Match highlights
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Bayer Leverkusen vs VfB Stuttgart highlights
How the goals came
14' Ermedin Demirović opens the scoring for VfB Stuttgart → 22' Jamie Leweling extends VfB Stuttgart's lead → 28' Patrik Schick pulls one back for Bayer Leverkusen → 51' Bilal El Khannouss extends VfB Stuttgart's lead (the winner) → 65' Ermedin Demirović extends VfB Stuttgart's lead → 79' Ibrahim Maza pulls one back for Bayer Leverkusen. Full time: 2-4, VfB Stuttgart win.
The match, goal by goal
3 of the 6 goals came after half-time.
14' Ermedin Demirović (VfB Stuttgart) 0-1
Fourteen minutes into a goalless match at the BayArena, VfB Stuttgart broke through away from home. Ermedin Demirović scored to make it 0-1. Bayer Leverkusen would answer twice before the end, but Stuttgart never surrendered the lead they took here, closing out a 2-4 win.
22' Jamie Leweling (VfB Stuttgart) 0-2
Eight minutes after the opener, Jamie Leweling doubled the visitors' advantage in the 22nd minute for 0-2. Inside the first half-hour, VfB Stuttgart had built a two-goal cushion at the BayArena. Bayer Leverkusen were left chasing the match early in front of a crowd of 30,210.
28' Patrik Schick (Bayer Leverkusen) 1-2
Leverkusen's two-goal deficit did not last long. In the 28th minute Patrik Schick pulled one back for 1-2, the third goal of a first half that had barely passed the half-hour mark. The home side were back within one.
51' Bilal El Khannouss (VfB Stuttgart) 1-3
Six minutes after the restart, VfB Stuttgart stretched the lead again. Bilal El Khannouss made it 1-3, undoing the ground Schick had recovered before the break. With not quite 40 minutes left, Leverkusen were two goals adrift once more.
65' Ermedin Demirović (VfB Stuttgart) 1-4
In the 65th minute Ermedin Demirović scored his second of the match to make it 1-4. Added to his 14th-minute opener, it gave VfB Stuttgart a three-goal lead on the road. With about 25 minutes remaining, Leverkusen needed three goals just to draw level.
79' Ibrahim Maza (Bayer Leverkusen) 2-4
Ibrahim Maza scored Leverkusen's second in the 79th minute for 2-4. It proved to be the final goal of this Matchday 8 fixture on 31 October 2026, and the score stayed there. Schick and Maza had the home side's goals, but four conceded were too many to overturn.
