Lucas Alario is missing Bayer Leverkusen also at the Ligastart - Gerardo Seoane

It was a last test. Under the exclusion of the public, the new Werkself-Trainer Gerardo Seoane took his team in the Ulrich-Haberland stadium in a game over twice 30 minutes long before the mandatory start in a competition under the magnifying glass. He saw against the third division Viktoria Köln, who has already denied two mandatory games, a 0: 1 defeat. Viktorias Federico Palacios scored the only hit of the game in the 4th minute.

In addition, Lucas Alario was not used against Viktoria. The attacker had ended the Tuesday training prematurely due to adductor problems. On Wednesday there was the diagnosis. It is a small muscle fiber dissection in the adductor area. The Argentine international will have to pause a good two week and is missing Bayer not only in the first DFB Cup on Saturday at Lok Leipzig, but at least at the beginning of the Bundesliga season at Union Berlin.

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Seoane had scheduled the secret test, of which the only result and the scores of the club were announced after a preparation that the Swiss himself classified as "bumpy".

So the first test match of Leverkusen against SV Wehen Wiesbaden had failed due to heavy rain. Even a training day in the training camp in Austria had fallen victim to the water masses. And even after returning to Leverkusen Bayer and Seoane lost a training day after giving a heavy explosion near the BayArena and the hazard situation had not allowed training outdoors. In addition, the test games (0: 0 against Freiburg, 1: 5 against Utrecht, 3: 1 against Oberhausen) rather sobering.