{"id":430323,"date":"2023-03-19T16:26:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T20:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=430323"},"modified":"2023-03-19T16:26:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T20:26:06","slug":"bayern-munich-lose-2-1-to-stubborn-leverkusen-and-trail-dortmund","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/bayern-munich-lose-2-1-to-stubborn-leverkusen-and-trail-dortmund\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich lose 2-1 to stubborn Leverkusen and trail Dortmund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bayern Munich were defeated 2-1 by a strong Bayer Leverkusen side away from home on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"de\" dir=\"ltr\">Wir verlieren knapp in Leverkusen.<\/p>\n<p>\u26aa <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/B04FCB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#B04FCB<\/a> | 2-1 \u26aa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XgLdz4RSq4\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/XgLdz4RSq4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FC Bayern M\u00fcnchen (@FCBayern) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCBayern\/status\/1637521362876022785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It all looked smooth sailing for Julian Nagelsman&#8217;s men when Joshua Kimmich broke the deadlock in the 22th minutes and gave the visiting side the lead, despite Leverkusen having the edge in the opening stages.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half the Munich&#8217;s defence was sloppy and sluggish as they conceded two penalties, both rewarded with the Interference of VAR.<\/p>\n<p>Exequiel Palacios stepped up for both and the Argentinian showed nerves of steel as he slotted two past Yann Sommer&#8217;s goal to put his team in front.<\/p>\n<p>Despite late surge from Bayern, who missed good chances through Kingsley Coman and Matthijs de Ligt, Leverkusen held on and secured an unlikely victory.<\/p>\n<p>With this defeat, Bayern, who fight on three fronts, surrender the lead to Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga. Bayer Leverkusen climbed up to eight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayern Munich were defeated 2-1 by a strong Bayer Leverkusen side away from home on Sunday night. Wir verlieren knapp in Leverkusen. \u26aa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":430324,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16746,18328],"news_category":[14235,139],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Bavarians loss means they have to play catch up to Borussia in the title race after the International break","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/430323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/430323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430323"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=430323"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=430323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}