With former #B04eSports player Marvin Hintz as coach, Sean "Sean_LDW07" Landwehr opened the clash with Darmstadt. He put opponent Piotr "POL_BEAST4" Wrona under early pressure and deservedly took a 1-0 lead after 18 minutes, which is how it stayed until half-time. After saving a penalty, Sean extended this lead to 3-0. Wrona did pull a goal back in the 67th minute, but Landwehr didn't concede any more and saw out a deserved opening victory for Leverkusen.
Sean's cousin Marc "MARC_LDW23" Landwehr naturally wanted to build on this victory in his one-on-one match. However, the Leverkusen player fell behind against Darmstadt's Kaan “XKAAN61_” Tuncer after just five minutes. There were numerous chances for both sides after that, but the next goal didn't come until the 70th minute – and it belonged to Landwehr! With this equaliser in his singles match behind him, the #B04eSports player was now more determined and crowned the cousins' play-off appearance with a late double strike and another 3-1 win.
As a result, the Leverkusen team have reached the final of the Virtual Bundesliga Club Championship for the third time in a row. This will be played in a knockout format, where the next opponents are Hamburger SV. It kicks off in the Hanseatic city on Saturday 7 March at 17:00 CET. The match will be shown live HERE on the VBL Twitch channel.
#B04eSports had finished the league phase in ninth place overall, missing out on the top eight - who qualify directly for the final round - by just one point.
The European jersey has been launched, the UEL opponents have been drawn – and anticipation for the European campaign is running high. To mark the occasion, an autograph session was held on Friday afternoon, 28 August, at the Fanwelt with current Werkself player Montrell Culbreath and official club legend Paulo Sergio.
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After six and a half years, Exequiel Palacios is leaving the Bundesliga and moving from Bayer 04 to the Premier League. The Argentine, who as a Werkself player won the World Cup with his national team four years ago and finished as runners-up at this summer’s tournament, will play for newly promoted English side Ipswich Town with immediate effect. The 27-year-old, whose contract in Leverkusen was due to run until 30 June 2030, joined Bayer 04 in January 2020 as a promising young talent. He steadily developed into one of the best defensive midfielders in the German top flight.
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When Exequiel Palacios moved from the Argentinian club River Plate to Bayer Leverkusen on 1 January 2020, the then 21-year-old could not have imagined just how successful the next six and a half years would be for him. Pala, as he is known, had already won the Copa Libertadores – the most prestigious competition in South American club football – with River Plate. But there were still so many more trophies to come.
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To mark Exequiel Palacios’s departure, we’ve put together a compilation of the midfielder’s finest and most important goals from his six-and-a-half years at the club.
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