May 5, 2024 – 9:59 p.m
Bayer Leverkusen players celebrate their latest success – Photo: Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP
Bayer Leverkusen, this year’s gold medalist of the German Bundesliga, won the El match 2-0 in Rome on Thursday, and played the training video in Frankfurt on Sunday followingnoon. Frankfurt are fighting for sixth place, but Xabi Alonso’s side ran over them, beating them 5–1.
With this, Leverkusen went 48 games without losing, which set the record of the Portuguese Benfica, which was built between December 1963 and February 1965. The next level is the 49-game streak achieved by two top league teams this century, Arsenal and Juventus. The English set their record in 2003-04, the Italians in 2011-12. Leverkusen’s 49th unbeaten game might come as early as next Thursday in the second leg once morest AS Roma, and if it happens, they will be guaranteed a place in the final of the Europa League in Dublin.
The next magic number might already be 53, this series was established by Bayern Munich between 2012 and 2014, when Jupp Heynckes was the head coach, and in 2013 the hat-trick (BL, championship, cup) came together.
The momentum of the Serbian Crvena zvezda and Porto lasted even longer than that, although the Serbian league is now very far from a top league, the Portuguese league is even worse. The absolute record holder of the 21st century on the other hand, Gibraltar’s Lincoln, which between 2009 and 2014 went 88 meetings unbeaten.
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