Leverkusen’s coach, Xabi Alonso, plays with Boniface’s confrontation with his teammate Buendía

Frankfurt, Germany (AP) – Leverkusen’s coach, Xabi Alonso, has made Victor Boniface’s furious reaction against a teammate during the team’s bundesliga victory in Eintracht Frankfurt.

Boniface lashed out against the Argentine end Emilian 4-1 victory on SaturdayAnd he had to be calmed by teammates. Jeremie Frimpong tried to reason with Boniface, who was also closely followed by Alonso when she left the field after the game.

“I talked to Boni,” Alonso said at the press conference after the game. “I don’t have all the details, but Boni wanted to shoot, it can happen. We don’t want to do something big with something so small. We stay quiet. Monday we will continue again. “

Both Bonifacio and Buendia were substitutes and the goals were already marked when they continued.

Buendia joined in the winter transfer window from Aston Villa, while Boniface has suffered a disturbing period, first with an injury to the thigh suffered with Nigeria in November, then as an object of a transfer of 70 million euros to the Al-Nassr of Saudi Arabia that break down.

Leverkusen striker Patrik Schick seemed to criticize Bonifacio when negotiations with Al-Nassr were ongoing when he said he still had “ambitions to play at a higher level.”

Leverkusen was apparently open to let Boniface leave and, according to the reports, it is still an objective for the Premier League Newcastle club.

Boniface has 21 goals in 37 Bundesliga games since Union Saint-Gilloise joined in 2023, but its impact this season has been limited due to Schick’s injury and availability. Boniface has 10 goals in all competitions this season, compared to 21 last season.

Leverkusen then faces the leader of the Bundesliga Bayern Munich in the last 16 of the Champions League, for the first time in Munich on Wednesday with the game back in Leverkusen on March 11, with a game at home against Werder Bremen in the middle.

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