0:2! Regrettably out! The dark horse team suffered its first defeat and missed the final
The white horse passed through the gap, suddenly. Before you know it, March 2024 is a thing of the past, and the new April is quietly coming. It's a new month for us, and for European football, every month of April means that the final sprint of the season has arrived
Whether it is a national league, a domestic cup, or a European competition, the time for the championship to be announced is about to be announced, and all the big teams are going all out to achieve the goals set before the season. This season, German football has been quite eye-catching, as the slump of long-time dominance Bayern Munich has given other teams more opportunities to compete for the title, and the emergence of Xavi Alonso's "pharmaceutical factory" Bayer Leverkusen has been a surprise to the outside world, and they are about to end Bayern Munich's 11-year domination of the Bundesliga title
So far this season, Bayer Leverkusen is the only unbeaten team in the top five leagues, and has won the Bundesliga, German Cup and Europa League. Despite being a European powerhouse, Bayer Leverkusen's honours are too shabby, with only one Europa League and one German Cup. Fortunately, this season the team almost locked up the first Bundesliga title in team history, and the German Cup pharmaceutical company is also the biggest favorite, because among the top four teams, there is only one Bundesliga team, Bayer Leverkusen, and the rest are two Bundesliga teams and one Bundesliga team, especially Saarbrücken from the Bundesliga, which is undoubtedly a super dark horse in German football this season
It's a pity that the dark horse failed to get to the end. At 2:45 a.m. Beijing time on April 3, the semifinals of the 23/24 German Cup began, and the first game was played by Saarbrücken from the German Second Division against the German Second Division team Kaiserslautern. The first half was evenly matched, with neither team able to break down the scoreline, and the score was 0-0, but in the second half, Kaiserslautern suddenly came on to the attack, and Ritter and Armami Toure scored twice in a row. Kaiserslautern beat Saarbrücken 2-0 away to qualify for the German Cup final for the first time since the 02/03 season
Throughout this game, this dark horse duel is undoubtedly very exciting, judging from the technical statistics after the game, Saarbrücken, who is playing at home, is better than Kaiserslautern in possession, shots, corners, passes, pass success rate, tackles, interceptions and many other data. Especially the number of shots on goal, Saarbrücken's 15 shots on goal are far higher than Kaiserslautern's 8, but Saarbrücken does lack in the ability to grasp opportunities, only two shots on target, on the other hand, Kaiserslautern 4 shots on target and 2 goals, good efficiency
Although Kaiserslautern are only third from bottom in the Bundesliga this season and the pressure of relegation is heavy, progressing to the German Cup final has the whole team going crazy and they will wait for the winner between Bayer Leverkusen and Fortuna Dusseldorf. As for Saarbrücken, the 11th-ranked team in the German Bundesliga has brought too many surprises to the outside world in this season's German Cup, defeating Bayern Munich 2:1 in the second round, Frankfurt 2:0 in the 1/8 finals, and 2:1 over Borussia Mönchengladbach in the 1/4 finals