Bayern and Leverkusen shared spoils after first-half screamers

Defending Bundesliga champions Bayer Leverkusen secured a hard-fought 1-1 draw away to Bayern Munich on Saturday.

While many have been predicting a Bundesliga basic within the days previous to kick-off, the match itself didn’t stay as much as expectations.

There have been few goal-scoring alternatives at both finish, with each groups partaking in a much more tactical chess match, somewhat than all-out battle.

The consequence ensured Bayern Munich dropped their first Bundesliga factors underneath Vincent Kompany, while Xabi Alonso’s costs have been in a position to make sure their Bavarian rivals didn’t pull too far forward.

The match was predicted to indicate a altering of the guard

Heading into the encounter, Bayern Munich had scored 20 targets of their earlier three video games in all competitions.

Along with turning into the primary workforce to internet 9 in a single Champions League sport, Bayern registered 11 targets throughout away matches at Kiel and Bremen. 

Quite the opposite, Bayern Leverkusen stayed true to their never-die angle. The Werkself as soon as once more salvaged dramatic wins within the Supercup, Bundesliga opener and final weekend’s sport in opposition to Wolfsburg.

Sarcastically, it was at Bayern we first noticed their preventing spirit underneath Xabi Alonso. A 94th-minute penalty from World Cup winner Exequiel Palacios salvaged them some extent final 12 months. The great 3-0 victory within the return fixture was their most spectacular results of the historic season.

As such, Bayern have been looking for a primary win in opposition to Leverkusen in 4 video games. That’s a stark distinction to the previous the place Bayern scored 4 or extra in opposition to them on 4 events within the earlier three seasons.

Followers have been handled to screamers in a sport of few possibilities

As Germany’s largest membership, it’s quite common to see Bayern goal the most effective gamers from their closest rivals.

After ending Bayern’s unprecedented 11-year championship successful streak, Leverkusen are in peril of dropping Jonathan Tah and Florian Wirtz to Bayern.

Nonetheless, it was Robert Andrich, one other German worldwide from Leverkusen, who opened the rating in opposition to the run of play. Bayern dictated the opening half an hour, however the one huge probability they’d was from Michael Olise’s free-kick.

It took one other screamer for Bayern to degree the rating earlier than halftime. It was a becoming equalizer from the 20-year-old Aleksandar Pavlovic, who stored Leon Goretzka out of the workforce and compelled Joshua Kimmich to play exterior his favored place.