Bayer Leverkusen beat RB Leipzig 2-0 as Patrik Schick's scoring streak continues

Bayer Leverkusen ended a run of one win in three with a 2-0 victory over RB Leipzig at the BayArena, and it was Miguel Gutiérrez who did the damage at both ends of the pitch — teeing up Patrik Schick for the opener before adding the second himself.

Schick's goal kept up what bundesliga.com described as his continuing scoring streak, the striker finding the net once more after starting the season in form in front of goal. Gutiérrez's own goal turned a narrow lead into a comfortable one, and Leipzig — who had won two of their first three league games — never found a way back into it.

Leipzig's mixed week continues

The defeat capped an uneven stretch for RB Leipzig, who had beaten Hamburger SV 5-0 in their previous league outing but lost 4-1 away to Como in the Champions League in between. Ole Werner's side arrived at the BayArena on the back of a 3-0 win over Borussia Mönchengladbach to open the campaign, but the alternating pattern of results — win, loss, loss, win before this latest defeat — means they are yet to string together consecutive league wins this season.

For Leverkusen, the win arrests a different kind of inconsistency: an opening-day loss to newly promoted SV Elversberg, a bounce-back win over Union Berlin, and a draw at Augsburg meant the club had taken four points from a possible nine before this weekend. Beating a Leipzig side sitting in the Bundesliga's top half changes that picture heading into the international break.

What's next

The result lifts Bayer Leverkusen to 5th in the Bundesliga table on 7 points from four games, inside the European qualification places, while RB Leipzig drop to 9th on 6 points. Both sides now break for the international window before Bundesliga matchday 5.