All being well, Bayer Leverkusen will end this season with one record, two trophies and just three haunting, existential questions.
Could Leverkusen’s manager, Xabi Alonso, have steered his team to an unbeaten treble?
Leverkusen has, after all, illuminated the European season like no other team.
It has overtaken Benfica as the owner of the longest unbeaten run in European soccer since World War I.
And it has done it all, in case nobody has mentioned it, in Alonso’s first full season in management.
Persons:
Exequiel Palacios, Ademola, Granit Xhaka, Edmond Tapsoba, Xabi Alonso
Organizations:
Bayer Leverkusen, Europa League, Leverkusen, Atalanta, Benfica
Locations:
Dublin