Bayer Leverkusen and RB Leipzig share the points. Wirtz shines – sport

The Lipzig David area’s socks hung far down when he was in the mixed zone on Saturday evening. This offered the opportunity to clear out a doubt: the many tattoos that decorate his right calf had remained unscathed. After a key scene from the just ended game against Bayer Leverkusen, one had already had doubts in this regard, so much as space had curved from pain. “I still have a few prints from Flos Schuh,” said Raum – and also approved the exaggeration that he was “flo” in which “Flo”, ie Florian Wirtz, “two seconds on the calf” for ” Decisive ”.

The scene, she had taken a 2-0 lead in front of Leverkusen’s 2-0 lead, which Leverkusen should then hand over against RB Leipzig. Unlike during the week in the Estadio Metropolitano by Atlético Madrid (1: 2), the Leverkuseners in Leipzig did not lose all points. Due to the 2: 2, the distance between the reigning German champion to the league leader FC Bayern Munich again grew to six points.

“The result could be better. But in the end there is also worse, ”said Bayer coach Xabi Alonso. He alluded to the big goal opportunities that his team had left, especially after the break: “We had the chances of killing the game”. This mainly encountered the Argentinian Exequiel Palacios, who scored almost empty gate, hit the head of Leipzig’s space (47.). After 66 minutes he missed another big chance. Also on Florian Wirtz, who enriched the good game in phases by brilliant deposits and delivered two assists, hit the post three times.

It was “a amazement” to watch Wirtz at work, Leverkusen’s Finnish goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky after the game. He should have spoken out of the soul of one of the numerous guests of honor on the Leipzig grandstand: national coach Julian Nagelsmann, who may be considered the strong performances of his international Wirtz and space as another day winner in Leipzig, alongside FC Bayern.

To the first major protagonist of the game, Wirtz was already swung up by the lead goal, which one of the “four or five top toptop world-class actions” arose, as his trainer Alonso was supposed to praise later. Not only that fulfilled the Basque with satisfaction. The prologue of the gate gave him proof that Wirtz also gains ripe in the small things.

During the week, the Leipziger tinted that they wanted to meet Leverkusen with the same weapons that had led to ATlético on Tuesday in the Champions League. Wirtz had now missed Leipzig Captain Willi Orban on the outer line a small bogus; Afterwards, Orban mimmered the master of “other football”, as Atlético legend Luis Aragonés called it when you try to get the opponent out of the frame with unfair means.

Wirtz curvt over the lawn as if he were performing a figure skating

Orban looked at Wirtz deep in the eye, told him a few things that should be intimidating and put his forehead on the forehead of Wirtz. But see: Wirtz showed up unimpressed what Alonso attributed to the fact that the game in Madrid was “good lessons for him”. So when he got the ball, Wirtz curved over the lawn as if he were not playing football, but appearing at “Holiday on Ice”. Even more: he almost sent Orban onto the floor with a physical decree, let Arthur slide into the void – and put the ball on the post. Patrik Schick (18th) converted the rebound.

The second Leverkusen goal, in turn, brought the two protagonists of the game together: Wirtz and space. And here, too, the prologue was almost more important than the hit. Room grown into Wirtz with reasonably stretched legs, he jumped up and landed on the calf of space. Whether Wirtz really had to balanced on the leg of space as he did was the question that many viewers rushed out. “Duel,” said Alonso. The space, which was just recently recovered by an injury, spoke of “unsportsmanlike behavior” without having further resentment.

In any case, the referee continued to play, and after the Leipziger had control over the ball, it thought it was a good idea to play Wirtz in his feet. Wirtz served the Spanish midfielder Aleix García, who pushed in 2-0 (36.).

But then Leipzig struck back: through a free kick, the room converted almost directly. Leverkusen’s defender Piero Hincapié steered the ball unattainable for Hradecky. “I think with the clarification campaign (Against Palacios, note) And I paid it back a little to the free kick, ”said room later. He also triumphed because the free kick was not taken, although Xavi Simons and Lois Openda also made demands. A Leverkusener was also decisively involved in the equalizer: defender Edmond Tapsoba steered a free kick from Simons into his own goal (85.).

“Annoying and unnecessary,” said Leverkusen’s goalkeeper Hradecky later, after all, the dream of the title defense had been fed back in the league due to eight victories. “Hopefully we can continue to fight for the biggest,” said Hradecky. But the Bavarians have been hung up for the time being.