{"id":4127,"date":"2025-07-18T21:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T21:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/4127\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T21:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T21:14:12","slug":"erik-ten-hags-bayer-leverkusen-beaten-5-1-by-flamengo-u20-in-former-man-utd-boss-first-game-in-charge-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/4127\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik ten Hag’s Bayer Leverkusen beaten 5-1 by Flamengo U20 in former Man Utd boss’ first game in charge | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erik ten Hag endured a nightmare start to life as Bayer Leverkusen manager as his side lost 5-1 to Flamengo U20s.<\/p>\n

Leverkusen became the first Bundesliga club to stage a pre-season tour in South America this summer and the former Man Utd boss named a strong starting lineup in his first game since replacing Xabi Alonso.<\/p>\n

Nigerian international Victor Boniface led the line, while Mark Flekken – a summer signing from Brentford – and 17-year-old Axel Tape – who arrived on a free from Paris Saint-Germain – all started in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n

\"RJ<\/p>\n

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\n It was 4-0 at the break in Rio de Janeiro<\/p>\n

Lorran put Flamengo in front after a rapid counter-attack inside two minutes, and it was 2-0 inside 10 when Arthur miscued a clearance, with the ball trickling into the back of his own net.<\/p>\n

Flekken and Boniface were substituted off with just 36 minutes on the clock, with Niklas Lomb and Alejo Sarco their replacements.<\/p>\n

It got worse before the break, as Matheus Goncalves headed in a cross from the left, before Pedro Leao struck after shot from distance had ricocheted back off the left-hand post.<\/p>\n

\"RJ<\/p>\n

Ten Hag made 10 changes shortly after Gusttavo made it 5-0 following a menacing run in from the flank.<\/p>\n

Granit Xhaka – the subject of an ambitious move from Sunderland<\/a> – Edmund Tapsoba, Alex Grimaldo, Patrick Schick, and former Southampton and Burnley forward Nathan Tella were among those to join the action.<\/p>\n

But a tap-in from Germany U18 international Montrell Culbreath was all they could muster in what remained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erik ten Hag endured a nightmare start to life as Bayer Leverkusen manager as his side lost 5-1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-4127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}