Bayern Munich visit Borussia M’gladbach today with a double incentive: to consolidate the leadership of the Bundesliga with a victory that would allow Hansi Flick to equal Pep Guardiola as the coach who has added the fastest 100 points in the German championship throughout of all the history of the Bavarian club. The Catalan achieved it between 2013 and 2014 and needed 39 games, the same ones that the current coach would take to achieve to win tonight.
Gladbach beat him last season
Flick took over Bayern on November 3, 2019 and accumulates 97 points after 31 wins, 4 draws and only 3 losses. But one of them was precisely last season in the same stadium today, Borussia Park, and against the same rival, a Gladbach who came back with a double from Algerian side Ramy Bensebaini (2-1).
After that setback, Bayern starred in an overwhelming streak, with a break due to the Covid-19 pandemic included, of 19 wins and only one draw that led them to win the title. Then the DFB Pokal and the Champions League fell.
Eight matches in a row fitting first
In this course, the German and European champions have only conceded a league defeat on the second day (4-1 against Hoffenheim), but they are showing symptoms of physical and mental fatigue that have led them to conceal the first goal and start losing the last 8 games forcing you to react to win or draw.
We must have a different attitude from the start
Flick yesterday urged his players to focus from the first minute: “We must have a different attitude, dynamism and intensity from the start and not from minute 48 or 49.”
Leipzig, attentive to a possible Bavarian stumble
Gladbach is the team with the best record against Bayern since 2014 (5 wins and 2 draws in the last 12 Bundesliga games) and Leipzig, second two points behind the leader, will be very aware of this great classic of the 70s already that on Saturday he could receive Borussia Dortmund (4th) with the possibility of giving the ‘sorpasso’. The 4 German teams in the Champions League face off on this exciting 15th matchday.
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