LEVERKUSE – VfB Stuttgart fired 4 objectives previous hapless hosts Bayer Leverkusen in a lop-sided first half on Saturday to cruise to a 4-1 Bundesliga victory after the three-week winter break.
The guests fully dismantled Leverkusen within the opening half as Jamie Leweling scored twice earlier than the hosts pulled one again with a 66th-minute Alex Grimaldo penalty.
Stuttgart climbed to 29 factors in fifth place, stage on factors with Leverkusen in fourth and third-placed RB Leipzig, who’ve a sport in hand following the postponement of their match at St. Pauli because of snow. Borussia Dortmund are second on 33 with leaders Bayern Munich, on 41, taking part in VfL Wolfsburg on Sunday.
Stuttgart shocked the house crowd when Leweling drilled in for a Tenth-minute lead. Leverkusen struggled to discover a approach again into the sport and it was Stuttgart who scored once more with Maximilian Mittelstaedt sending keeper Mark Flekken the incorrect method to convert his Twenty ninth-minute penalty.
Stuttgart keeper Alexander Nuebel did effectively to cease an Ezequiel Fernandez shot with a one-handed save within the hosts’ greatest probability within the first half nevertheless it obtained worse earlier than the break with the guests scoring twice.
Leweling discovered simply sufficient house to unleash an unstoppable shot and Deniz Undav bagged one other deep in stoppage time to compound Leverkusen’s first-half distress.
