Re: Germany League - Bundesliga Prediction Thread

A few posts above there was a discussion about whether Robert Lewandowski departure had an impact. Of course, every departure has an impact for a team. That is also the case at work. When someone leaves the job we do not find a 1:1 replacement. But I do not think that is the question or the problem here. The problem is in the defence. They lost because goals were scored against them. So the focus from Bayern should be the defence.

I agree that Lewandowski's departure has had an impact (whether it's bad or not). But I don't agree that they only have defensive problems, because when their defense is good but they can't score it means they won't win the game. I said they played well, it was just that they had problems with finishing, that's what I saw. If they had a good finish, when they conceded one goal and created two, it would have been a win for them.

No. Of course they do not only have problems with the defensive. But what I meant is that we can not take the departure from Lewandowski as the reason for lost games. Of course goals have to be scored. But if the defence has problems it is easier for the opponent to block the offensive and overcome the defence. It would be strange to always win with 4:3, 5:4 and so on. Cheesy

Defense doesn't seem like a problem for them though, it looks like Bayerns biggest trouble right now seems like it is the offense and I understand why it could be like that when you have such a great scorer gone, that means it is going to be a bit of a problem.

I understand that you may imagine defense could be part of it and we can't say Lewandowski as "only" reason, but we can say it is the biggest reason. That team never had to rely on anyone else for scoring, it has been so many years since Lewa played for them and they had a tactic in place, working amazingly for them. That is why we could consider him the biggest reason, and defense having a bit of a role in there too, but a smaller one.

There are reasons for and against your argument. Bayern scored 19 goals in 7 games, which is the top rank in the Bundesliga. I don't know whether it is just a striker who is missing right now. They aren't create enough when they come close to the box. Now they have so many agile players that it is shocking how they lack ideas to crack the opponents' defense.

When you say that Bayern has no problem with their defense, I am not so sure about that. It is not a bad defense, but they are not as solid as they used to be in some of the past seasons. The opponents know that Bayern is making mistakes at times and if you then defend solidly against Bayern and have that one lucky shot (like Augsburg), you can take it home against them.

Bayern gets under pressure when they don't score early. They need to fix that and not lose patience when a game has 90 minutes.