Matchday 18 – the first meeting in the Rückrunde – started at 17.30 CET against Borussia Mönchengladbach. The 2 vs 2 game saw Marc 'MARC_LDW23' Landwehr and Sean 'SEAN_LDW07' Landwehr take on Jannis ‘BMG_JISTENNSQ’ Putz and Lukas ‘BMG_LXKI’ Lange. The B04eSports players won 2-1. Marc Landwehr then drew 2-2 with Mönchengladbach’s Putz, Sean Landwehr lost 3-2 in the final game against the Foals eSports player Lange. That meant matchday 18 ended in a draw.
Werder Bremen were the opponents on matchday 19 and there were plenty of goals in the games. It started with a 2 vs 2 between the Landwehr cousins and Bremen’s Henning ‘HENNING’ Wilmbusse and Berkay ‘BERKAYLION’ Demirci (1-4) and then an 8-4 defeat for Sean Landwehr against Werder’s Demirci. The Black and Reds lost matchday 19.
Three points were gained against Holstein Kiel. The 2 vs 2 between the Leverkusen duo and Julius ‘JULI’ Kühle and Colin ‘COOOLLIIIN’ Völter produced a 3-2 victory and Marc Landwehr wrapped up the overall win with a game to go with a 2-1 win against Kiel’s Völter.
The #B04eSports team remain fourth in the North-West division on 37 points.
The Leverkusen keyboard players are back in action with another triple matchday on Tuesday 30 January. League newcomers VfL Osnabrück are first up at 17.30 CET and that is followed by the match against SC Paderborn 07 (from 19.00 CET). The evening ends for the Black and Reds against Hamburg SV (from 20.30 CET)..
THE RESULTS
Matchday 18
Bayer 04 (D) vs Borussia Mönchengladbach (D)
2 vs 2: 2-1
‘MARC_LDW23’ against ‘BMG_JISTENNSQ’: 2-2
‘SEAN_LDW07’ against ‘BMG_LXKI’: 2-3
Matchday 19
Bayer 04 (L) vs Werder Bremen (W)
2 vs 2: 1-4
‘SEAN_LDW07’ against ‘BERKAYLION’: 4-8
Matchday 20
Bayer 04 (W) vs Holstein Kiel (L)
2 vs 2: 3-2
‘MARC_LDW23’ against ‘COOOLLIIIN’: 2-1
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