Sunday, April 2, 2017

Mario Gomez 3, Bayer Leverkusen 3

On the same weekend that Robert Lewandowski scored a hat trick against Augsburg, Mario Gomez [Wolsburg] did the same thing against Bayer Leverkusen. This game was infinitely more entertaining than the Bayern-Augsburg matchup [Bayern won, 6-0]. Leverkusen was on cruise control, leading 2-0 late in the second half when Gomez scored his first goal in the 80th minute. Three minutes later, Gomez struck again to even the score 2-2. Leverkusen were shell-shocked but Gomez wasn’t done. In the 87th minute, Jakub Blaszczykowski drew a foul in the penalty area, and Gomez made the penalty kick to put Wolfsburg up 3-2. But wait! There’s more! Just when you thought Wolfsburg were going to walk out of the BayArena with a win, Leverkusen’s Kai Havertz tied the score (assist by Karim Bellarabi) in the 89th minute with a left-footed shot from the left side of the box to the center of the goal. There were four minutes of injury time, but the game ended with a 3-3 draw.

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