Heidenheim 0-1 Bayer Leverkusen: Buendia snatches late winner to keep title dream alive

Emiliano Buendia’s victor successful second-half stoppage clip kept Bayer Leverkusen’s Bundesliga rubric defence live arsenic they snatched a 1-0 triumph implicit Heidenheim connected Saturday.

Leverkusen looked acceptable to driblet much points successful their pursuit of leaders Bayern Munich, but substitute Buendia emerged from the seat to curl location successful the 91st minute.

The hosts, however, started the contention strongly, with Benedikt Gimber striking the woodwork midway done the archetypal fractional arsenic Leverkusen struggled to make anything.

Alonso’s squad failed to registry a changeable connected people successful the archetypal half, with the Spaniard turning to his substitutes successful the 68th infinitesimal to effort and physique immoderate momentum precocious on.

The caller legs of Arthur and Patrik Schick were introduced, but it was Buendia, who was brought connected 9 minutes later, who registered the decisive moment.

After collecting Jonas Hofmann’s pass, Buendia bent a fantastic effort beyond the grasp of Kevin Muller to seal a immense triumph for the defending champions.

Leverkusen are successful 2nd spot connected 62 points, six down leaders Bayern Munich, with six matches near to play.

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Data Debrief: Leverkusen borderline person to distant time record

For overmuch of the contest, Leverkusen did not look similar a broadside that were challenging for the title. But their prime successful reserve bailed them retired erstwhile again, with different stoppage-time extremity added to their postulation during Alonso’s tenure.

Leverkusen are present unbeaten successful their past 31 Bundesliga distant games (W23 D8), the second-longest tally successful league history. They are present conscionable 2 victories distant from Bayern’s grounds of 33, which they managed betwixt April 2012 and March 2014.

And Buendia’s precocious onslaught brought up Leverkusen’s 200th Bundesliga extremity nether Alonso successful what was his 88th crippled successful the competition. This century, lone Pep Guardiola has reached that milestone quicker than the Spaniard (76 games).