Topic: Germany League - Bundesliga Prediction Thread - page 672. (Read 656523 times)

The unpredictability of football never ceases to amaze. Matches like these serve as reminders that, in football, anything can happen, regardless of a team's recent form or perceived superiority. While this loss may be disappointing for Bayern Munich and their supporters, I think Bayern can bounce back from setbacks and regain their momentum with determination and strategic adjustments.

This result certainly makes Leverkusen lead in the Bundesliga title race with less pressure than before, their comfortable position in the standings certainly puts them in a favorable position. But it's premature to declare them as outright champions at this stage of the season. And Bayern Munich, despite the setback against Bochum, remains a formidable contender with the talent and experience to mount a comeback. Whether Bayern Munich can catch up to Leverkusen will depend on how they react in upcoming matches, Leverkusen's consistency. While Leverkusen may have a lead at the moment, there are still plenty of matches left to play, and the title race is far from over.

Damn it, I didn't expect that Bayern Munich was defeated by Bochum because Bochum is not playing well recently and Bochum didn't win in the last 3 matches but somehow today they beat Bayern Munich, I don't understand what happened to Bayern Munich? On the other hand, Leverkusen is definitely comfortable with this situation they should lead by 8 points ahead and it is certain that Leverkusen will win the Bundesliga title this season, do you think Bayern Munich still has a chance to catch up?

Bayern Munich has had good times this season, but the bad results have not come to an end recently. They do not inspire confidence at all, no matter who the opponent is, Bochum made it 3-1 in one part of the match and no one was surprised by this team Bochum because many people know that the team is in decline. Poor Harry Kane came for the championship, but he scored one goal in this match, but only one goal was not enough.

Bayern Munich are running their chances and making the title accomplishment this season evaporate with every round.
Bochum is a team hovering around the relegation zone and shouldn't be a problem for a team like Bayern. It wasn't a a lucky and a surprising finish with a late goal. Bayern Munich had the time to score but they failed to do it..

If you look back a little to last season, Bayern Munchen experienced 5 defeats and 8 draws in one season but they managed to win the trophy. This means that Tuchel cannot be completely blamed, it is true that the squad depth he has is better than last season, but sometimes that cannot make a team achieve instant success. Last season's competition when they won the Bundesliga trophy was also very different from this season, their dominance was almost broken by Dortmund in last season.

The main factor why Bayern this season seems to be going backwards is the rise of Leverkusen strength, so far Xabi Alonso fleet has not suffered a single defeat. That is the fact that makes Bayern seem to have made a mistake, even though in fact their current statistics are still better than last season in the context of the number of wins and losses in the Bundesliga. Eliminated in the DFB Pokal, and beaten by Lazio in the Champions League, made Bayern look like they had committed a big sin.

Opportunities are still open for Tuchel and his fleet in their efforts to maintain dominance in the Bundesliga, and go further in the Champions League, despite having to be eliminated too early in the DFB Pokal. However, I predict Leverkusen will succeed in winning the Bundesliga trophy this season, and regarding Bayern's journey in the UCL, I think they can advance to the semifinals. That's just my assumption, it could be completely wrong.

Bayern Munich is now on with series of poor performance which will definitely cost them all the trophies they could have possibly had this season, they are really poor with their performance that I almost doubted if they were the team actually playing against their opponent because Monza isn't a team thst should stress Bayern Munich.

Tuchel is very much likely to loose his job by the end of this season because I doubt if Bayern Munich will be ready to keep up with this kind of performance long enough into next season because they are definitely not going to tolerate this for this long considering they have already been threats on his job all along so I'm very much in doubts if his job will survive this season. Bayern Munich lost to Monza in an embarrassing loss today, at the time when I taught they were going to get an equalizer so it doesn't look like they had a really bad game, they conceded another goal again and lost.

Last season, Bayern Munich were embarrassingly eliminated from the UEFA Champions League by Manchester City in the quarter finals of the competition and had to win the German Bundesliga because of the fact that Borussia Dortmund failed to win their last league game of the season. However, Bayern Munich were somehow pardoned because they failed to sign a striker who will do the works Robert Lewandowski was doing at the club but this season, they have in the squad a Harry Kane that's regarded as one of the most prolific strikers in the world and despite his impressive goalscoring run this season, Bayern Munich are currently either points behind league leaders Bayer Leverkusen as well as trailing by one goal to Lazio after the first leg of their round of 16 tie in the UEFA Champions League competition.

I don't think Bayern Munich boss have a good excuse to give at the moment and that's why he's likely to sacked before the end of the current season

I really don't know what's wrong with this Bayern team, because they have everything in that team, but their performance have really been below the standard required for a team like Bayern.

Right now I think that the league title is really far off away from them, but nothing is impossible, anything can still happen, but they need to start winning games back to back for them to stand a chance and capitalize on any slip from Leverkusen.

In football nowadays, the bad performance of the team is always placed on the manager, so I see tuchel being sack between now and the end of the season because his performance as a Bayern Munich manager have really been terrible during his short stinct at the club.

As I said some several posts ago here that Bayern should not be relied to be betting on them as all the psychological pressure is on them and they showed tonight that they could not bear such a pressure and I also conclude that in here they completely lost any single glimpse of hope that they may had to win the Bundesliga this year,they simply have not been consistent.

Leverkussen needs just to not be self complacent and I am pretty sure with their performance they are going to have an easy win of the Bundesliga title during this year,they just need to not underestimate any remaining games until the end of the season.

It is my belief that Tuchel is doing a lot of experimentations with his tactics and that is why the team is currently struggling because the Tuchel I know when he was in EPL had more better tactics IIRC.  Like I said, the next game and the one against Lazio in the champions league are all must-Win. otherwise, it's game over.


Harry Kane came all the way to win a title but only got dragged into another mess of a team. It's just unfortunate for him. A striker of his caliber should have won plenty of trophies in his career so he'd have something to show. Oh well, I think the Bundesliga is out of reach for Bayern Munich this season. This means they have to double their UCL efforts.

Bayern Munich have a wrong coach this season, many people were judging Tuchel based on his past successes and records, and many people were thinking that Chelsea made a wrong decision as they sack him but it has appeared as the right decision even though they are yet to get good coach that will lead the team to success.
Bayern need another coach next season because they have individual players that can lead team to glory, but because his poor selection, they couldn’t even get consistency in the Bundesliga talk more of Champions League, but his team deserve to be favorites for Champions League, but due to his poor selection and his old age coaching experience, they are not favorites because Tuchel cannot lead them to the right path.

Bayern Leverkusen is now eight points clear, and are yet to be beaten in the Bundesliga competition. They remain the only team in the European top leagues that are still unbeaten in their League, Alonso might go the same as Arsenal Wenger to win the League unbeaten.

I think with what is happening now, in terms of probability, it looks like Bayern will still be very troubled in pursuing and trying to compete with Leverkusen in the race for the trophy in the Bundesliga but when saying Bayern's hopes are over I think it's still too soon to be able to conclude now.
But with the defeat that Bayern suffered again this week, it actually makes the situation more complicated for now.
Currently Bayern are 8 points behind Leverkusen even though there are still 12 matches in the rest of the season but still things like this are sometimes not a guarantee.

What I want to know now is what steps the current management will take against Tuchel because by looking at his current performance, honestly I think there should have been quite decisive action just like Bayern did to Nagelsmann last season.

Bochum really surprised us because they are one of the teams that often concedes a lot of goals when facing Bayern munich but in today match Bochum managed to win the match against Bayern munich and also taught Bayern munich a valuable lesson not to underestimate them. With this victory, Bochum managed to climb up to 11th in the standings and their position is getting better because they have managed to move away from the relegation zone.

From Bayern Munich side, this defeat means they failed to get close to Leverkusen in the standings because this week Leverkusen is 8 points ahead of Bayern Munich who are in second place. As you said, it might be true that Bayern Munich dominance will be broken by Leverkusen this season. Bayern munich are starting to lose their form because unexpectedly they have lost 3 times, 1 match in the Champions League and two more matches in the Bundesliga.

Xabi has a complete squad which is nit dependent on any individual player, they have quality everywhere in players like Florian Wirtz, Grimaldo etc, but most importantly, they function as a unit to get the job done.

I feel slightly bad for Harry Kane. I cannot stand Spurs but it sucks that after sacrificing the EPL top scorer of all time record, he still has to wait for his first ever title.

- Jay -

All of Bayern Munich's current downturn started after losing to Leverkusen, they had difficulty recovering from the defeat to Lazio and now they are Bochum whose player quality is clearly far from Bayern Munich. This defeat further ensures that the Bundesliga title belongs to Leverkusen because with a difference of 8 points it seems very difficult for Bayern Munich to catch up.

I think this is all Tuchel's fault. He is constantly making the team worse, if this continues, Tuchel's days will soon be over at Byaern Munich. The reason is that his tactics were very bad, especially against Bochum, who couldn't anticipate the speed of Bochum's defensive transitions. If you look at Bayern's attack, there are at least 6 to 8 players in defense, while Bayern Munich has 2 to 5 defenders. After Upamecano was sent off, the attackers became active in defense. So his performance got worse and worse, making Bayern Munich fail to get full points in this match.

actually when bayern munchen meet leverkusen and lost the bundesliga title race was over. bayern munchen has been difficult to compete with leverkusen for the championship. in addition to this opponent bochum even lost. because leverkusen has been consistently difficult to slip or lose in matches in the bundesliga.

The interesting thing is that I used to think Bayer Leverkusen was centered on Victor Boniface to deliver the goals but I was totally wrong. They beat Bayern Munich + Leipzig and Sturggart comfortably without his services. Given how good Xabi's team has been this season, I'm beginning to think that they would give Liverpool serious run for their money if they happen to get placed together.

Dortmund are the ultimate bottlers and for once, I'm sincerely happy that Bayer Munich dominance is coming to an end. And also the fact that Bayer Leverkusen has been one of the best teams to place bets on this season. Consistent returns throughout.

They have been unbeaten in ALL of them. 4 draws and 0 defeats.

Bayern Munich have not been on the best run of form, but Bayer have been outstanding all season, just outstanding. In Bayern's  best form, they push this team hard but I still see Lerverkusen winning it in that scenario; with this current Bayern side, Leverkusen definitely win it.

I have heard references to Dortmund last seasona nd how they almost won it, but I really see no similarities between both sides. Xabi Alonos has created a monster team.

- Jay -

It just keeps getting worse for FC Bayern Munich and Thomas Tuchel. From my personal view, it just can wait to see another team lift the Bundesliga trophy, especially a team like Bayer Leverkusen. For so long, Bayern Munich have monopolized the Bundesliga while at the same time killing off their top opponents by buying up their key players.
This made the league so boring where one could predict who was going to lift the trophy at the end of the season even just after 5 matches.

The most interesting thing is that they have no defeats at all this season in all tournaments: 6 wins in the Europa League + 4 wins in the German Cup. If I remember correctly, they had one (or two?) matches left to break the eternal (as it seemed) Bavaria record. Their next 2 games will be with Mainz and Koln, I don’t think that these teams are capable of beating such Bayer.

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I can assume that the title quotes should now be somewhere around 1.2 for Bayer and 5.5 for Bayern?