Xabi Alonso saluted Bayer Leverkusen’s professionalism throughout their 5-1 rout of Freiburg.
The reigning Bundesliga champions introduced the curtain down on a memorable 2024 in dominant trend at BayArena.
Patrik Schick scored 4 instances whereas Florian Wirtz was additionally on course, as second-place Leverkusen minimize the hole on leaders Bayern Munich to 4 factors once more heading into the winter break.
Alonso chalked up his fiftieth win as a Bundesliga coach after simply 75 matches, with solely Pep Guardiola taking fewer such video games to succeed in the half-century (61).
Nonetheless, the Leverkusen boss was adamant the competition was not as easy for his aspect because the scoreline recommended.
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“The outcome could have been spectacular and Patrik scored 4 objectives, however the recreation was not as straightforward because it appeared,” he advised reporters. “We had a superb opponent, and we needed to put together our actions intelligently.
“When a striker scores 4 objectives, you’ll be able to’t complain. Patrik additionally does quite a lot of work off the ball and when he does that effectively, that’s why he scores the objectives. He helps the staff, and so they make probabilities for him.
“It was a vital victory for us right now. We wished to proceed our sequence and go into the break with a superb feeling. We managed that. We’ll proceed to assault within the new 12 months.
“That provides everybody a superb feeling. Now we have large ambitions to proceed combating for our objectives in 2025, and we need to obtain so much collectively.”
