Peter Bosz’s side looked to be back on track after winning at Gladbach, then lost at home to struggling Arminia Bielefeld
The fall is always, it seems, on the way after the slippery part of the road has been negotiated. In a difficult start to 2021 for Bayer Leverkusen, Peter Bosz has tried many things to shake his team out of their funk. This week, the coach prescribed to the old adage of never changing a winning team. He kept the same XI that won, crucially, at Borussia Mönchengladbach last week, the first time that he had named the same starting line-up for successive Bundesliga matches in over a year. Trust appeared to be the watchword of the week.
So why, then, when Leverkusen knew a win would lift them back into the top four, was it Arminia Bielefeld celebrating on the Bay-Arena pitch by mid-Sunday afternoon? Make no mistake, they deserved to on a day of landmarks, with a first win for new coach Frank Kramer and only a second away win of the season. The other had been at doomed Schalke, which accounted for half of the six-point yield from their previous 11 away games this term.
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