Bayer 04 Leverkusen 5-1 Darmstadt 98: result and report

Bundesliga · Saturday 2 September 2023

Result

Bayer 04 Leverkusen 5-1 Darmstadt 98

Bundesliga · Saturday 2 September 2023, 13:30 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Bayer 04 Leverkusen 5-1 Darmstadt 98: match report

Bayer 04 Leverkusen defeated Darmstadt 98 5-1 in the Bundesliga on Saturday 2 September 2023. The half-time score was 1-1.

Victor Boniface opened the scoring in the 21st minute. Bayer 04 Leverkusen's goals came from Victor Boniface (21'), Exequiel Palacios (49'), Victor Boniface (61'), Jonas Hofmann (67') and Adam Hložek (83'). Darmstadt 98 scored through Oscar Vilhelmsson (24').

Discipline: Bayer 04 Leverkusen received 3 yellow cards; Darmstadt 98 received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Bayer 04 Leverkusen were 3rd on 6 points from 2 and Darmstadt 98 17th on 0 points from 2. Bayer 04 Leverkusen went on to finish that season 1st with 90 points, and Darmstadt 98 18th with 17.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Darmstadt 98 in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Victor Boniface of Bayer 04 Leverkusen (9.7), ahead of Granit Xhaka (8.2).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Bayer 04 Leverkusen wins, 0 draws and 1 for Darmstadt 98.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 21'Goal · Victor BonifaceBayer 04 Leverkusen · 1-0
  • 24'Yellow card · Jonathan TahBayer 04 Leverkusen
  • 24'Goal · Oscar VilhelmssonDarmstadt 98 · 1-1
  • 26'Yellow card · Exequiel PalaciosBayer 04 Leverkusen
  • 31'Yellow card · Granit XhakaBayer 04 Leverkusen
  • 49'Goal · Exequiel PalaciosBayer 04 Leverkusen · 2-1
  • 53'Yellow card · Oscar VilhelmssonDarmstadt 98
  • 61'Goal · Victor BonifaceBayer 04 Leverkusen · 3-1
  • 67'Goal · Jonas HofmannBayer 04 Leverkusen · 4-1
  • 80'Yellow card · Christoph KlarerDarmstadt 98
  • 83'Goal · Adam HložekBayer 04 Leverkusen · 5-1

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Bayer 04 Leverkusen 3, draws 0, Darmstadt 98 1.

Team news

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  • Patrik SchickBayer 04 Leverkusen · injury (Tear in the abductor muscle)

Bayer 04 Leverkusen line-up (3-4-2-1)

Lukas Hradecky, Odilon Kossounou, Jonathan Tah, Edmond Tapsoba, Jeremie Frimpong, Exequiel Palacios, Granit Xhaka, Alejandro Grimaldo, Jonas Hofmann, Florian Wirtz, Victor Boniface

Darmstadt 98 line-up (3-4-1-2)

Marcel Schuhen, Christoph Klarer, Christoph Zimmermann, Thomas Isherwood, Matthias Bader, Bartol Franjic, Fabian Holland, Fabian Nürnberger, Marvin Mehlem, Luca Pfeiffer, Oscar Vilhelmsson