It is impossible to hope no injured players. Xabi Alonso just expects that all the key players are ready in the crucial match. There will be crucial matches in UEL, Victor Boniface is expected to return to the team soon. If we look at the current news, he will recover in the early of the next month. So, he probably will be in the lineup against West Ham in April 12, 2024.
Source: sabcsport.com
Source: sabcsport.com
Theoretically, games with West Ham should not be a problem for Bayer at all, since West Ham are only 7th in the Premier League and they even have a negative goal difference. But it would be great to see Bayer in the optimal lineup + it would be great if Bayer was 100% ready for a potential game with Liverpool. In the Bundesliga, games don't really matter anymore, there are just various statistical points of interest, like how long Bayer's streak of games without defeat can be and whether they can go through the entire season without defeat.
Leverkusen will face West Ham in the Europa League, if you look at the performance of the two clubs in the domestic league, we will not doubt that Leverkusen is superior to West Ham, but even so they must remain alert to the possibility that West Ham will show a surprise. Because they will definitely want the best results in the European League, namely by advancing to the next round.
Leverkusen must prepare for this as well as possible, and they also have to focus on the Bundesliga, because they are close to winning the title. Don't let it happen that because they are more focused on the European League they forget about the Bundsliga, that will be a deep regret for them. But I'm sure they won't do that.