On Saturday night, Bayer Leverkusen will journey to Bavaria to tackle the problem of Bayern Munich in what might already be a six-pointer on the high of the Bundesliga desk.
Regardless of having turn out to be the primary facet to ever elevate the Meisterschale unbeaten final season, Die Werkself have already fallen to defeat this marketing campaign in a 3-2 loss at dwelling to RB Leipzig.
As for Der Rekordmeister, they’re having fun with an ideal begin to life underneath new head coach Vincent Kompany, boasting the most effective attacking report and defensive report within the league.
Nonetheless, in contrast to the reigning champions, Bayern are but to face their first actual check this season, and may they flourish in opposition to Xabi Alonso’s facet, then there’ll undoubtedly be cause to counsel that they might reclaim their standing as Germany’s best.
Nonetheless, chatting with Sky Germany, Granit Xhaka defined that Leverkusen are ready for his or her conflict on the Allianz Enviornment regardless of the stress, maybe having been taken off the report champions:
“It is a Champions League opponent. That’s what the coach informed us at present. We clearly understand how a lot potential Bayern have and what new concepts the brand new coach, Vincent Kompany, will deliver to their sport. We have now after all analysed their video games, and you’ll see that lots of issues are working very properly. Virtually each shot is a objective for them. Their offence could be very sturdy, they usually concede fewer targets in defence. It’s undoubtedly going to be a high sport, and we’re prepared for it.”
“The stress isn’t essentially higher, however completely different. If you happen to turn out to be champions and cup winners, the stress on our facet would clearly must be a bit larger, however I’ve the sensation that we are able to deal with the stress very properly and have the expertise to take action. The younger gamers are additionally doing very properly. A sport in Munich in opposition to Bayern is all the time one thing particular, and we’re wanting ahead to it.”
In addition to this, Xhaka revealed the targets for Die Werkself this season:
“We wish to be on the high for so long as attainable! In fact, now we have our targets internally, however externally it’s a distinct story. With the motto “take it one sport at a time,” we made good progress final yr and can proceed with this motto this yr. We have now a block of three to 4 video games that the coach all the time talks about. Now the following step is Bayern Munich, and we wish to annoy them a bit—identical to final season.”
It’s clear that Alonso’s facet won’t apply stress to themselves publicly.
Nonetheless, internally, there’s a completely different opinion on what they wish to obtain this season, and may they appear to succeed in their targets, then they might want to iron out their vulnerabilities earlier than Saturday, as Bayern will expose them given the possibility.
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