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For the Bundesliga Bayern Munich were still quite dominant in the previous few seasons, even though they recently lifted the trophy in a difficult way. This season the presence of Leverkusen changed everything and Bayern Munich became the team that was not the favorite for the Bundesliga title. Leverkusen's dominance is still so strong that Xabi Alonso's team is unbeaten and they play much more consistently than Bayern Munich as the king of the Bundesliga.

Their domination started to be challenged more by competitors in the last season and they nearly lost Bundesliga to Dortmund. They won it very luckily by a late goal from Musiala and with a bad draw from Dortmund in a final match day of 2022- 2023 season.

In this season, the trend continues and it even becomes worse. Bayern Munich are competing with Leverkusen that have better stability than Dortmund in the last season and with eight points more than Bayern Munich, Leverkusen temporarily have very good gap to secure their first position. They have better chance than Dortmund to beat Bayern Munich and win Bundesliga.

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Bayern Munich is not much of a favorite right now because of some of the disappointing results they have had in previous matches. Lazio's aggregate is not big and maybe Bayern Munich can make a comeback in the second leg because the match will take place at Bayern Munich's home ground. Now it depends on Tuchel and how they can get a win in the second leg, as people say that Tuchel is not the right coach to handle Bayern Munich now.

They will not lose Bundesliga to Leverkusen but if they have to choose between Bundesliga and Champions League, they will choose Champions League. If they beat Lazio and go to quarter finals, they will not be too far from the final match. They will possibly keep fighting in both competitions as in Champions League, with knock out format, it will be risky to be eliminated. In Bundesliga, it is a long run so Bayern Munich will not give up soon.

For now they stand the chance to lose the Bundesliga this season because already Bayern Leverkusen points is far higher than the points of Bayern Munich and even there performance Bayern Leverkusen is still more better because they have both meet on this season and do to how good and impressive performance Bayern Leverkusen has been they were able to beat Bayern Munich 3:0 on there last meeting, so perhaps is crystal clear that it has almost become impossible for Bayern Munich to beat Bayern Leverkusen on the league table of this Bundesliga because Bayern Munich has already lose form and they are no longer the strong team they are during the beginning of this season, so even if they choose to win Bundesliga trophy beating Bayern Leverkusen will be almost impossible for them, so perhaps since they have an upper chance on the champions League they should just channel all there energy on the champions League so that they will not be distracted.