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If a team's goal is to win the title, they should not be dependent on any particular player. They should definitely keep the replacement. It is impossible to guarantee that a player will play well for an entire season or suffer injury. The Dortmund team is not stable enough this season either. They may qualify for the Champions League, but will be far behind Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga.
But it is still happening, I think all of them are hoping to win the championship, Bayern Munich is just on the top of the food chain well mainly because they have already established their reign and the finances are hauling so much every year because they always won the champion, and we can not blame players if they have a super player in their team and they end up relying on him, but eventually, when Lewandowski is now not in the team anymore, other players have become very active in their game and playing ten fold, but we can not say it is because of Lewandowski leaving, maybe now the management is more strict because they knew it will be not an easy season for them,
In fact, the previous season Leipzig experienced a decline in performance by being in 4th position, even though in the 2020/2021 season
Leipzig managed to be in 2nd position. But if we talk about this season in which Leipzig managed to bring back Timo Werner, I have the same
opinion as you, are very optimistic that Leipzig can regain second place in the Bundesliga. Because it is too difficult for any team in the Bundesliga
to beat Bayern's dominance in the Bundesliga. Likewise with Leipzig, their realistic target is to reach second place in the Bundesliga,
and the current Leipzig squad I'm sure they can achieve. Moreover, Dortmund as Leipzig's strongest competitor is not in good condition,
Dortmund has been abandoned by Haaland and his successor Sebastien Haller has suffered a serious injury. So this is a good opportunity
for Leipzig to reach second place in the Bundesliga.
Well, Leipzig will surely gain that momentum over time, they are having a hard time coping up at the start of the season, I really don't know why, but this is really happening to them even in the last season their momentum shifted, and regain a good standing further throughout the season, and every game Leipzig will eventually win that game, I think they have 18 new arrivals for the team and still coping up with how they play in the Bundesliga, this will really need time to get used to their new teams, and gaining chemistry along the way,