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Tremendous Eagles legend Sunday Oliseh has despatched his congratulations to Victor Boniface after the Nigeria worldwide led Bayer 04 Leverkusen to a primary Bundesliga title on Sunday, Soccernet.ng stories.
Boniface was certainly one of Bayer Leverkusen’s finest gamers because the German membership claimed the league title for the primary time in historical past after beating Werder Bremen 5-0 on the BayerArena.
How Leverkusen received the Bundesliga
Bayer Leverkusen had by no means received the German league title for the reason that membership was established 119 years in the past. Die Werkself had completed as runners-up on 5 completely different events, although.
Nonetheless, the 2023/24 season will stay indelible within the reminiscences of hundreds of thousands of the membership’s followers worldwide.
It’s an enormous celebration inside BayArena as Leverkusen win their first Bundesliga title. I can see previous women and men and their youngsters hugging and crying and chopping up blades of grass and partying. What a time it’s for this metropolis and its crew.
Meisterchale!!! Bundesliga champions. pic.twitter.com/9roePOVWIM
— Lolade Adewuyi (@Jololade) April 14, 2024
Bayer Leverkusen have been unbeaten in 29 league video games, profitable 25 and drawing 4 whereas scoring 74 targets and conceding solely 19 – for the second-best assault and finest defence within the division.
After beating Werder Bremen, Bayer Leverkusen boast 79 factors – 16 greater than second-placed Bayern Munich – with 5 video games to play.
Xabi Alonso and his males knew a win over Werder Bremen on Sunday can be sufficient to carry residence the Bundesliga title.
And nothing might rob them of that historic second as Boniface gave Leverkusen the lead from the penalty spot halfway into the primary half.
The Nigerian ahead assisted the membership’s second objective scored by Granit Xhaka shortly after the interval. Substitute Florian Wirtz added a 22-minute hat-trick to verify of the win and ship Leverkusen followers into jubilations.
Nathan Tella additionally featured for the primary 62 minutes of the encounter.
Document-equalling Boniface, Tella
Boniface and Tella change into the primary Nigerians since Sunday Oliseh to win the Bundesliga title.
Na God pic.twitter.com/LDXlnRN9sH
— Victor Boniface (@boniface_jrn) April 14, 2024
Pascal Ojigwe received the Bundesliga title with FC Kaiserslautern in 1998, and Sunday Oliseh repeated the feat with Borussia Dortmund in 2002.
Boniface contributed 11 targets and eight assists in solely 18 matches to Leverkusen’s title triumph.
The 23-year-old striker additionally has 5 targets and two assists in six Europa League video games to assist the Germans put one foot within the competitors’s semifinals.
Leverkusen are additionally by way of to the finals of the DFB Pokal, with Boniface netting two targets in his solely two appearances in that match.
Nathan Tella will also be happy together with his contribution to Leverkusen’s historic title win.
The previous Southampton man scored 5 targets and added two assists in 20 video games for Leverkusen, solely 5 of which had been within the beginning lineup.
Oliseh’s AFCON prediction
Shortly after Boniface matched Oliseh’s German title feat, the previous Borussia Dortmund midfielder took to social media platform X (previously Twitter) to felicitate together with his youthful compatriot.
They mentioned there is a first time for all the pieces, so Boniface made certain the primary was his. 😉🇳🇬 pic.twitter.com/bvQGAyylww
— CAF (@CAF_Online) April 14, 2024
Oliseh applauded Boniface’s key qualities that make him so essential for Bayer Leverkusen and Nigeria.
The previous Juventus star then expressed his conviction that Boniface would lead the Tremendous Eagles to glory on the Africa Cup of Nations.
“Victor Boniface was as soon as once more extraordinary as Leverkusen grabbed its first ever Bundesliga title with 5 video games left to play. Boniface is robust, skillful, clever, cell, calm below stress and I’m satisfied he’ll lead Nigeria to AFCON glory & extra quickly. Congrats,” Oliseh wrote.
Victor Boniface was as soon as once more extraordinary as Leverkusen grabbed it is first ever Bundesliga title with 5 video games left to play. Boniface is robust,skilful,clever,cell,calm below stress and i’m satisfied he’ll lead Nigeria to AFCON glory & extra quickly. Congrats Bro!! https://t.co/NpfHvEkKR1
— Sunday Oliseh (@SundayOOliseh) April 14, 2024
It could be recalled that damage saved Boniface out of Nigeria’s problem on the 2023 AFCON, the place the Tremendous Eagles completed as runners-up behind host Cote d’Ivoire.
Extra wins await Boniface and Bayer Leverkusen
With the Bundesliga within the bag, Bayer Leverkusen can now flip their consideration to the 2 different competitions they will nonetheless win this season.
The newly minted German champions can nonetheless elevate the UEFA Europa League and the German Cup.
— Bayer 04 Leverkusen (@bayer04fussball) April 14, 2024
Leverkusen are by way of to the finals of the DFB Pokal, a contest the place Boniface has two targets in solely two appearances.
The Germans even have a foot within the semifinals of the Europa League after beating 1-0 West Ham within the first leg of their quarterfinals conflict.
Boniface scored one of many two targets that downed the English Premier League campaigners on Thursday – his fifth within the competitors this time period.
He’ll look to make an identical impression when the 2 meet in London for the return fixture on Thursday.
