Victor Boniface scored a stoppage-time winner as defending champions Bayer Leverkusen came from behind to beat 10-man Wolfsburg 4-3 in the Bundesliga.
German Bundesliga football, match 4 of the 2023/24 season, “Pharmacist” Bayer Leverkusen, the defending champion, opened the Bay Arena to meet “Wolves” Wolfsburg.
Five minutes into the game, the away team took a 1-0 lead through an own goal by Nordi Mukiele, but Leverkusen equalized in the 14th minute through a shot by Florian Wirtz, before Jonathan Tah headed the ball in to give the Drugstore team a 2-1 lead in the 32nd minute.
Before the end of the first half, Wolfsburg scored 2 goals to take the lead again from Sebastian Bornau who headed the ball into the goal in the 37th minute and Mittias Svanberg who shot from a distance in the 45+1 minute. The first half ended with Wolfsburg leading 3-2.
In the second half, in the 48th minute, Piero Incapie headed in a corner kick for Leverkusen to equalize at 3-3. In the 80th minute, Wolfsburg were reduced to 10 players when Yannick Gerhard was shown a straight red card for fouling Jeremie Frimpong. In the final minutes of the game, in the 90+3rd minute, Levertime worked when Victor Boniface successfully scored the winning goal.
Full-time Leverkusen beat Wolfsburg 4-3 in an exciting match, collecting 3 points, increasing to 9 points from 4 matches, moving up to second place, 3 points behind Bayern Munich, while Wolfsburg is in 13th place with 3 points.
Another pair at the Mercedes Benz Arena, “White Horse” Stuttgart hosted “Yellow Tiger” Borussia Dortmund. Just 4 minutes into the game, Maximilian Mittelstadt passed the ball to Deniz Undav who broke through and shot past Gregor Kobel into the goal, giving Stuttgart an early 1-0 lead.
In the 21st minute, Mittelstadt passed the ball to Ermedin Demirovic, who headed it into the goal, giving the White Horse a 2-0 lead.
In the second half, in the 62nd minute, Atakan Karazor headed the ball to Enzo Milot, who ran in and kicked it into the goal, giving the White Horse a 3-0 lead.
In the 75th minute, Serhou Girassi, the former Stuttgart striker, used the old team’s goal-scoring rule to make it 1-3 for Dortmund. In the 80th minute, Enzo Milot dribbled the ball along the end line before passing it to Bilal El Toure, a substitute who had only been on for a minute, who scored to make it 4-1 for Stuttgart.
At the end of the game in the 90th minute, Deniz Undav shot his second goal of the game, the final goal for Stuttgart, defeating Dortmund 5-1 at home, increasing their points to 7 from 4 matches, moving up to 7th place, while the Yellow Tigers dropped to 8th place with 7 points. In the other match, St. Pauli drew 0-0 with RB Leipzig.
Source: Thai News Agency