Bundesliga title fight
Statistically, Bayer Leverkusen are now champions
As of: 1:46 p.m. | Reading time: 2 minutes
“FC Bayern last managed to lose three games in a row in 2015”
FC Bayern is slipping even deeper into the crisis: against VfL Bochum they suffered their third competitive defeat in eight days. “Now we have to wait and see what happens against Leipzig,” says WELT reporter Paul Klinzing in Munich.
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There are still twelve match days left to play and FC Bayern have already proven that they can catch up with the deficit in the table. The statistics now clearly speak for Bayer Leverkusen when it comes to the championship question. But the club could end up becoming a victim of its success.
The Bayer Leverkusen professionals can hardly remember their last defeat on the pitch. The Werkself last lost a competitive game on May 27, 2023, 3-0 against VfL Bochum on matchday 34 of the last Bundesliga season. Xabi Alonso’s team is still undefeated this season.
Leverkusen have not lost any of their 32 competitive games this season and have celebrated 28 wins; FC Bayern is the only Bundesliga team to have achieved such a series between 2019 and 2020. After the win against Heidenheim (2-1), Bayer is top of the Bundesliga for the 18th time this season, setting a new club record; In the 2009/10 season, the Werkself were first 17 times.
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The number that should give Rhineland fans the most hope for the long-awaited success is another. FC Bayern is eight points behind Leverkusen in the table; No team has ever caught up with such a big deficit at such a late point in the season. Statistically speaking, Leverkusen are already champions. But the Werkself are threatened with the fate of becoming victims of their success.
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Liverpool interested in Alonso and Rolfes
According to a media report, Liverpool FC is planning to sign the successful duo Alonso and Simon Rolfes in the summer. The coach and the sports director of the Rhinelanders are the favorites to succeed the outgoing Jürgen Klopp and the ex-sports director Jörg Schmadtke, reports the “Football Insider” portal, citing “well-informed sources”.
In addition to the former Liverpool professional Alonso, the Premier League club also has national coach Julian Nagelsmann, Brighton’s Roberto de Zerbi and Ruben Amorim from Sporting Lisbon on its list of Klopp’s successors. The 56-year-old is leaving Liverpool at the end of the season. The former Wolfsburg and Cologne player Schmadtke had already left the English club at the end of January after six months.
