'Not normal': Club on brink of football immortality
Bayer Leverkusen is two games from European football immortality.
The new champion of Germany has two cup finals in four days — starting on Thursday (AEST) in the Europa League against Atalanta — to complete a previously unthinkable unbeaten season in domestic and continental competition.
On Sunday (AEST), Leverkusen will be heavily favored to win the German cup final against a Kaiserslautern team that finished 13th in the second division, not so far from falling into relegation playoffs.
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In another streak-saving Europa game, at West Ham in the quarterfinals, Leverkusen was set to advance on aggregate score yet needed an 89th-minute goal by wing-back Jeremie Frimpong to draw 1-1 and stay unbeaten.
“We don’t want to wait until the last seconds of the game,” said Patrick Schick, whose three stoppage-time goals against Qarabag in March were key to advancing 5-4 on aggregate. “We would like to make it clear, really, earlier.”
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