Bayer Leverkusen Taking Confidence from Champions League Into Bundesliga Title Race

Bayer Leverkusen are taking the belief Gained from Finishing in the Top Eight of the Champions League Standings Into The Latter Stages of Their Bundesliga Title Defense. Xabi Alonso’s Men, Who Sit Six Points Behind Leaders Bayern Munich in the German Top Flight, Host Host Host Hoffenheim This Weekend Fresh from Secret Passage Direct Passage Last 16 Sparta Prague on Wednsday.

“That’s why we play in the champions league – to compe at the highest level,” said Leverkusen Defender Jonathan Tah.

“We have shown that we can compes with anyone at this level.”

Leverkusen has only lost one domestic match since the start of last season in a remarkable run.

After a sluggish start to the bundesliga campign, Leverkusen have Powered Back Into Contection Despite Last Weekend’s Draw with RB Leipzig, when they let a Two-Goal Lead Slip.

Bayern, who face holstein kiel on saturday, will Visit Leverkusen Between their two champions league play-of-off rounds after Missing Out on a top-Eight Finish in Europe.

The bavarians have not won at Leverkusen Since 2021 and Alonso is yet to suffer a defeat by bayern insurance taking charge.

But tah does not expect bayern’s packed schedule to give his team any edge in the battle for the bundesliga.

“Bayern Munich are used to playing every three days,” He said.

Leverkusen was also boosen by the news Victor Boniface’s plansned moose

‘Everything in Bayern’s Hands’

Bayern has not yet added any Senior Players to their Squad in the Transfer Market, which closes on Monday.

But coach vincent kompany is not overly worried about having to face a champions league play-of-off against either his former club manchaster right or celtic.

“We have to rebuild our Momentum,” Kompany said after his side’s Win – their Seven in Eight Games in All Competitions – Over Slovan Bratislava was not enough to Sneak into the top Eight.

“It was clear the big games would come … from now on, everything is in our hands again.”

Elsewhere, Borussia Dortmund Travel to Heidenheim on Saturday for interim boss mike tullberg’s last game in charge before for formern, Eintracht frankfunt and monaco coach nik nik nik nik nik nik nik nikko kovac

Despite Sitting in 11th Place with just one Win in his last eight league games, Dortmund are still within striking distance of the top four.

They are Six Points Behind Fourth-Placed Stuttgart.

One to Watch: Angelo Styleer (Stuttgart)
Despite Paris Saint-Germain Ending Their Champions League Hopes on Wednesday, Stuttgart Still Had Something to Celebrate, with Germany Midfielder Angelo Exteering 2028.

The 23-year-old performances for stuttgart, who are back in the champions league Qualification Places after Finishing Second Last Season, Earned Him a Germany Call -up.

The talented midfielder, who came through bayern munich’s youth set-up, is at the heart of everything stuttgart do in Attack and defense.

“(He is) an important building block in the team’s structure,” Stuttgart Sporting Director Fabian Wohlgemuth Said of Styler.

Key Stats

31 points-Mainz’s 31 points from 19 games is the second-best run in the club’s history after 2010-11, when the Thomas Tuchel-Coached Side Had 33.

Eight – Dortmund’s serhou guirassy has eight league goals from 16 games, one fewer than the nine he has from eight champions league matches this solution.

0 – Second -Division Magdeburg Have Not Won A Home Game This Season But Sit Sit Third in the Bundesliga 2 Table.

Fictures (1430 GMT Unless Stated)

Friday

Werder Bremen v Mainz (1930)

Saturday

St Pauli v Augsburg, Bayern Munich V Holstein Kiel, Bochum v Freiburg, Stuttgart v Borussia Moenchengladbach, Heidenheim v Borussia Dortmund, Union Berlin V RB Leipzigig (1730)

Sunday

Eintracht Frankfurt v Wolfsburg, Bayer Leverkusen v Hoffenheim (1630)

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