SV Darmstadt 98 lost the duel between bottom of the table and leaders against Bayer Leverkusen. The Hessians showed a solid performance, but Bayer presented themselves as a humorless top team.
SV Darmstadt 98 lost its home game against Bayer Leverkusen 0:2 (0:1). Nathan Tella scored a brace for the guests (33rd/52nd). For the Lilies it was the thirteenth game in a row without a win.
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The complete Lilien-PK after the game against Leverkusen
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Lilien coach Torsten Lieberknecht changed his starting eleven to five positions; Christoph Zimmermann, Matej Maglica, Emir Karic, Oscar Vilhelmsson and newcomer Gerrit Holtmann started for Clemens Riedel, Christoph Klarer, Klaus Gjasula, Fabian Nürnberger and Julian Justvan.
Lilies make life difficult for Leverkusen
The bottom of the table presented itself well against the league leaders from the start, the Lilies stood deep and defended with concentration. The top team from Leverkusen found it difficult to get their usual horsepower on the road in the narrow spaces. It was only after 15 minutes that Granit
The Lilies waited to win the ball in order to catch the Werkself unsorted, but they remained too harmless. The hard-working Holtmann on the left ruined a good counter-attack opportunity with a weak cross (19th), shortly afterwards Luca Pfeiffer took a pass from Emir Karic with a strong technique with his back to the goal, but then shot too unplaced from the turn (24th. ). It rarely or never really became compelling.
Leadership out of the blue
This also applied to the Werkself, who had more possession of the ball but hardly had any clear chances. The opening goal was all the more surprising: Wirtz played free to Grimaldo on the left side, whose cross was headed in from close range by the incoming Tella at the second post (33′). In this situation, Holtmann had lost sight of Tella. Because Emir Karic headed too centrally from a corner (39th) and Leverkusen’s Robert Andrich was denied by Marcel Schuhen from a distance (45th), the Lilies went into the dressing room with a score of 0-1.
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The SVD came out of the break bilious, Holtmann missed the yellow card, Christoph Zimmermann rightly saw it after a rough tackle against Wirtz. But before the Hessians could find their way into the game, Leverkusen briefly flexed their muscles. Wirtz drove the ball through the center, passed to the right to Tella, who was running along with him, who hit the ball under the crossbar into the goalkeeper’s corner from an acute angle (52′). A tight shot that made Schuhen not seem entirely happy.
Leverkusen in the style of a top team
As a result, Leverkusen played the game in the style of a top team, letting the ball circulate, the Lilies, where new signing Sebastian Polter made his debut in the final phase, no longer posed any danger. And so in the end there was a deserved defeat against a deserved league leader, against whom three points were not really to be expected. However, the Hessians’ last victory dates back to October last year, and the Lilies’ situation in the relegation battle is becoming more precarious week by week.
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Darmstadt 98 – Bayer Leverkusen 0:2 (0:1)
Darmstadt: Schuhen – Bader, Zimmermann, Maglica (81.Klarer), Karic – Franjic (81.Müller), Holland (66. Mehlem) – Holtmann (66.Polter), Skarke – Pfeiffer, Vilhelmsson (66.Torsiello) Leverkusen: Hradecky – Stanisic, Tah, Hincapie – Tella, Andrich, Xhaka (88. Tapsoba), Grimaldo – Hlozek (90. Mbamba), Wirtz (77. Hofmann) – Iglesias
Tore: 0:1 Tella (33.), 0:2 Tella (52.)
yellow cards: Zimmermann, Franjix / Andrich, Hlozek
referee: Reichel (Stuttgart)
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