Leverkusen

Signed soon afterward to join Leverkusen, where he saw twice named Man of the Match in Champions League games but has made few recent appearances.

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Second-half goals from Balazs Dzsudzsak, Jeremain Lens and Marcelo earned PSV a 3-1 win over Lille for a 5-3 aggregate win, while Michael Ballack was among the goalscorers scored as Bayer Leverkusen wrapped up a 6-0 aggregate rout of Metalist with a 2-0 win in Germany.

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The 44-year-old manager, Jürgen Klopp, did a superb job with his players last season and won the league by seven points ahead of Bayer Leverkusen but has lost Nuri Sahin to Real Madrid and his youngsters may struggle with the added expectation that comes with being champions.

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Even in the years of near misses and the agonising 2002 semi-final defeat to Bayer Leverkusen, 1999 sustained the evolution from 4-4-2 to a more tactically varied and multinational approach.

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Michael Bradley 4 in Moenchengladbach's 3-1 loss to Leverkusen

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Casey Stoney, White's central defensive partner who scored from the spot in Leverkusen, was also disappointed by the lack of volunteers.

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Ricardo Clark not in 18 injured for Eintracht's 3-0 loss to Leverkusen

American soccer players abroad 2011

Ricardo Clark not in 18 injured for Eintracht's 3-0 loss to Leverkusen

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Paul Haynes highlighted a similar set-up at Bayer Leverkusen whose badge – "the Bayer cross" – is the emblem of pharmaceutical company Friedrich Bayer and has adorned the club's shirt since 1904 but, crucially, not at the expense of other sponsors names.

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But this was not the case when Bayer Leverkusen striker Eren Derdiyok latched onto a long pass as he made a run into the Wolfsburg penalty area.

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