Jonas Hofmann

Central Midfielder - Bayer Leverkusen
26 Jan 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Jonas Hofmann

16 Edition

The Bayer Leverkusen Post

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

James Trafford keeps Bayer Leverkusen in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Robert Andrich

Defensive actions: 27. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Loïc Badé

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 24 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad

Tempers go at Bayer Leverkusen

Exequiel Palacios was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Jonas Hofmann gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Martin Terrier

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

In brief

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13 Edition

The Bayer Leverkusen Post

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Niklas Lomb

30 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.

Match

Bayer Leverkusen win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 92th minute. Hamburger SV will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Mark Flekken

There were 6 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.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Bayer Leverkusen — 7.70

1 for Robert Andrich, marked 7.70, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad

Tempers go at Bayer Leverkusen

Patrik Schick was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings

The game went through Jonas Hofmann — 6.81

Marked 6.81 on 13 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

In brief