Freiburg 2-4 Bayer Leverkusen
Goals: 1-0 Höler (3'), 1-1 Alario (29'), 1-2 Alario (42'), 1-3 Amiri (64'), 3-2 Petersen (72'), 2-4 Tah (76')

Freiburg got off to the perfect start when Lukas Kübler's through ball down the right wing found Lucas Höler in behind Edmond Tapsoba and the Leverkusen defence, with the striker making no mistake as he fired past Lukas Hradecky with the outside of his right boot inside just three minutes. Jonathan Schmid then had a thumping volley ruled out for an earlier offside before Bayer were handed a lifeline by VAR as referee Benjamin Cortus overturned his decision to send Sven Bender off for his challenge on Höler as last man. The visitors never looked back from that moment as Alario continued his hot scoring form to latch onto a poor pass back from Nicolas Höfler and slot home under Florian Müller. The Argentine then completed the turnaround before the break as Freiburg again shot themselves in the foot by failing to clear their lines. Lars Bender's low cross from the right was then clinically dispatched by Leverkusen's top scorer off the inside of the near post.

Vincenzo Grifo came close to an immediate response after half-time as he bent a shot just wide of the far post. A third mistake by Höfler again proved costly as Leverkusen extended their advantage just past the hour mark when Florian Wirtz intercepted a pass and sent Nadiem Amiri away, who cut back onto his right foot and rifled a shot past Müller from the edge of the box. Freiburg's all-time top scorer Nils Petersen had come on just a moment earlier and did what the Bundesliga's top-scoring substitute of all time does so well by tapping home a drilled low cross from Grifo to get the hosts back to within one goal of parity and extend his record to 26 goals from the bench. That hope of a point didn't last long, though, when a Leverkusen substitute, Jonathan Tah, headed home a Kerem Demirbay corner with a quarter of an hour remaining to move Die Werkself up into fourth place.

Alario brace extends Leverkusen's unbeaten start

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