Trainer Xabi Alonso from the reigning double winner Bayer 04 Leverkusen offers in the Bundesliga home game against the VFL Bochum for the first time this season his two Goal scorer Patrik Schick and Victor Boniface Together in the starting eleven. The two center forwarders were only on the pitch three times this season, but Boniface was always substituted. The Nigerian had with a lively short assignment in the away win in Stuttgart (4:3) recommended.
Schick (left) and Boniface in the game against Cologne
Photo: Imago/Gladys Chai from the Lange/Imago/Gladys Chai from the Lange/Sid/Imago/Gladys Chai from the Laage
Against the relegation candidate (8.30 p.m./Ligaportal live ticker) Alonso builds on regular defender Piero Hincapié, who was still challenged with the Ecuadorian national team in Chile on Wednesday night. The Werkelf wants to shorten the gap to leaders FC Bayern Munich to three points.
The game is “Super important”now be “The moment when everything can decide. We want to put as much pressure as possible”Alonso, who had left his future in Leverkusen open on Thursday, emphasized.
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