Borussia Dortmund tried to catch Leverkusen twice but failed, Bayer Leverkusen won with 3 goals in one of the most difficult away games in the Bundesliga. Leverkusen started the game with front line pressure and took the lead in the 24th second through Tella's classy goal. Patrik Schick, one of my favorite strikers, scored the other two goals.
Leverkusen continues to follow Bayern München closely. Bayern will also play a tough away game against Mönchengladbach and could lose points there.
It was definitely a good game and a great way to kick start the second half of the season it was a very good start for Bayer Leverkusen, two quick goals in the first 10 minutes of the game was a good one, for Dortmund it was a very poor start, giving a way two early goals against an opponent like Bayer Leverkusen is the biggest mistake one could actually make because when you try to press for an equalizer they punish you for the space you leave behind same thing happened in this game and resulted in the third goal for Leverkusen.
To Dortmund this is a very bad start for them, this loss can bring them down to even 10 position pending the outcome of other games, this is a bad one for Dortmund if they miss out on the champions league qualification places.
Another thing that caught my attention was Donyell Malen and Sabitzer entering the match with 15 minutes left. Especially Malen is a player who can make quick attacks, but I don't understand why Nuri Şahin left him out.
Most coaches are the main reason their teams do lose match and they don’t usually regret it because they are thinking that that’s the right thing. Same thing affected HensinFlick, Arteta, and some managers but they keep doing it because they are trying to change their playing pattern at very wrong time. Of big coaches keep making such mistakes, they will cause a lot problem and most of the coaches will get sacked.
Sometimes it is not usually there fault to just bench players like that sometimes it’s the nature of the game, most managers love rotation and some approach games with different tactics and some tactics are actually not suitable for some players and that’s why they come from the bench. Although for some managers they are usually stubborn that they don’t consider changing tactics if the first one is going wrong in a game