Bayer Leverkusen battled to a 2-1 win over hosts VfL Wolfsburg on Saturday with goals from Jeremie Frimpong and Spaniard Alejandro Grimaldo, to stay in the top spot in the Bundesliga with their seventh win in eight league matches. Unbeaten Leverkusen is on 22 points, one ahead of second-placed VfB Stuttgart, 3-0 winners at Union Berlin, and two ahead of Borussia Dortmund in third. Champions Bayern Munich, in fourth place on 17, face Mainz 05 later on Saturday. In a strong start to the game, Leverkusen piled on the pressure and Frimpong was left unmarked at the far post, volleying in a Victor Boniface cross in the 13th minute to put Xabi Alonso's team in the driving seat. Leverkusen should have scored again in the first half with chances from Boniface and Amine Adli.
Instead, it was the Wolves who struck four minutes before the break when Leverkusen failed to clear a corner and the ball fell for Maxence Lacroix who slotted into level. Stuttgart achieved its sixth successive victory and seventh this season, when it defeated Union Berlin, a surprise last season, which had disappointing results this season by suffering its sixth successive defeat in the league and eighth in various competitions.