On Saturday night, Bayer Leverkusen held Bayern Munich to a 1-1 draw on the Allianz Enviornment, ending their excellent begin to life underneath Vicent Kompany.
Nonetheless, Die Werkself have been far off their ordinary requirements and appeared a unique aspect to the one which performed Der Rekordmeister off the park of their 3-1 victory final February.
Over the course of 90 minutes, Bayer Leverkusen recorded an xG of simply 0.06 in comparison with Bayern’s 1.38, in addition to being restricted to simply 31% of the ball, as per FotMob.
It’s honest to say that regardless of final season’s dominant show, Die Werkself have been unable to maintain up their momentum, whereas Bayern Munich have returned to their scary greatest.
With Leverkusen having to play a unique function from their regular ball-dominant method, they have been pressured into deploying the darkish arts of the attractive sport.
Talking after the ultimate whistle, Granit Xhaka defined why Xabi Alonso’s aspect appeared to frustrate the hosts by time-wasting in the direction of the tip of the sport:
“At 32, you have got sufficient expertise to grasp that Bayern need to rating the 2-1 in the previous few minutes. We needed to take among the rhythm out of the sport. I instructed Rob Andrich that one in all us needed to go down. He stated he already had a yellow card, so I took over.”
“It was a intelligent and assured efficiency. It’s not straightforward to play in Munich, however they didn’t actually have many possibilities, and it was extraordinarily vital to us that they couldn’t improve their lead over us within the desk.”
Whereas Alonso will definitely need to see extra from his aspect because the season progresses, after their poor defensive shows in opposition to VfL Wolfsburg, RB Leipzig, and Borussia Mönchengladbach, the Spaniard would have been comfortable to stifle Bayern for almost all of the sport.
GGFN | Will Shopland
