DFB Cup, semi-finals: Bayer Leverkusen against Fortuna Düsseldorf in the live ticker
Hot duel in Leverkusen! It’s about reaching the DFB Cup final – which team will face 1. FC Kaiserslautern? The high-flyers of the Bayer team will meet second division team Fortuna Düsseldorf, who are themselves in the promotion race. The game from 8:45 p.m. in the live ticker.
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DFB Cup, semi-finals
Bayer Leverkusen – Fortuna Düsseldorf 3:0 (3:0)
1:0 Frimpong (7th), 2:0 Adli (20th), 3:0 Wirtz (35th)
Bayer Leverkusen: Kovar – Stanisic, Tah, Tapsoba – Frimpong, Andrich, Xhaka, Grimaldo – Adli, Schick, Wirtz
Fortuna Düsseldorf: Kastenmeier – Siebert, Hoffmann (46th Quarshie), Oberdorf – Zimmermann, Johannesson, Engelhardt, Ihoya – Klaus (46th Sobottka), Mustapha, Tzolis
The five-yard box is cleared at the corner, but then he hesitates for far too long. Instead of passing the ball himself, the Czech tries the cross pass. That was played badly.
Tzolis is extremely unfortunate today, the Greek is picking up the pace and wants to get through in front of the box. Andrich is very attentive and intercepts the pass.
A long ball from Fortune: Zimmermann hits the ball towards the Bayer goal, but Kovar is there well ahead of Mustapha.
Next corner for the Bayer team, which this time is taken briefly. Ultimately, there is no danger in front of the Fortuna case this time.
Bayer is immediately picking up speed again. Frimpong splashes through on the right side but can’t find Adli in the middle.
Daniel Thioune makes two changes at half-time: Sobottka and Quarshie come on for Hoffmann and Klaus.
And that’s it for now! After a very experienced and calm game, Bayer leads 3-0 against Fortuna Düsseldorf at half-time and already has one foot in the cup final.
There’s a big chance for Fortuna before the break! Hoffmann steals forward and is found at the height of the five-yard box. The captain completes the volley, but does not fully hit the ball. Kovar has a bit of trouble following up on the ball.
The game is approaching halftime. Maybe the fortunes can be collected again, although it will be a very difficult undertaking.
After a long time, another offensive action from Fortuna! Siebert takes heart from a distance, but the ball goes at least two meters past Kovar’s box.
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11:50 a.m.: Fortuna Düsseldorf will have to do without key player Ao Tanaka for a short time in the semi-finals of the DFB Cup at Bayer Leverkusen. The 25-year-old Japanese was operated on due to “acute appendix problems,” as the second division soccer team announced on Wednesday.
Tanaka is the Düsseldorfer’s player with the third most minutes played in the league this season. He scored seven goals across all competitions in the current season – including in the cup quarter-finals at FC St. Pauli.
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Bayer Leverkusen – Fortuna Düsseldorf
April 3, 2024 | 8:45 p.m
Bayer Leverkusen’s success is also being closely monitored in the coach’s home country. Before the Bundesliga table leaders’ cup semi-final against Fortuna Düsseldorf on Wednesday (8.45 p.m./ZDF and Sky), a Spanish journalist also traveled to the Rhineland for the press conference. Xabi Alonso answered his questions in a good mood in Spanish and then patiently translated them and the answers for the German journalists.
The 42-year-old translated “family and friends” when asked what he misses most about Spain at the moment: “But it’s the last two months until the summer. When I’m on vacation, I want to come back with a success and something to celebrate.” Which means something like: With a title!
Alonso currently has several options open to him. “But we still have to go the rest of the way,” he said: “In the cup, in the Bundesliga and a little more in the Europa League.” There, Leverkusen are in the quarter-finals against West Ham United, they lead the Bundesliga with 13 Points lead, in the cup they are the last first division team in the semi-finals. “A lot of people in Spain are following Bayer Leverkusen right now,” said the Basque Alonso: “They want to see us and enjoy our football. And they are happy to see that we can develop a good idea and be successful.”
In addition to Alonso, who became world champion and twice European champion as a player with the Spanish national team and is also considered a long-term coaching candidate at Real Madrid, other Spaniards are part of Bayer’s success story. Club boss Fernando Carro was born in Barcelona, left-back Alejandro Grimaldo made the leap into the Spanish national team via Leverkusen at the age of 28, striker Borja Iglesias came to the Rhineland on loan in the winter, and three Spanish assistants are also on Alonso’s staff.
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