Xabi Alonso continues to hang-out his former employers Bayern Munich.
Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen performed out a 0-0 draw with Bayern in a contest that had been billed as a possible title decider.
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The end result made it six video games unbeaten for Alonso in his first six video games in opposition to Bayern as a supervisor.
It cemented Alonso’s place in historical past given no different head coach in Germany had loved such a prolonged undefeated streak in opposition to the Bavarian giants.
The Spaniard surpassed Ernst Happel – who went unbeaten in his first 4 matches in opposition to Bayern as Hamburg coach within the Nineteen Eighties – within the file books again in December.
Alonso’s file as Leverkusen boss in opposition to Bayern now stands at three wins and three attracts, with 9 objectives scored and simply 4 conceded.
Nonetheless, Alonso could have felt aggrieved the file didn’t learn 4 wins and two attracts after Saturday’s fixture.
Regardless of Bayern going into the conflict on the high of the Bundesliga, it was reigning champions Leverkusen who have been left scratching their heads at how they did not rating.
Nathan Tella and Jeremie Frimpong hit the woodwork for Leverkusen within the first half as Bayern repeatedly rode their luck.
Bayern boss Vincent Kompany rolled the cube by bringing on Serge Gnabry, Leon Goretzka and Leroy Sane within the 68th minute nevertheless it did not ignite their assault.
As for English famous person Harry Kane, who has 21 league objectives to his title, he was left feeling just a little worse for put on after his jaw collided with Leverkusen defender Piero Hincapie.
Kane seemed to get on the tip of a Bayern free-kick, however he solely made reference to Hincapie’s shoulder because the Leverkusen defender nipped in to move the ball out for a nook.
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The Englishman gave the impression to be in some discomfort after the problem and required medical consideration.
Fortunately for Bayern, Kane was capable of proceed however he couldn’t add to his 21-goal haul.
In whole, Bayern had simply two photographs the complete sport with neither on track.
Leverkusen finally completed the competition with an anticipated objectives determine (xG) of two.23 to Bayern’s 0.14, emphasising the dominant nature of the house facet’s show.
Alonso’s facet additionally accomplished over 90 extra passes than Bayern.
However Kompany’s facet evaded each haymaker Leverkusen threw at them to safe what may show to be a helpful draw.
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The end result ensured Bayern’s eight-point buffer between them and Leverkusen remained intact as they give the impression of being to wrestle again the league title from Alonso’s facet.
Fortunately for Leverkusen, they maintain an eight-point benefit over third-placed Eintracht Frankfurt, though that would shrink to only 5 factors ought to the latter beat Bundesliga strugglers Holstein Kiel on Sunday.
Leverkusen’s subsequent fixture is in opposition to Holstein Kiel on February 22 whereas Bayern welcome Frankfurt to the Allianz Area the next day.