Xabi Alonso

 Moussa Diaby of Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Jonas Hector of 1. FC Koln during the Bundesliga match between 1. FC Koln and Bayer 04 Leverkusen at the RheinEnergieStadion on November 9, 2022 in Cologne, Germany. Moussa Diaby scored again as Bayer Leverkusen came from behind to beat Cologne 2-1 in their Rhine derby on Wednesday, giving coach Xabi Alonso his second successive Bundesliga win. The French winger, who wasn’t included in Didier Deschamps’ 25-man squad for the World Cup, scored Leverkusen’s winner in the 71st minute when he applied the finishing touch to a counterattack started by Callum Hudson-Odoi after a Cologne corner. The home team had been better for much of the game. Benno Schmitz scored Cologne’s goal on the half-hour mark when he took Sargis Adamyan’s cross on his ...