Bayer 04 Leverkusen

Bayer 04 Leverkusen

1st Bundesliga | 22-0-4
  • Goals For
    2nd
    66 GF
  • Assists
    2nd
    49 A
  • Shots
    2nd
    406 Shots
  • Saves
    1st
    0 SAV
  • the Guardian

    Streich and Kovac departing as loose lips herald end of Bundesliga stints

    As Freiburg's players stood in the corridors of Stade Europa-Park picking the bones out of a draining week, ending in the just-finished, narrow defeat by the runaway leaders, Bayer Leverkusen, and which had incorporated a chastening, emphatic Europa League exit at West Ham, perhaps guards were down, careless words falling out of leaden lips. The defender Christian Günter, approaching the mark of 400 first-team games for the club, spoke of his hope that the Bundesliga's longest-serving coach, Christian Streich, would stay on, despite the sense of a season denouement with no contract extension signed by the man in charge. Streich confirmed what had been suspected for a while on Monday morning with a simple, stark video piece directly down the camera released by the club. It is not just that Streich has turned Freiburg into an established top-half Bundesliga club, that he has led them into the back end of the Europa League for successive seasons, that he has transformed the scale and the expectations of the club in leading them to the all-new Europa-Park, all things which are more than noteworthy.