Bundesliga LIVE: Bayer Leverkusen vs Werder Bremen score & updates

Summary

Xabi Alonso's side win league with five games to spare
Bayer Leverkusen are unbeaten in 29 league matches this season
Werder Bremen start the day in 12th spot in the table
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Live Reporting

Neil Johnston

Goodbyepublished at 19:00 British Summer Time 14 April
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The celebrations in Leverkusen are going to go on long into the night.
Their team are champions of Germany for the first time.
Will Xabi Alonso follow it up by winning the Europa League and German Cup?
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Hamid: Completely unexpected at the beginning of the season. This is not even a team with £120m worth of individual players...kudos to effective team work.
Postpublished at 18:55 British Summer Time 14 April
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BuxBeta: Congratulations Xabi! Fully deserved. What an achievement.
Postpublished at 18:50 British Summer Time 14 April
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Record breakerspublished at 18:48 British Summer Time 14 April
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Bayer Leverkusen
Bayer Leverkusen (29) have set a new Bundesliga record for longest unbeaten run from the start of a league campaign.
The old record was 28, set by Pep Guardiola's Bayern Munich in 2013-14.
Postpublished at 18:43 British Summer Time 14 April
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Postpublished at 18:42 British Summer Time 14 April
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Bayer Leverkusen
Amid all of the celebrations, it's worth pointing out Bayer Leverkusen have won the league with FIVE games to spare.
They also remain unbeaten in 43 competitive games this season.
This was their 38th win.
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Leverkusen are the 13th club to win the Bundesliga, and the first new champions of the league since Wolfsburg in 2008-09.
The last time Leverkusen won a trophy was on 12 June 1993, when they defeated Hertha Berlin's second team 1-0 in the German Cup final.
Current scenes in Leverkusenpublished at 18:35 British Summer Time 14 April
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Postpublished at 18:32 British Summer Time 14 April
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Now they're playing 'Eviva Espana' over the speakers in tribute to the work of Xabi Alonso. They'll be commissioning a statue of the Spaniard after this.
Postpublished at 18:30 British Summer Time 14 April
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Goosebumps!
Truly joyous scenes in Leverkusen.
Fans are jumping up and down on the pitch which is a sea of red and black.
Strangers are hugging one another and dancing to the music over the speaker.
Postpublished at 18:27 British Summer Time 14 April
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Hat-trick hero Florian Wirtz has not managed to get off the pitch. He is being hugged, kissed, patted. Wirtz is laughing and smiling.
This is a day Bayer Leverkusen will never forget.
Postpublished at 18:25 British Summer Time 14 April
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These are astonishing scenes. There are grown men wearing Leverkusen shirts in tears. Flags, banners, scarves are being waved. You cannot see the pitch as there are so many people on it.
Postpublished at 18:23 British Summer Time 14 April
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Florian Wirtz's third goal was the last kick of the match.
There are now thousands of fans on the pitch.
It's all appears good natured.
FULL-TIMEpublished at 18:21 British Summer Time 14 April
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BAYER LEVERKUSEN ARE CHAMPIONS OF GERMANY.
GOAL - Bayer Leverkusen 5-0 Werder Bremenpublished at 18:19 British Summer Time 14 April
Florian Wirtz
They cannot stop scoring!
Florian Wirtz has his hat-trick after finishing from inside the box despite the attention of two defenders.
It sparks another pitch invasion. This time there are hundreds on the pitch.
Postpublished at 18:18 British Summer Time 14 April
Bayer Leverkusen 4-0 Werder Bremen
89 minutes.
The word is there is going to be no added time.
Leverkusen are almost there.
Postpublished at 18:18 British Summer Time 14 April
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A word about Leverkusen's players, who could easily have been caught up in the emotion of today. They haven't. They have produced a thoroughly professional performance and demonstrated why they are the best team in Germany.
Postpublished at 18:16 British Summer Time 14 April
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Thick red smoke from pyrotechnics fills the pitch as play resumes.
Four minutes left plus stoppages.