Quote from: marcous on December 28, 2023, 09:00:53 PM

That's right, Laverkusen has attracted the attention of many people this season to see how the Bundesliga competition is no less interesting than other top European leagues. A competition that rarely occurs, usually we only see Bayern Munchen dominance throughout the season, which is occasionally disturbed by their eternal rival Dortmund. However, this season Xabi offers competition in a new form, his team Laverkusen has won the hearts of many fans at this time.

Xabi career as a successful player earned the respect of his troops, a motivational package that Xabi displayed as his image to the players when implementing strategy. Xabi has become a manager, senior, leader and friend for his squad, a very good role model for managing the dressing room.

Unbeaten in all the competitions they have participated in, it is not impossible that Laverkusen will continue to progress by extending their record and maintaining it until the end of the season. It is a mental pressure for Tuchel and Bayern Munchen, which makes it difficult for the defending champions to sleep soundly, because it is almost a nightmare that Laverkusen is aiming for success this season and at the same time breaking their dominance.

It was imminent that Leverkusen was the one that made a few fans with what they had done in a short period of time and this is surely rarely happening in some clubs last season we all thought that Union Berlin would make sudden progress in making their way in the 1st position in the Bundesliga early on last season, but they crumbled down when Bayern Munich had a clear mind over the things they need to do as Sadio Mane is having trouble getting used to the burden Robert Lewandowski have passed down to him, but was later got an altercation with Leroy Sane that led him to leave Bayern Munich,

As that season passed Leverkusen suddenly had Xavi Alonso who managed to make the team great again, with this sudden outburst of good quality games Leverkusen is showing there are many fans who get bored with the Bundesliga is now returning to the scene, to see why the domination of Bayern Munich is not working anymore as they also have Harry Kane in their team but they are getting bested by Leverkusen,

Quote from: Dewi Aries on December 28, 2023, 09:06:42 PM

Overall, maybe I will also say the same thing as you regarding this match, which if we look in terms of standings statistics, it shows that Dortmund's position is far above, while Darmstadt themselves are at the bottom of the standings in the sense that there is absolutely nothing to expect from them for this season or their overall appearance is very bad so of course if we look at a glance, it is clear that Dortmund are more favored in this match.

However, it is quite reasonable as you say that if we look back at Dortmund's last few matches I think there is absolutely nothing satisfying about their performance, very different from usual. The draws against Mainz and Augsburg are a hot topic of conversation where both of these teams are far below Dortmund but Dortmund can only get a draw in both of these matches. So I think it's only natural that there are some speculations and assumptions that doubt Dortmund in the match against Darmstadt, unexpected results or even worse than the previous two matches are still possible.

Actually, I am not trusting Dortmund in betting for them to win, this is as soon as they have sold a few best players both offensive and defensive while I think the team that got their hands on Jude Bellingham is now a great team and that is Real Madrid and right now Real Madrid is now toe to toe with Girona, making great efforts with every point they are getting as right now they can not let Girona get the lead anymore, and getting back to Dortmund that is why they are now not the rival of Bayern Munich anymore,