Michail Antonio’s early goal was not enough.
Newly-crowned Bundesliga champions Bayer Leverkusen's trip to Borussia Dortmund on Sunday is arguably their biggest hurdle in achieving a perfect league season. Of Leverkusen's remaining league fixtures, facing Dortmund away therefore represents the biggest hurdle to breaking these records.
Liverpool crashed out of the Europa League after a 1-0 win against Atalanta that wasn't enough to overturn their quarter-final deficit, while Bayer Leverkusen's 1-1 draw at West Ham took the German champions into the last four on Thursday.Fresh from clinching their first Bundesliga title last weekend, Leverkusen survived a scare from West Ham before advancing 3-1 on aggregate.
The Hammers went out 3-1 on aggregate.