{"id":8622,"date":"2023-11-13T04:17:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T22:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/13\/bundesliga-2023-24-leverkusen-stretch-winning-run-by-beating-union-4-0-to-reclaim-top-spot\/"},"modified":"2023-11-13T04:17:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T22:47:18","slug":"bundesliga-2023-24-leverkusen-stretch-winning-run-by-beating-union-4-0-to-reclaim-top-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/13\/bundesliga-2023-24-leverkusen-stretch-winning-run-by-beating-union-4-0-to-reclaim-top-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Bundesliga 2023-24: Leverkusen stretch winning run by beating Union 4-0 to reclaim top spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unbeaten Bayer Leverkusen thundered past embattled Union Berlin 4-0 on Sunday to extend its winning run to 12 matches across all competitions and move back to the top of the Bundesliga with a two-point advantage over Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n<p>In-form Alejandro Grimaldo rifled in from outside the box in the 23rd minute to put the host in front, with Leverkusen missing several more chances in a strong first half.<\/p>\n<p>Odilon Kossounou headed in another goal in the 57th minute before Jonathan Tah volleyed in at the far post in the 73rd to put the game to bed.<\/p>\n<p>The host was not yet done and substitutes Amine Adli and Nathan Tella combined on a quick break with the latter drilling in from a tight angle in the 83rd.<\/p>\n<p>Xabi Alonso\u2019s team, which has scored at least twice in each of its league matches so far this season, has now won its last seven Bundesliga games.<\/p>\n<p>Leverkusen is leading the title race on 31 points, with Bayern Munich in second place on 29. VfB Stuttgart is third on 24.<\/p>\n<p>Union\u2019s ninth straight league loss saw it drop to 18th place, level on six points with Cologne.<\/p>\n<div class=\"comments-shares share-page\">\n<p class=\"comments\">\nComments\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In-form Alejandro Grimaldo rifled in from outside the box in the 23rd minute to put the host in front before Leverkusen walloped Berlin 4-0 on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-sport-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}