It’s January, but Bayer’s agony started at the beginning of December and there is no end in sight. Gerardo Seoane is in his first season as Bundesliga manager and his first crisis is over a month-long now. On December 4th, Leverkusen defeated Greuter Furth 7-1 and haven’t tasted a victory since. Bayer has played 5 games in all competition since and managed three losses and two draws, the last one from Union Berlin at the beginning of the second part of the season. The home team took an early lead through Czech Schick, but soon Union Berlin scored two until Jonathan Tah equalized 6 minutes until the end to give his team one point. Bayer missed an opportunity to finally end their crisis and overturn Freiburg at the fourth spot, while Union Berlin had a chance to overturn Bayer at the fifth position in Bundesliga. 17 – Bayer 04 Leverkusen’s Patrik Schick has scored 17 goals in this season’s #Bundesliga, more than any other Leverkusen player had previously managed to score on the first 18 matchdays of a BL season. Thriving. #B04FCU pic.twitter.com/QE4NW4pjFq— OptaFranz (@OptaFranz) January 8, 2022 Leipzig made an emergency coach change at the beginning of December when Domenico Tedesco was put in charge and so far, he managed one win, one draw and one loss, but today he added another line in the win column: Leipzig – Mainz 4-1. Andre Silva, an expensive acquisition from Frankfurt was finally in a mood and scored a brace, while veteran Nkunku and Hungarian Szoboszlai added one apiece to lift Leipzig to the 8th place. In other games in Round 18 of the Bundesliga, Hoffenheim won 3-1 against Augsburg, while Freiburg managed only a draw against relegation struggling Armenia. Still, the biggest surprise of the 18th round is surely Borussia Monchengladbach’s win at Allianz Arena over Bayern on Friday. Borussia Dortmund faces a tricky away game at Frankfurt in tonight’s last game, as the Millionaires are looking to decrease their difference with Bayern, which now stands at 9 points.
