i have to say that I expected some more resistance from Leverkusen. Now I still went with a draw in the German Bundesliga prediction pool, but to be honest Leverkusen didn't deserve it. It was such a one-sided game. The passes completed. Sure against Bayern in the Allianz Arena, you can never expect to be on eye-level with them in terms of ball possession, but this is quite a bit too passive for Leverkusen. I know that they prefer to play counter attacks in these games against teams that love ball possession, but they are still Leverkusen and can maintain the ball within their own lines and play smart passes between the lines. This looks more like they used any opportunity to hoof the ball out of their own half of the pitch. That's very uncommon for them and they can be pretty happy about that one point.
In a difficult place, with a less impressive game, Leverkusen was still able to bring home 1 point. In my opinion, it was a strategy to dampen Bayern Munich attack line which was in top form. True, at first glance Leverkusen looked like they were playing to get a draw at the Allianz Arena, and they managed to do so. For Kompany, failing to get full points was a loss, because they should have been able to take advantage of the home game better. In the future, Kompany must try to experiment, so that his squad is able to create more creativity when facing a team that has a solid defense. The two goals scored in the match were very interesting, in my opinion it was truly sensational.
That's indeed, Bayern Munich's draw against Leverkusen feels like a loss to me. It's a frustrating result. We had a good game. We pressed them with 70% possession. We created many chances but could not capitalize on them.
We definitely should’ve won it. And compared to how we played against them last season, we were exponentially better. Our improvement forced them to park the bus for basically 90 minutes; it shows how good we are.
We forced them to play a dirty and awful game. We're getting back our old winner mentality.