Victor Bonifas scored an additional winner, as Bayer Leverkusen returned from Perkozen from two goals to a 3-2 victory against Derby Cologne’s competitors in the German Cup quarter-finals on Wednesday. Leverkusen was expected to sail against his opponents in the second section, but he found themselves early in the second half, as Damyc Downs and Lenton Mayna scored on both sides of the first half. Staring at the first loss in the competition since July 2022, Florian Wirtz Patrick Chic helped to start the return voltage with 30 minutes remaining.
Then the Schick sent the game to an additional time in the seventh minute of the stop time.
Bonifas, who is playing alongside his striker for the first time this season, closed on the Cross of Alex Grimaldo to put his team on the right track to win.
Cologne seemed to have sent the match to the penalties when Rondic’s workers scored in the 113rd minute, but his goal was canceled in a flyer review for narrow infiltration.
“It was a very difficult game against a discount that was very good, but we have shown a good reaction,” Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso told the reporters.
“Maybe our best game, but we have shown the heart and faith. We fought until the last minute, with patience and kept our structure. We are happy.”
Cologne was deported from the last campaign of the last degree, but it flourished in the Bundesliga 2 and sat with more than half the season.
With fireworks from visiting fans, which led to 10 minutes of stopping in the first half, Downs benefited from some dirty Leverkusen defense of the explosion in the lower left corner before breaking.
Early in the second half, Downs Maia was found in an acre of space and the roaming goalkeeper in the wing Matej Kovar to double the progress of Cologne.
In the 61st minute, Wirtz found the Schke that made the goalkeeper to reduce the progress of Cologne, the ninth time that the German helped in all competitions this season.
The wonderful Leverkusen in the 2023-24 season was characterized by 18 goals after the 90th minute in all competitions, and the German heroes left it again late, the Schick went in a cross in the last minute of the stop time.
With Cologne, Bonifas, who was purified to move to Saudi Arabia in January before a session at the last minute, was the first of Grimaldo’s cross to put Leverkusen in the foreground.
Cologne gathered, but the late tie was excluded by VAR for a narrower side.
Winning means that Leverkusen, who put Bayern Munich in the last round, joins Stuttgart, who beat Augsburg 1-0 on Tuesday, in the semi-finals.
Later on February, Wolfsburg two winners of 2015 Rap Lipzig, while Werder Bremen, who raised the cup on six occasions, played at home against the Arena Peelseld.
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