Stuttgart share Leverkusen’s growth of having finished this campaign with a barely believable 40 points more than last
was what has come to be typical of them. The voracious feasting on opponents’ mistakes, as Amine Adli did to provide Victor Boniface with the opener. The evidence that Xabi Alonso has drawn things from these players they never dared believe were there, when midfield destroyer Robert Andrich tucked in an artful rabona.
Learning to trust your underdogs who play like champions has been the theme of this Bundesliga campaign. Look at VfB, who share Leverkusen’s growth of having finished this league campaign with a barely believable 40 points more than the season before. If Alonso and his team are moving in different circles now, that is perhaps even more so for Sebastian Hoeness and his players.
No talk of underdogs would be complete without Heidenheim, the top-flight debutants set to be the next beneficiaries of Leverkusen’s brilliance. Should Alonso and company complete the domestic double by beating Kaiserslautern in the Pokal final next Saturday, last season’s Bundesliga 2 champions and their long-serving coach Frank Schmidt will reach the Conference League courtesy of the eight place secured with their 4-1 final-day victory over Köln.
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