Goals: 1-0 Fern\u00e1ndez 1\u2019 (assist: Guti\u00e9rrez), 2-0 Medina 28\u2019 (assist: Guti\u00e9rrez), 3-0 Schick 48\u2019 (assist: Quansah), 4-0 Maza 66\u2019 (assist: Schick)<\/p>\n
Leverkusen<\/a> went into the game looking for a first win after an opening-day defeat at promoted Elversberg<\/a>, and made two changes to the starting XI, with Jarell Quansah<\/a> and Facundo Medina<\/a> coming in for Lo\u00efc Bad\u00e9<\/a> and Lucas V\u00e1zquez<\/a>. Meanwhile, Union Berlin<\/a>, who had drawn their opener with Eintracht Frankfurt<\/a>, made three changes of their own, with Frederik R\u00f8nnow<\/a>, Felix Uduokhai<\/a> and Livan Burcu<\/a> all handed starts by head coach Mauro Lustrinelli<\/a>.<\/p>\n Facundo Medina scored the second goal for Leverkusen. – IMAGO\/Eibner-Pressefoto\/Thomas Thienel <\/p>\n Fern\u00e1ndez and Medina give Die Werkself early lead<\/p>\n Leverkusen could hardly have started better: inside the opening minute, Quansah found Malik Tillman<\/a>, who crossed for Miguel Guti\u00e9rrez<\/a>, and the full-back squared for Ezequiel Fern\u00e1ndez<\/a> to finish from close range for the opener. The home side continued to press, with Patrik Schick<\/a> heading against the crossbar from a corner, before Guti\u00e9rrez’s cross found Medina, who headed home for 2-0 in the 28th minute. <\/p>\n Union had barely threatened up to that point, and they managed only a single blocked effort from Josip Juranovi\u0107<\/a> before the half-time break, much to the frustration of the noisy away contingent.<\/p>\n Patrik Schick scored one of the easier goals of his career on Saturday, rolling the ball into the net after being neatly set up by Jarell Quansah. – IMAGO\/Matthias Koch <\/p>\n Schick and Maza add to the tally<\/p>\n In a repeat of the first half, Leverkusen struck again almost immediately after the restart: Quansah drove into space and squared low for Schick, who tapped in for 3-0 inside three minutes of the second period. <\/p>\n In an attempt to drag themselves back into the match and regain control of the midfield, Union brought on\u00a0Tim Skarke<\/a>, Woo-yeong Jeong<\/a> and Janik Haberer<\/a>, but it was the hosts who increased their advantage via Maza<\/a>, who received a ball from Schick, showed nifty footwork on the edge of the box, and finished into the top corner for his team’s fourth.\u00a0R\u00f8nnow, who did his best to keep the Berlin side in the game, produced several subsequent saves to keep the score down.<\/p>\n Leverkusen had nine shots on target compared to Union’s zero. – Pau Barrena <\/p>\n Man of the Match: Ibrahim Maza<\/p>\n Maza was a constant threat down the right, testing R\u00f8nnow early on and setting up several chances before capping the win with a fine finish from the edge of the box for Leverkusen’s fourth goal. He also won more challenges than any other player on the pitch and duly received 49 percent of the vote for Man of the Match.<\/p>\n Ibrahim Maza put in an impressive shift in the Leverkusen attack. – IMAGO\/Axel Kohring <\/p>\n Bundesliga Match Facts Fantasy Heroes: Ibrahim Maza (Bayer Leverkusen, 318 Points), Miguel Guti\u00e9rrez (Bayer Leverkusen, 300 Points), Patrik Schick (Bayer Leverkusen, 283 Points)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bayer Leverkusen cruised past a toothless Union Berlin side 4-0 at the BayArena, with Ibrahim Maza putting in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,190],"class_list":["post-160274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-germany"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117219801687781391","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Facundo](\"https:\/\/www.bundesliga.com\/assets\/placeholder\/resp_live_placeholder_image_16_9.svg\")
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xGoals: Bayer Leverkusen 2.9 – Union Berlin 0.15
Fastest player: Afonso Moreira (Bayer Leverkusen), 34.47 km\/h
Lowest goal probability: 4-0 by Ibrahim Maza (Bayer Leverkusen), 10 percent
Pass efficiency: Facundo Medina (Bayer Leverkusen), +3.93<\/p>\n