Xabi is a coach who can learn a lot from a defeat, but it wouldn't be right to expect the same performance as last year. They are the only team in Bundesliga history to become champions without defeat. This shows that there will definitely be defeats in the league, last year's extraordinary performance was an exception. They are one of the championship candidates in Bundesliga again. There will be a tighter competition with Bayern this year.
It was just a matter of time that this will be happend that Leverkusen will lose a game but i was surprised on this one.
They was in front with 1 goal when i was looking at the live ticker and they played at home against Leibzig.
About the competition with Bayern i agree but there are other and more Teams that will be getting into this race also.