Even if the competitors win their games today, they will be only 4 points ahead. And this is Freiburg and Union Berlin - few would believe that these teams are able to give a stable season without failures and with a better pace than Bayern. Borussia remains Bayern's biggest rival so far, but there's a tie on points here and there's no reason to worry about the opponent gaining an advantage.
Precisely. I know I'm enjoying Freiburg's form (and I got a little fella in there who's my absolute favourite as overperformer) but dropped points are inevitable as you can only last so long in terms of the energy you've got to put in just to stay above water.
BVB taking off points from Bayern was a blessing, and there won't be too many of that for the defending champs. Still, what a season it's turning out to be so far.
I really really really didn't expected Bayern to get another draw. They have been not so great at bundesliga so far, and I was thinking that they would be doing much better this time around, but turns out they did not and they still suck.
They are the team everyone imagined would win the title, and I really did not expected Lewandowski to have this much impact on the team, sure he is a wonderful striker but Bayerns whole success didn't look like it was attributed to only him. So, this new season where they keep on losing points doesn't make sense to me, I expected them to finally start winning with this game and go on a roll with many wins in a row.
Nagelsmann is lucky right now that he didn't lose the game in the Champions League against Barcelona. If that had been the case, I am sure he would be in a whole lot of trouble. He already is, but with that loss I think he would already be fighting for his job if Bayern Munich would be with their back against the wall.
Maybe one advantage Nagelsmann also has is that there is no alternative coach available who could change things fundamentally. It feels like Tuchel is very similar to Nagelsmann in a certain sense. Very tactical, intense in character, I don't think that could be a change Bayern is looking for. If Klopp was available, oh dear, Nagelsmann might have been sacked rather sooner than later.
It'll be interesting to see how this is going to play out for Bayern. The teams in the Bundesliga aren't afraid of playing against them anymore. The teams all the way down till rank 8 know that they can take away points from Bayern and that is something Bayern usually tries to prevent from happening early on in the season.