Bundesliga: Boniface Will Have To Fight For His Place - Alonso

Bundesliga: Boniface Will Have To Fight For His Place - Alonso

Sampson Adedeji

The coach of the German Bundesliga champions Bayer Leverkusen, Xabi Alonso, has insisted that injured Nigeria's Super Eagles striker Victor Boniface will have to fight for his place when he recovers from injury, BSNSports.com.ng reports.

The Nigerian International got injured while representing the Super Eagles during the last rounds of the 2025 African Cup of Nations qualifier.

Since then, he has yet to play for Leverkusen, and Patrick Schick has taken advantage of his absence and is scoring for fun.

The Polish star has scored 8 goals in 9 games and he scored 4 goals last weekend against Freiburg.

" I have difficulty in choosing players to use in all the positions, I like to have it.

" What we want is that everyone is fighting for a position to get better and help the team.

“We’ll have so many games, all the players will have their moments. But the most important is that in the same way that Patrik Schick is in good form, we want to have Boniface in good form as well. We want him fully fit so that he forgets his injuries, he is working hard on the pitch, and scoring goals.

"Boniface and Schick decide who plays because the one that deserves and proves himself usually gets the chance", he told OmaSports.