{"id":478878,"date":"2024-02-23T17:26:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T21:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=478878"},"modified":"2024-02-23T17:26:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T21:26:44","slug":"leverkusen-beat-mainz-2-1-for-11-points-lead-at-the-top","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/leverkusen-beat-mainz-2-1-for-11-points-lead-at-the-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Leverkusen beat Mainz 2-1 for 11 points lead at the top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bayer Leverkusen won against Mainz 05 \u2013 2-1 at BayArena as Xabi Alonso\u2019s side is 11 points ahead of Bayern Munich as the club also beat Bayern\u2019s unbeaten streak record with today\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n<p>The home side needed only 3 minutes to score the 1<sup>st<\/sup> goal in the match. Granit Xhaka received the ball on the edge of the box and fired with his 1<sup>st<\/sup> touch as the ball went straight under the crossbar. That was the Swiss midfielder&#8217;s 1<sup>st<\/sup> goal in a competitive match since 2015.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u25aa\ufe0f Bayer Leverkusen go 11 points clear at the top of the Bundesliga<\/p>\n<p>\u25aa\ufe0f Xabi Alonso&#39;s side become the first German team ever to go 33 matches unbeaten in all competitions <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/djI3YZPPx3\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/djI3YZPPx3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Athletic | Football (@TheAthleticFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticFC\/status\/1761140141882577026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, only 5 minutes later, the visiting side shocked the fans at BayArena as Dominik Kohr headed the ball into the net after Silvan Widmer\u2019s assist.<\/p>\n<p>Until the end of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half, The Company&#8217;s Eleven had 2 great chances to score, but they missed them both. Mainz 05 midfielder Dominik Kohr also wasted a great opportunity after a corner to score.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half, the visiting team wasted another great chance to score again as Phillipp Mwene missed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Granit Xhaka has scored a Bundesliga goal for the first time since September 2015; it&#39;s his first for Bayer Leverkusen.<\/p>\n<p>And he trolled the entire stadium with the celebration. \ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JJehzQs5ef\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/JJehzQs5ef<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Squawka Live (@Squawka_Live) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Squawka_Live\/status\/1761112939895890385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Black and Reds finally took the lead in the 68<sup>th<\/sup> minute. Robert Andrich made a not-so-great shot, but Robin Zentner made a shocking mistake, and the ball went into his net, and Leverkusen took the lead 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Ngankam left Mainz 05 with 10-man on the pitch after receiving a red card for a shocking tackle against Granit Xhaka.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83e\udd75 BAYER LEVERKUSEN GO 33 GAMES UNBEATEN IN ALL-COMPS! \u2728<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s now a German record. Big credit to Xabi Alonso and his team. \ud83d\udd1d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W378Jsjdqv\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/W378Jsjdqv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; EuroFoot (@eurofootcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eurofootcom\/status\/1761139623697289600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Leverkusen are 1<sup>st<\/sup> in Bundesliga with 61 points after 23 matches \u2013 11 more than 2<sup>nd<\/sup> placed Bayern Munich, but the FCB have a game in hand.<\/p>\n<p>Mainz 05 are in the relegation zone in the 17<sup>th<\/sup> place with 15 points after 23 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayer Leverkusen won against Mainz 05 \u2013 2-1 at BayArena as Xabi Alonso\u2019s side is 11 points ahead of Bayern Munich as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":478880,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18049,18158],"news_category":[139,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[19445,22698,396],"acf":{"announce":"Bayer defeated Mainz 05 and is very close to winning the title in the Bundesliga.","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\/478878"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478882,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478878\/revisions\/478882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478878"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=478878"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=478878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}