Quote from: macson on September 17, 2023, 09:15:42 PM

If last season Leverkusen only succeeded in finishing in 6th place, then this season Leverkusen's chances of stopping in the top 3 are very big, with Alonso's good experience as a football player, he was able to build a strong team in defense and attack, i see his coaching style is similar to Jurgen Klopp. So far, Bayern has always been superior to its opposing team when playing at home, but when facing Leverkusen, the two seem evenly matched, Leverkusen's opponent in the next match is Heidenheim, it will definitely be an easy match for them to win.

For sure this is the best Leverkusen could ever be and a lot has happened but Xavi Alonso remained intact with the things he targeted most and that is Leverkusen's performance and surely planning ways to make their play and studying the other team's position and team plays that is why Leverkusen is now a stable team and that was thanks to Xavi Alonso for sure,

Quote from: Raflesia on September 17, 2023, 09:26:46 PM

It's difficult when the difference is so stark in terms of mentality and strength that even when there is an opportunity, it sometimes seems to be wasted.
For example, last season where it should have been easily obtained by Dortmund because of the determination they only had to win 3 points when they were quite favoured but in the end everything returned to belong to Bayern, which is irrefutable evidence that clubs other than Bayern in the Bundesliga seem to lose hope in the title race.

Leipzig in terms of performance I would not say they are stable but they can always be in the top 4 at the end of the season.
The start of this season they did better than before but I agree with you that it won't be a reference point for the title race because in the end all they're after is probably the top 4.

For sure we all know how Leipzig is doing things that is why they are a team the start of the season they will have a poor start and from that poor start they will manage to get some analysis on what they can do to fix those issues and then they have managed to make it on top again, Leipzig will get a poor start but eventually return back unbeatable and end up on the 3rd or 4th position for sure,

Quote from: Velvet78 on Today at 08:58:08 AM

Leverkusen are really pretty impressive so far. Xabi Alonso is just continuing from where he left. I'm curious about one thing as well. Can they stay in the title race until the end? After seeing them performing really decently in Allianz Arena and stealing a point from them too I started to think about this possibility more.

Leverkusen wouldn't do like Dortmund did at the end in my opinion. They would play much stronger if they play a championship game on the final week of the season. Therefore Bayern Munich had better be as consistent as possible if they don't want to see their title streak ending.

For sure it is not only with the player's capabilities that Leverkusen is striding back up again, it was thanks to their genius coach Xabi Alonso for this is the 1st time that a team is getting positive feedback not because of a player but because of their Coach, for sure even Julian Nagelsmann is not the one they are talking about with the success of Bayern Munich but if you say Bayern Munich all would think was because of Robert Lewandowski and the latest Bayern Munich was not Thomas Tuchel but Harry Kane,