the table,” Alonso instructed a press convention.
“We had too many problems in the first half. We improved in the second but it was an intense game. In the end it was the small details from set pieces that made the difference. I am very satisfied.
“It is three extra factors, we’re in place however it’s nonetheless solely the primary match of the second half of the season for us.”
Leipzig fully overran the guests early within the first half and had missed two golden possibilities by the point they took a seventh minute lead with Xavi Simons’ very good aim after he twice managed the ball within the air after which turned on the spot to beat keeper Lukas Hradecky.
Leverkusen, who now have extra league wins than in the complete earlier season, had been nowhere to be seen within the first half and likewise had Jeremie Frimpong taken off injured after half an hour.
But they shot out of the blocks after the break, equalising within the forty seventh by Nathan Tella after being left fully unmarked on the far put up and tapping in an Alejandro Grimaldo cutback.
They got here shut with Florian Wirtz a bit later however Leipzig went again in entrance in opposition to the run of play with a textbook break, an ideal Dani Olmo by ball and a one-touch end from their high scorer Lois Openda within the 56th.
That, nevertheless, solely lasted seven minutes because the guests drew degree as soon as extra with Jonathan Tah rising excessive on the far put up to move in a curling Jonas Hofmann nook.
The guests’ sensational comeback was full in stoppage time when Hincapie shook off his marker and slid in on the far put up to attach with Grimaldo’s nook.
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