He also beat Mainz and Leverkusen is galloping for the title

They may have faced unusual opposition by this year’s standards, but Xabi Alonso’s side cruised to their 19th league win, taking them even closer to the title, after beating Mainz 2-1 at the Bay Arena in their opening match. curtain of the 23rd matchday in the Bundesliga.

With this three points, the home team is at +11 from Bayern Munich and only with suicide, it seems that they may lose the title this year. Although they took an early lead through Granit Xhaka and looked like they were going to have an easy night, they were immediately leveled by struggling Mainz with a goal from Kor, but it was Andrich who sealed the win. Despite the good performance, the visiting team remained in the penultimate position of the standings.

After Grimaldo’s collaboration with Xhaka, the Swiss managed to open the scoring for the German league leaders with a shot, just in the 3rd minute. Kor, however, four minutes later, after Widmer’s cross, made it 1-1 for Mainz, who resisted strongly with Andrich capitalizing on an assist from Wirz in the 68th minute, while Engankam was sent off for the visiting team in the 80th minute.

The program of the 23rd matchday

Friday (23/02)

Leverkusen-Mainz 2-1

(4′ Xhaka, 68′ Andrich – 8′ Kor)

Saturday (24/02)

Union Berlin-Heidenheim (16:30)

Gladbach-Bochum (16:30)

Werder Bremen-Darmstadt (16:30)

Stuttgart-Cologne (16:30)

Bayern Munich-Leipzig (19:30)

Sunday (25/02)

Eintracht Frankfurt-Wolfsburg (16:30)

Dortmund-Hoffenheim (18:30)

Augsburg-Freiburg (20:30)

The schedule for the next (24th) matchday

Friday (01/03)

Freiburg-Bayern Munich (21:30)

Saturday (02/03)

Union Berlin-Dortmund (16:30)

Mainz-Glandbach (16:30)

Bochum-Leipzig (16:30)

Heidenheim-Eintracht Frankfurt (16:30)

Darmstadt-Augsburg (16:30)

Wolfsburg-Stuttgart (19:30)

Sunday (03/03)

Cologne-Leverkusen (16:30)

Hoffenheim-Werder Bremen (18:30)