Bayer Leverkusen: Victory in Copenhagen as a starter for spectacle – Spiegel Online

From Copenhagen reported Daniel Theweleit

The 3: 2 victory in Copenhagen has Leverkusen best opportunities to participate in the Champions League. The offensive convinced it makes the defense before the league start against Dortmund worry.

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“Ah, experts,” he said, and thought for a long as he could hold his feeling for the new game year in words without the material for stories about a challenge to Bayern and Borussia Dortmund deliver. So he said: “It is established at the beginning of the season is always a lot before, and we will definitely provide moments in which we can annoy one or two opponents.”

Despite a start to the season with a 6: 0 in the cup and the precious away win in the Champions League qualification, the next week is to be made perfect in the return game, want Leverkusen remain level-headed. But the enormous confidence that radiates the amplified for 30 million euros team is not to be overlooked. And that has a lot to do with the new game approach to which the committed RB Salzburg coach Roger Schmidt has programmed the team.

After Bayer Leverkusen under the Finnish Stoics Sami Hyypia was quite successful, but beyond the own fans hardly replied someone in enthusiasm, the team will play again attacking, attractive and exciting. In Copenhagen, the team continued their audience now facing a kind of appetizer to the announced spectacle. “We could see pretty good, will let what style Roger Schmidt play,” said CEO Michael Schade, and this style would have been at a more consistent chance of recovery and a “9: may cause 3-win” specified Kiessling

Light-back, problems with standards

The offensive conjured beautiful moments on the lawn and the creative hub of the team advanced as planned access Hakan Calhanoglu. The 20-year-old was preparing the gates of Kiessling (5 minutes) and Heung-Min Son (42) and provided the offensive play with structure. “I initially had the feeling that he is reduced too much on his free kicks and corner kicks,” said sporting director Rudi Völler, “today we have seen, which is a wonderful footballer he, with which suppleness he treated the balls, and as players, the uses. “

After years in which the midfielder has been busy with mainly defensive minded and intent on peace and control strategist who undertook from Hamburg German-Turk embodies the small Leverkusen football revolution more than any other. “I get on very well with him, we are looking for each other,” Kiessling said while Calhanoglu spoke to the dark side of the new Leverkusen football.

Have the team the attended by former Cologne coach Stale Solbakken Danes’ much left too many spaces “, he complained, and coach Schmidt added.” We have our way of playing a lot of ball gains close to the opposing goal, but when it happened that come through balls, our central defenders have to be very concentrated ” Ömer Toprak was this demand, Emir Spahic other hand, had always problems. The almost traditional weaknesses to the full-back positions, which were filled with Giulio Donati and Tin Jedvaj (right) and Sebastian Boenisch (left) are also not out of the world.

The greatest difficulty was the Bundesliga but at set-pieces. Within transformed four minutes Mathias Jørgensen (9) and Daniel Armatey (13) the early goal each after dead-ball into a guide for Copenhagen. “This is unusual for us,” Schmidt said. But after a short period of reorientation factory Self was back to her game, and after Karim Bell Arabis 2: 2 (31) Leverkusen dominance became increasingly clear, however,

Unanswered was the question of how suitable this. Leverkusen football is in duels with stronger opponents, which also will show soon. On Saturday (18.30 clock, live ticker SPIEGEL ONLINE) is the match at Borussia Dortmund on the board, and boring it is as certainly not, if Schmidt keeps his promise: “The way we play, our style will always be similar to today, “he said. This is truly a good basis for the duel with the BVB, which follows a very similar ideology

FC Copenhagen – Bayer Leverkusen. 2: 3 (2: 3)
0: 1 Kiessling (5)
1: 1 Jørgensen (9)
2: 1 Amartey (13)
2: 2 Bell Arabi (31)
2 : 3 Son (42)
Copenhagen: Andersen – Høgli, Nilsson, Jørgensen, Bengtsson – Amankwaa, Claudemir (53 de Ridder), Amartey, Delaney – Cornelius, Kadrii
Leverkusen: Leno – Donati (46th Jedvaj), Spahic, Toprak, Boenisch – Castro, Rolfes – Bell Arabi (83 Brandt), Calhanoglu (88th Drmic), Son – Kiessling
Referee: Velasco Carballo (Spain)
Viewers: 18,221
Yellow cards: Amartey, Cornelius – Bell Arabi, Donati, Jedvaj, Toprak