Leverkusen's alarm sign: From championship to complacency!

Leverkusen's alarm sign: From championship to complacency!

In a disappointing second game of the Bundesliga season, Bayer Leverkusen against Holstein Kiel achieved a 2-2 draw. After the promising start of the game, in which Victor Boniface and Jonas Hofmann gave the hosts a 2-0 lead, the concentrated performance subsided. Trainer Xabi Alonso noted that his team did not maintain the necessary intensity after the lead goal. "We lift our foot from the gas," said goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky, who criticized the "complacency" of the players.

Holstein Kiel took advantage of the negligence of the Leverkusener and shortened it to 2: 1 shortly before half -time. In the second half, Fiete met Arp with a penalty for 2-2 equalization. While Leverkusen was unable to win the game for itself in the last phase, the relapse into a faulty defensive was again obvious. The team is now under pressure to regain their previous successes and to fix the defense problems that already had six games and twelve goals this season, which was not the case in the previous season. Further details can be found in an article on www.faz.net .