Patrick Sauer

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1069 Edition

The Bayer Leverkusen Post

21 Jan 2047
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad21 Jan 2047

Miguel Gouveia damages knee ligaments — 82 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 82 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad21 Jan 2047

A one-man rearguard from Philipp Scholz

There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match16 Jan 2047

The small margins put Bayer Leverkusen out

Out, 2‑3 to Bayern Munich, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Squad21 Jan 2047

Niklas Becker takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Player ratings21 Jan 2047

Up for the corner, and Markus Becker delivers — 7.84

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Markus Becker scored, was marked 7.84, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad21 Jan 2047

Patrick Sauer keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bayer Leverkusen may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings21 Jan 2047

A masterclass from Niklas Becker

Marked 9.72 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Match19 Jan 2047

Niklas Becker sends Bayer Leverkusen past FC Augsburg

It finished 3‑2, and it was Niklas Becker’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Bayer Leverkusen.

Player ratings21 Jan 2047

Nobody could get near Marc Groß

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
1058 Edition

The Bayer Leverkusen Post

5 Nov 2046
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces5 Nov 2046

Anger at Bayer Leverkusen spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad5 Nov 2046

A knee injury of the worst kind for Oliver Kühn

78 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bayer Leverkusen lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad5 Nov 2046

Ralf Thomas breaks a bone — 50 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 50 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Boardroom5 Nov 2046

Pressure builds in the Bayer Leverkusen boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad5 Nov 2046

Marc Groß stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Marc Groß and Bayer Leverkusen agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match3 Nov 2046

Bayer Leverkusen see off SC Freiburg

Three points for Bayer Leverkusen, 2‑1 the final word against SC Freiburg in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings5 Nov 2046

Marc Groß was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.30. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings5 Nov 2046

One of those days for Niklas Becker

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.12, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match3 Nov 2046

No time for SC Freiburg to settle

The goal that put SC Freiburg ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Bayer Leverkusen equalised, 4 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.

In brief