VfL Wolfsburg suffered a 2-0 defeat away to Bayer Leverkusen as Matchday 25 came to a close. The Wolves had to contend with Moritz Lenz being sent off in the 28th minute and then set about defending their own penalty area with all that they could muster, but did not have enough up front to come away with a point.
Bayer 04 Leverkusen: Hradecky – Stanisic, Tapsoba, Tah, Hincapie (59‘ Adli) – Xhaka, Palacios (90’ Andrich) – Tella (76‘ Hofmann), Wirtz (90‘ Hlozek), Grimaldo – Schick (76’ Iglesias)
Subs: Lomb (GK), Kossounou, Mbamba, Puerta
VfL Wolfsburg: Casteels – Lacroix, Jenz, Zesiger (87‘ Behrens) – Baku, Gerhardt (88‘ Wimmer), Arnold, Paredes – Majer (63‘ Vranckx), Tomas (63‘ Sarr) – Wind (32’ Bornauw)
Subs: Pervan (GK), Fischer, Rogerio, Svanberg
Goals: 1-0 Tella (37‘), 2-0 Wirtz (86‘)
Yellow card: Adli / Gerhardt
Red card: Jenz
Referee: Daniel Siebert (Berlin)
Attendance: 29,314 at BayArena, Leverkusen