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Bayer Leverkusen moved within touching distance of a first Bundesliga title by beating 10-man Union Berlin 1-0.<\/strong><\/p>\n Florian Wirtz\u2019s penalty gave Xabi Alonso\u2019s side a ninth successive win to stretch their lead over Bayern Munich to 16 points with six games remaining.<\/p>\n Bayern gave their title rivals a helping hand by letting a 2-0 lead slip to lose 3-2 at mid-table Heidenheim.<\/p>\n Leverkusen can end their long wait to be crowned German champions by winning at home to Werder Bremen next weekend.<\/p>\n Their coronation, however, is almost inevitable, with Alonso\u2019s unbeaten outfit needing just three points from the final 18 available to secure the championship.<\/p>\n Leverkusen will no doubt be keen to finish the job at the first time of asking in front of their own supporters.<\/p>\n They were frustrated in Berlin by several saves from Union keeper Frederik Ronnow, before the breakthrough came in first-half stoppage time after Robin Gosens saw a second yellow card for scything down Nathan Tella.<\/p>\n From the free-kick that followed, Christopher Trimmel handled Piero Hincapie\u2019s shot and, following a long video assistant referee check, Wirtz stroked home from the spot.<\/p>\n Leverkusen remain on course for a remarkable treble, having reached the German Cup final in midweek by thrashing Fortuna Dusseldorf 4-0 and they now prepare for the visit of West Ham in the Europa League quarter-final first leg on Thursday.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The post Bayer Leverkusen beat Union Berlin to inch closer to title<\/a> first appeared on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Bayer Leverkusen moved within touching distance of a first Bundesliga title by beating 10-man Union Berlin 1-0. Florian Wirtz\u2019s penalty gave Xabi Alonso\u2019s side a ninth successive win to stretch their lead over Bayern Munich to 16 points with six games remaining. Bayern gave their title rivals a helping hand by letting a 2-0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}