Bayer Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso said his side need to turn the pain of their Europa League defeat into a win in Saturday's German Cup final LinkedIn
Energetic and dynamic this season with a taste for late goals, Leverkusen looked a shadow of the team which thundered past Bayern Munich to win their first ever Bundesliga title this season. A loss will recall the club's infamous 'Neverkusen' season in 2002, when they somehow emerged empty-handed despite being five points clear in the league with three games remaining, while also qualifying for the German Cup and Champions League finals.
Winger Jonas Hofmann summed up the club's struggles on Wednesday night, lamenting"many mistakes, individual mistakes, bad passes and simple technical errors," saying the performance was"not Bayer-like". Despite the disappointment, beating Kaiserslautern would make Leverkusen just the sixth side in German football history to do the double - an incredible achievement for a team which had two major trophies to their name before this season started."If we don't win the triple, then we will win the double.""We've got a very important game ahead of us - we can't afford to talk ourselves down too much.
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