Bayer Leverkusen received the DFB Cup for the second time in historical past. The staff accomplished essentially the most profitable season within the membership’s historical past with a double – and prevailed in opposition to Kaiserslautern regardless of being superior.
Bayer Leverkusen additionally received the DFB Cup, reaching the double for the primary time within the manufacturing facility staff’s historical past. Germany’s Rhineland champions beat Palatine’s second division soccer staff 1. FC Kaiserslautern 1-0 (1-0) at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium. Granit Xhaka scored the one objective of the sport in entrance of 74,322 spectators within the sixteenth minute.
For Leverkusen it’s the second cup victory after 1993. Three days after the 0-3 defeat within the Europa League closing in opposition to Atalanta Bergamo and the one defeat this season, coach Xabi Alonso’s staff needed to fear in regards to the success of the cup. Particularly since Bayer’s skilled Odilon Kossounou was proven a yellow-red card within the forty fourth minute and his teammates needed to play greater than half.
With Kaiserslautern, a second division staff may have received the DFB Cup for the second time. The one staff to realize this was Hannover 96 in 1992.
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