As soon as the last whistles of the hugely disappointed fans from the north curve had fallen silent, Patrik Schick's pent-up frustration was already discharging on the edge of the field.

“That's no longer bad luck!” Rumbled the Czech EM star, who had given the Werkself an actually good starting position in the duel with TSG Hoffenheim with his next two goals (37th / 63rd).

Leverkusen's top scorer made a clear demand on his team after the late goals to 2-2 (1-0): "We have to work on our mentality during the game."

Not only for Schick, who scored the last eight Leverkusen goals and is now chasing Fritz Walter's (10) series record in the Bundesliga from 1987, memories of a similar game only three days earlier were awakened.

The Werkself had already gambled away a two-goal lead at Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday and even received a 2: 5 swat.

Mentality question in Leverkusen

“We were unsure for no reason.

We lead and then make it too casual and don't go into duels.

It's disappointing, of course that makes the mood bad, ”said Bayer captain Lukas Hradecky, who didn't look good when he conceded the first goal.

The Finnish national goalkeeper also asked the mentality question late on Wednesday evening: “We can't gamble away the last home game of the year like that.

Mentality is a shitty word, but we're just too good! "

The form-strong Hoffenheim team took advantage of this negligence in the too “good” Bayer defense in the final phase.

After Schicks goals 15 and 16 of the season, Angelo Stiller (80th) and Munas Dabbur (83rd) gave the Kraichgauers, who had been disappointed to date, with two hits, the point almost out of nowhere and with 27 points are just one point behind Leverkusen Fourth place.

Leverkusen also lost Moussa Diaby (90 + 2), who saw the yellow-red card after a frustration foul.

“That's annoying,” said Bayer coach Gerardo Seoane.

This is "a point that Moussa needs to improve.

He has a few cards too many, and now he has the greatest penalty.

But that's part of the development process of a young player ”.

At least at the end of another messed-up evening, Hradecky was able to improve his visibly bad mood with a healthy irony with a view to the last first round match on Sunday (3.30 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker for the Bundesliga and DAZN) at SC Freiburg: “Maybe we should be there Holding a 1-0 until the end, that sounds like a better plan. "