Bochum's late leveller thwarts Leverkusen
Koji Miyoshi produced an 89th-minute equaliser to snatch struggling Bochum a 1-1 draw against defending Bundesliga champion Bayer Leverkusen.
Patrik Schick fired Leverkusen into an 18th-minute lead after he was sent through by Florian Wirtz's superb ball before threading through Patrick Drewes's legs, with his strike hitting the post and rolling in.
Bochum, with new head coach Dieter Hecking on the bench, was by no means overrun, working hard in defence to shut down spaces but lacked more clinical finish up front.
Those profligate struggles ended late on as Miyoshi slammed home from close range to salvage a draw for the hosts.
The draw leaves Leverkusen, which lost 4-0 at Liverpool in the UEFA Champions League in midweek, in fourth place on 17 points, nine behind leader Bayern Munich.
Leverkusen seemed on course for a battling away victory, until Miyoshi's last-gasp leveller proved pivotal for Bochum.
Alonso's side has now dropped 11 points from winning positions in the Bundesliga this season, no team has lost more.
That is in stark contrast to last season when Leverkusen became just the second team in Bundesliga history to not drop a single point from a winning position over an entire campaign, and made winning late as Bochum did here something of a specialty.
Alonso offered a blunt assessment of the performance after the match.
"It is the same feeling as against Kiel," Alonso said.
"We again could not finish the game with a win and conceded before the end an equaliser. We have to do that better. We have to keep working on that and learn to handle it and secure the three points.
"Bochum were disciplined at the back and we did not do well in the last third of the pitch. We just were not good enough."
