Bundesliga Roundup: Relegation threatened Hertha Berlin loses at Leverkusen

BERLIN (AP) — Hertha Berlin’s hopes of edging additional away from the Bundesliga’s relegation zone have been wrecked Sunday in a 4-1 loss at Bayer Leverkusen.

Moussa Diaby, Florian Wirtz and Jeremie Frimpong starred for Leverkusen because it bounced again from two league video games with out a win with a convincing show of attacking soccer. The guests discovered themselves unable to compete with the house group’s pace on the wings.

Frimpong and Diaby mixed down the proper earlier than the latter lower the again for Sardar Azmoun to open the scoring within the twelfth minute, and it was the same story for the second aim within the twenty first.

Frimpong and Odilon Kossounou despatched Diaby racing down the proper and the French ahead lower the ball again for Frimpong to attain, although he may have picked out any of the 4 Leverkusen gamers who ran with him in anticipation of the cross.

Frimpong needed to go off injured within the twenty ninth, by which era the sport already appeared going in a single course solely with Hertha unable to muster a response to the early setbacks.

It continued in the identical vein after the break, when Diaby struck the crossbar after which grabbed the third aim on the hour-mark.

Dodi Lukebakio’s penalty within the 67th offered solely transient respite for the guests, with Amine Adli including Leverkusen’s fourth within the 73rd.

Hertha remained only one level forward of the underside 4 groups _ Stuttgart, Hoffenheim, Schalke and Bochum _ all on 19 factors.

Leverkusen climbed to ninth.

Wolfsburg hosted Eintracht Frankfurt later Sunday.