Xabi has regained the rhythm that he lost at the start of the season which has made this improvement very noticeable even in the last few matches they have always been dominant especially in finishing which was difficult for them to do at the beginning of the season.
A winning streak in their last 8 games in all competitions including beating Bayern and Inter in the Champions League and DFB has seen their mentality slowly return to form for now.
In addition, now in addition to Boniface in attack who is still disturbed due to several injury problems now Xabi seems to have another reliable player where on the last few occasions Schick began to transform into a striker who is hungry for goals and this could be a good start because later there will be a lot of options that Xabi has in attack so that his performance continues to be consistent as it is today.
Yes it was looking awkward for the Bundesliga when all teams faced problems while Bayern didn't. But I think the 4 points gap between Leverkusen and Bayern bring back the fun now as there is one more game mid of February when Leverkusen has the chance in their home stadium to beat Bayern one more time. This presupposes that Leverkusen keeps winning until then as it would be disappointing if by then the Bundesliga is actually over and Bayern is leading by like 10 or more points. But now it looks great again for Leverkusen. Nice winning streak with lots of goals and they eliminated Bayern from the Cup, which means Alonso is on a great way to add one more trophy to his collection.
The power of money at the start of the season always determines how the race for the trophy begins but over time when the chemistry and cooperation began to return well directed then the competition in the middle of the season became more visible and now Leverkusen began to try to do that so that their situation became better when compared to the beginning of the season which was still experiencing problems.
At the moment Leverkusen's momentum is still quite good even though Bayern are quite dominant but at least they are starting to try to catch up and the gap is slowly starting to narrow, of course this is a very good thing to wait for because after all for the bundesliga we always experience moments where Bayern always run alone even though in the last 2 seasons they have been troubled but it cannot be denied that the dominance and assumption that Bayern will always be champions in every season always echoes for the bundesliga so that when there is intense competition in the race for trophies like this it becomes a different treat and very interesting to watch.