The game resumed and Eintracht Frankfurt were starting to apply more pressure on Leverkusen than they had in the entire opening 35+ minutes.
They pressed high with speed as a unit and almost caught the opposition off guard right after kick-off.
Lukas stuck to the role Toppmöller had instructed Ekitike to tell him about. He stopped wandering about and started trying to read and dictate the game from deep. He never crossed the halfway line even as Ekitike, Knauff, and Götze pressed high, because he knew if Leverkusen managed to beat the press, one pass to Xhaka and Eintracht's defense would be in deep trouble.
His job, from now on, was to stop Xhaka from getting too much space to pick out passes like they were the easiest thing to do on the pitch.
In the 38th minute, Tah and Mukiele passed the ball around to beat Ekitike's press before sending a clean pass to Xhaka down the middle.
