The meeting between Bayern Munich and Leverkusen has occurred in the last few weeks and the result was a draw, the match was played at Bayern Munich's home ground. So I think Leverkusen's problem this season is not when they play against Bayern Munich so that they can repeat like last season. However, Leverkusen must be consistent with every team they face, whether it is against a weak team or a strong team. Currently Leverkusen has started the season not so well, they lost several points, the most painful when they were held to a draw by Holstein Kiel last week. This is what Xabi Alanso must immediately fix so that the opportunity to defend the championship title is more open.
The test for Xabi Alanso is in the next match because he will play against a strong team, namely Eintracht Frankfurt, this match is very important for Xabi Alanso to increase the team's confidence and of course so that Leverkusen is not far behind in terms of points with Bayern Munich. Although this match is predicted to be very tight, considering that this match will be played in front of their own supporters, I will bet on Leverkusen's victory.
They do not really have a "problem" if you ask me, they just had one or at most two bad games that's it, rest of the games were good enough. The "problem" is that they did so great last year, people expect them to do that greatly this year as well, I mean lets be real, they went unbeaten all season long, all the way until the Atalanta game, they had a 51-52 unbeaten game streak, which is unrealistic.
So when they ended up with a few ties and one loss, people assumed they were doing badly, but that is not really doing badly, this is normal and nothing major at all, we should be considering this as what the average team does anyways. I mean they are not leading the league right now, but this doesn't mean they are not going to lead the league in the future neither, they could totally lead the team and we could see them do greatly. We just need to make sure they are dealing with a bit realistic results this season and not doing badly like people think.