How did Xabi Alonso shape the Leverkusen team into this invincible ensemble? “Around the ball,” says football sage Jorge Valdano. The coronation is scheduled to take place on Sunday. Inquiring about an amazing master coach between Leverkusen and Madrid.
It would really be the right opportunity to take a leap into the air and sing Bianca Castafiore’s jewel aria (“Ha, wach’ Glück”), but Xabi Alonso just wandered up and down with his arms folded across his chest, pondering like a humanities scholar Forest walk. Apparently something was bothering him even more than the joy of the goal to make it 2-0, which the recovered striker Victor Boniface had just scored against the united master masons from London. Incidentally, this is not a goal that is simply taken into account because of its insignificance – Bayer Leverkusen now travel to the second leg against West Ham United next Thursday with a considerable balance. The semi-finals of the Europa League are not far away for Bayer 04.