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Leverkusen (dpa) - Four days after beating Borussia Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen said goodbye to the Bundesliga championship race.

In the factory duel against VfL Wolfsburg, Leverkusen conceded their fourth defeat in the last six games in a 0: 1 (0: 1).

The deficit on leaders FC Bayern Munich could increase to ten points on Sunday if the series champions win at FC Schalke 04.

Before the start of the negative series, the Leverkusen team was still the front runner.

In addition, Julian Baumgartlinger may have seriously injured his knee five minutes after being substituted on.

In contrast, the Wolfsburg-based company is fully involved in the fight for the Champions League places.

Due to the victory, which was not undeserved after a tactically very disciplined performance, Lower Saxony moved up to fourth, level on points with Leverkusen.

National player Ridle Baku scored the winning goal (35th).

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The Leverkusen wanted to take the momentum from 2-1 against Dortmund and started strong.

Lucas Alario, who was allowed to play again from the start because Patrick Schick was injured, was twice close to the 1-0 early on.

In the third minute, VfL defender Maxence Lacroix shot the ball in front of the nose at the last moment, and another three minutes later the Argentine headed the inside post after a cross from Moussa Diaby.

After about ten minutes of teething problems, the Wolfsburg team managed to calm the game down a bit.

The Lower Saxony, who were able to fall back on their striker Wout Weghorst despite knee problems, were not at first dangerous.

At Bayer, Florian Wirtz did not hit the ball correctly on Diaby's presentation (29th).

And suddenly it was 0: 1 when Wolfsburg's best offensive player Renato Steffen crossed and Baku headed completely unprotected.

After 16 Bundesliga games for VfL, the 22-year-old has now scored three goals.

As many as in Mainz before in 50 missions.

At Bayer, right-back Timothy Fosu-Mensah, brought in from Manchester United, made his debut for Bayer six days after his first training session with the Werkself.

He replaced the - once again - ailing Lars Bender, who, according to the club, suffered a bruise on the back of the head.

Wolfsburg was now even lower, Leverkusen ran up with a lot of possession, but lacked the necessary creativity and imagination.

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After an hour, the hosts seemed to run out of strength and Wolfsburg freed itself more and more.

Weghorst also had the 0: 2 on the foot, but failed from a tight angle to Lukas Hradecky (67th).

Bayer coach Peter Bosz now risked everything, made three changes in the 74th minute and switched to 3-5-2.

It didn't work.

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