Qatar tribune dpa Berlin Bayer Leverkusen have added the German Cup title to their Bundesliga triumph and completed their maiden domestic double with a 1-0 win against second division team Kaiserslautern on Saturday. Granit Xhaka scored the winner in the 16th minute with a stunning long-distance shot after a sloppy clearance from the Kaiserslautern defence. “I’m proud and happy for the players.
It’s completely deserved,” Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso said. “Tonight I will drink a German beer.” Leverkusen midfielder Robert Andrich said it was a “great, great feeling,” to lift the trophy.
“This moment, when you lift the trophy, it’s simply beautiful.” Leverkusen were down to 10 men since the 44th minute as Odilon Kossounou received a second yellow card for a foul on Boris Tomiak. But Kaiserslautern weren’t powerful enough to capitalize on their numerical superiority, despite an incredible support from their travelling fans.
“Even though we had one more player on the pitch, that makes no difference against this team,” Kaiserslautern coach Friedhelm Funkel said. Funkel’s future at the club, that spent the second division season fighting against relegation, is unsure. But he said the Cup final might have not been his last game with Kaiserslautern.
“I would like to somehow maybe keep it going” This is Leverkusen’s second triumph in the Cup after they took the trophy for the first time in 1993. The win comes just three days after the team led by Al.
