That has never happened before. With the 2-1 win against FC Augsburg, Bayer Leverkusen is the first German football champion to go an entire Bundesliga season without defeat.
Now it’s finally a historic season: With the final 2-1 (2-0) against FC Augsburg, Bayer Leverkusen has completed its incredible series and is the first German champion without defeat in 61 years of Bundesliga football. Even FC Bayern never managed that. With 90 points, Bayer missed Munich’s historic points record from the 2012/13 season by one point. Victor Boniface (12th) and national player Robert Andrich (27th) gave Bayer a 2-0 lead, and 18-year-old Mert Kömür became the youngest Augsburg Bundesliga goalscorer on his starting eleven debut with the goal (62nd).
Bayer, whose first championship title has been secured since April 14th, is now unbeaten from the start in a total of 51 competitive games. There are still two games left: in the finals of the Europa League on Wednesday in Dublin against Atalanta Bergamo and in the DFB Cup next Saturday against second division team 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Leverkusen can crown the season with a treble. But even so, it is a special season for everyone at Leverkusen: apart from Josip Stanisic as a supplementary player with FC Bayern, no current Bayer player has ever been a German champion.
The Augsburg team missed the theoretical minimum chance of taking part in their second European Cup. Coach Jess Thorup, who was hired in October, has confidently secured FCA’s 14th top division season in a row.
Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso had made it clear in advance that the game was very important because of the historic series. He said it was “our first final.” And his team performed accordingly. From the start the game knew almost only one direction. The master pushed and pushed. Augsburg held on bravely, but both against it. But with a misfire, the Swabians enabled Bayer to quickly make it 1-0: FCA keeper Tomas Koubek missed Amine Adli when he hit a shot, who blocked the ball and fed Boniface, who easily slotted in. Fifteen minutes later, Andrich backheeled Jonathan Tah’s blocked shot from four meters into the net. After a mediocre first half, the Augsburg team showed after the break that they hadn’t just come to the Rhineland as party guests. Kömür’s goal was worth seeing.
The Leverkusen fans celebrated an almost continuous game in the stands, which they only voluntarily interrupted once for a moving moment. After 19:04 minutes, they thought for a minute of all those from the Bayer family who did not live to see the long-awaited championship.
Source: Stern
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