bormonchen_baylevrk 2:3 | 23. 08. 2024
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00:00And so, the 62nd Bundesliga season underway.
00:09Nelvady and company having to scurry back for Empong.
00:13Nelvady got his head to it.
00:15Xhaka!
00:17That is what he does.
00:19The Granit Xhaka special.
00:22When he scores, it is a finish like that.
00:27And take that.
00:30It's easy to read.
00:32Suddenly Fringbom was in behind them.
00:35Now he's trying to bend it into a dangerous area.
00:39When it does fall to Granit Xhaka, he just hits it with the outside of his boot.
00:44Goalkeeper does get a touch on it.
00:46Probably goes with his wrong hand, I would say.
00:50Should be going with his bottom hand, not his top hand.
00:53But it's a lovely strike.
00:55Right off the laces.
00:57Bit of bend on it, hit with power.
00:59What a start for Bayer Leverkusen.
01:03Alassane Pleyas.
01:05Kleindienst, that was cleverly done.
01:07Reitz in there, wriggling.
01:09Does he have the angle?
01:10Hradecky.
01:12And he did his job.
01:14An appeal there from Rocco Reitz.
01:17Even though there is a Gladbach man down.
01:21Florian Wiertz.
01:23Victor Boniface.
01:25Scully doing the defending.
01:27Boniface got the break of it.
01:29So close.
01:31My goodness.
01:33Die Passmaschine, they call them.
01:35The passing machine.
01:36You can see why.
01:37Honorat.
01:38Kleindienst.
01:40And testing Hradecky.
01:42Why not?
01:45He's played quite a bit at Lettbach as well.
01:48For Gladbach.
01:49I think he prefers the right.
01:51Tapsoba.
01:54How close was that?
01:56Man, no man, no man.
01:58Stand of the situation.
02:00The right-sided centre-back just stepped forward onto the ball.
02:03Great strike as well.
02:05Hits it with real power.
02:07Probably as hard as Jäger did.
02:10Really good technique.
02:12Gets his standing leg off the ground.
02:13Hits right through the back.
02:16Tapsoba didn't need to make the challenge.
02:19Chipped in quickly.
02:20See if they're paying attention.
02:21Kleindienst.
02:23Didn't miss by much.
02:25I've been using that right-hand side more often than the left.
02:28In the first half, Leverkusen made it look simple.
02:31And who wants it?
02:33It's Grimaldo.
02:34And there is the finish.
02:36Florian Wirth.
02:38Simplicity itself.
02:40Wirth on hand.
02:43And the defending champions here on opening night,
02:46much to the chagrin of Gladbach,
02:48are two to the good.
02:51He slows it down.
02:53Almost ran into his space.
02:55Gied Hofmann.
02:57Gorkin makes a good first save, but it falls really nicely for Wirth.
03:02All he's trying to do is just hit through the back of it.
03:06With power.
03:07Brilliant finish.
03:10It's been a comfortable first half to a certain degree here.
03:14And by Sturger, rather disappointing.
03:17Might be able to keep it alive, though.
03:19And they do.
03:20And Radetzky was there.
03:22Is it going to go out of the line?
03:23It does.
03:26Kleindienst was on hand.
03:29It's a bit of a strange goal,
03:31and a bad one for Leverkusen to concede.
03:35Not a particularly good delivery to start with.
03:38This is the moment that makes it.
03:40The header there.
03:41They're all onside.
03:42Nothing wrong with that.
03:44And there's the finish.
03:47And it is.
03:48The new sign in.
03:50Kleindienst.
03:51With his head, eventually.
03:53It goes down as a header, but not a very usual one.
03:59There it is.
04:01They're back in the game,
04:02and what a time to score just before half-time.
04:04Not too much the goalkeeper can do about it.
04:07Radetzky.
04:08Made a good save.
04:09He can't get there the second time.
04:12And that's why he had to go with his head.
04:14Because if he hadn't gone with his head,
04:15the goalkeeper would have got it.
04:19It wasn't orthodox, but they all count.
04:24And to Tim Kleindienst.
04:27With his first.
04:28That's the question.
04:29He's now going to go and have a look.
04:31He's going to the review area.
04:34Having heard that he's going to have a look.
04:37Having heard from Benjamin Cortes.
04:40If it wasn't such a big decision.
04:43If it was around the middle of the pitch.
04:44Obviously VAR isn't involved in anything around the middle of the pitch.
04:47Probably a foul would be given.
04:50Because he had to make contact with the calf.
04:52Yeah.
04:53In Capier to get to the ball.
04:57There.
04:58Robert Schwerder.
05:02Here we go.
05:03And, yeah, foul.
05:05Indeed.
05:07Duff tailing with Grimaldo.
05:10Can he play over the accurate ball?
05:11Well, he couldn't.
05:12Hofmann.
05:14Just bounced in front of Omlin.
05:18Now with Jonas Hofmann again.
05:22Schaka.
05:23Oh, that was delightful timing.
05:27And Kevin Sturger.
05:28Sturger.
05:35Player poised to make a late run.
05:38Sturger.
05:40And Itakura.
05:41Good header it was.
05:42And there's Hanecki.
05:43But it's turned in.
05:46Well, they've got one back.
05:47This time.
05:48Nico Alvedi.
05:50Dynamic.
05:512-1.
05:54Question mark there.
05:56When the ball was played, it was Itakura.
06:00Offside.
06:03Didn't quite see when the ball was played.
06:04There's a brilliant save.
06:05And now Alvedi reacts quickly on his left foot.
06:09No question mark about...
06:10Oh.
06:11Just hold on.
06:12The referee's had somebody in his ear.
06:18But it's another set play goal for Gladbach.
06:21Here's Boniface.
06:22And Victor Boniface.
06:26Not on the target, however.
06:28And that is what he can do.
06:30And that was very fine play.
06:33Scali.
06:34The American.
06:37Sturger.
06:38Excellent save to the end.
06:40And look what has happened.
06:43There is the equaliser.
06:454-1 was the average of Gladbach.
06:48Oh, Kleindienst.
06:50That arrives.
06:53A scrum of players in there.
06:56And it's a real jolt for the defending champions on opening night.
07:01Kleindienst.
07:05Well, there's the ball played into him.
07:08There'll be another question mark.
07:09There'll be a long delay because he was very tight to being offside.
07:13But he does really well against Tapsova.
07:16Tapsova can't get the other side of him.
07:18He slide challenges the ball almost.
07:22It's a very good finish.
07:23No chance for the goalkeeper.
07:26But a lovely ball rolled into him by Sturger.
07:31And what a turnaround here.
07:33Pulled out of the fire.
07:34And the smoke of earlier.
07:37That delay.
07:38Here's Wiertz.
07:39Here's Grimaldo.
07:40And oh, he couldn't place it on the target.
07:44Well, it shows their quality in and around the box.
07:48This is on his weaker right foot.
07:50He made the space for himself a bit like Boniface did earlier on in the half.
07:54Touched back across the defender.
07:56Now he's just got to pass it in.
07:58Edmond Tapsova spears it in towards Amine Adli.
08:01Grimaldo wanted it.
08:03Can they keep this alive?
08:05Leverkusen.
08:06The centre-half.
08:07And, well, he is going to the review area.
08:11He is going to the review area.
08:13Robert Schroeder.
08:16And with the rain lashing down,
08:19is it going to be raining even harder on Borussia Mönchengladbach?
08:23Stuart.
08:24Well, this is the one.
08:25Does he get the ball?
08:26It's difficult to see from this angle who got the touch.
08:31I think the touch comes from the Leverkusen player and not Ittikura.
08:37And Ittikura gets him on the ankle.
08:40I think he's going to give a penalty here.
08:41He's having one last look, isn't he?
08:43One last angle.
08:46And penalty to Bayer Leverkusen.
08:50Deep end stop.
08:51It's time.
08:52Ittikura continues to come.
08:56That was the moment.
08:58And he doesn't get the ball.
09:01It's a good touch.
09:03And Florian Wiertz is going to be the man to take it.
09:07He wasn't taking penalties until recently.
09:12Well, what an end to the game.
09:14What a moment this is.
09:22On a night of nail-biting tension,
09:24to begin the 60th anniversary of Borussia Mönchengladbach.
09:29Nail-biting tension to begin the 62nd Bundesliga season.
09:36Short run-up from Florian Wiertz.
09:42Only waits.
09:43Wiertz saved, but follows up to score.
09:47It is a story of Leverkusen, yet again, as it was last season.
09:55So it is at the start of this campaign.
09:58Makes a great save.
10:00Can't push it away from the danger area.
10:03And Wiertz is first to it.
10:07That's a decent save.
10:08It wasn't a great penalty.
10:09Unfortunately, it hits his wrist, goes back into the open play.
10:13And there he is, Wiertz.
10:14The other players can't get there.
10:16And that really should be it, shouldn't it?
10:20Well, they'll be very disappointed.
10:22Leverkusen, if they don't see this out now.
10:26They flashed up on the board that the special train will soon be leaving back to Leverkusen.
10:35I'll tell you what.
10:36Leverkusen looked as though they were going to be knocked right off the rails here on Matchday 1.
10:41But they had their own views on that subject.
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