Germany League - Bundesliga Prediction Thread

[Velvet78]

Xabi Alonso has no history with a team as a manager except Real Sociedad B. Therefore this is a quite big risk to take for Leverkusen.

They are in a really poor shape now and we see them at the second last position in the standings. The Bayern Munich loss was the tipping point for Leverkusen board. Let's see how good they will do with Xabi Alonso. Actually he played in the Bundesliga before for three seasons. Taking this into account he might be considered as experienced in this league. If he adapts to the players quickly then maybe things can go on well for him to help his team recover in the first half of the season.

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[Raflesia]

Xabi Alonso has no history with a team as a manager except Real Sociedad B. Therefore this is a quite big risk to take for Leverkusen.

They are in a really poor shape now and we see them at the second last position in the standings. The Bayern Munich loss was the tipping point for Leverkusen board. Let's see how good they will do with Xabi Alonso. Actually he played in the Bundesliga before for three seasons. Taking this into account he might be considered as experienced in this league. If he adapts to the players quickly then maybe things can go on well for him to help his team recover in the first half of the season.

Indeed this is still a risk but with Xabi there at least he can understand the Bundesliga because indeed he can also be said to be one of the players who made history when playing at Bayern and maybe this can be used as capital for him to improve Leverkusen.
At least even if he can't lift to his original position he must try his best to get out of the relegation zone.

[TopT3ns]

Xabi Alonso has no history with a team as a manager except Real Sociedad B. Therefore this is a quite big risk to take for Leverkusen.

They are in a really poor shape now and we see them at the second last position in the standings. The Bayern Munich loss was the tipping point for Leverkusen board. Let's see how good they will do with Xabi Alonso. Actually he played in the Bundesliga before for three seasons. Taking this into account he might be considered as experienced in this league. If he adapts to the players quickly then maybe things can go on well for him to help his team recover in the first half of the season.

Leverkusen already has a great player that Xabi Alonso has seen, and now he is trying to make that player very useful by changing his strategy for the better and possibly leading him to always win, at least Xabi now has to be able to work hard to change it. all strategies of Leverkusenn

[herurist]

Xabi Alonso has no history with a team as a manager except Real Sociedad B. Therefore this is a quite big risk to take for Leverkusen.

They are in a really poor shape now and we see them at the second last position in the standings. The Bayern Munich loss was the tipping point for Leverkusen board. Let's see how good they will do with Xabi Alonso. Actually he played in the Bundesliga before for three seasons. Taking this into account he might be considered as experienced in this league. If he adapts to the players quickly then maybe things can go on well for him to help his team recover in the first half of the season.

Leverkusen already has a great player that Xabi Alonso has seen, and now he is trying to make that player very useful by changing his strategy for the better and possibly leading him to always win, at least Xabi now has to be able to work hard to change it. all strategies of Leverkusenn

But indeed so far I have not seen what Xabi's performance in coaching looks like so this can indeed be a risk in my opinion.
But indeed with this there is another hope that can be seen for the continuation of Leverkusen and at least for this season the target to keep them away from Depdrasi is clearly important because indeed they currently still seem to be struggling with it.

[CuriousGeorge]

That was probably too much for the people in charge at Bayer Leverkusen. After losing 0:2 against Porto in the Champignos League yesterday the media are saying that the current coach Gerardo Seoane will be sacked. It is not official yet but the media usually knows very well.
Xabi Alonso is being discussed as a possible new coach.

Media was always spreading hot news like that. calling any coach will be sacked after the team doesn't get a good result from the match. I just wanna know how long media will always be using word of sacked to create the news about that.
he may got another chance again from management. Sacking the coach once team was facing lose is not so good.

[blue Snow]

Xabi Alonso has no history with a team as a manager except Real Sociedad B. Therefore this is a quite big risk to take for Leverkusen.

Yes, I think so, I thought Tuchel who is very credible in managing a big team is potential for that position. but now, we can't say anything. maybe they want Xabi because his popularity, not as an achievement as a coach, because he hasn't. But we must be optimistic, Xabi is one who has talent like his partner on the national team Xavi. Maybe like Xavi's situation where moving to an unknown club can rise up Leverkusen from the degradation zone.

[LUCKMCFLY]

my claim is that the worse or less convincing bayern munich plays forward, the louder the call for a new top/world class striker. and since there were already rumors about Harry Kane (tottenham) this summer, i see him as the number #1 bayern would be interested in.

They have to spend Extra money for this player.
Apart from his contract which is still quite long, Kane is also now starting to recover the form he lost last season so I think Conte will hold on to this hard.
But if you look at Bayern's current condition, it's clear they need a new striker. At the moment Bayern's condition is not very good although I really like things like this but it's clear the top brass will find new ways to get their performance back to their original shape and of course new strikers are needed to maintain their current hegemony.

They won't be able to get new strikers until the winter, during the transfer window. As much as they are giving up their positions now, but so far so good, except for the striker position. The only hope now is that they just make it to this transfer window and not fall even lower in the table. It's been a long time since I've seen Bayern this low...

I'm not too surprise by Bayern's current position, yeah even though it's been a long time. But I still believe Bayern have a chance to push back to the top spot in the standings
I was surprise to see Union Berlin, never thought they would be the rulers of the Bundesliga until this 7th week.
A club that was not even able to qualify for the UCL and had difficulty reaching the Europa League qualification last season, due to resistance from Köln, and Freiburg

You can't doubt it, Bayern will surely be in the top positions, and yes, in a while they will be the first, only now the team is not very solid, I don't know what internal problems they have, but it has been shown that the great teams that they are very favorites in any title they can be very susceptible to any eventuality of a personal nature, take the example of the MU with CR7, and almost all the teams have done similar things, but from one moment to another these teams wake up and position themselves, that's what eu It has always been demonstrated, plus Bayern is one of the most favorite teams to win the UCL, which is not going badly for them.

Xabi Alonso has no history with a team as a manager except Real Sociedad B. Therefore this is a quite big risk to take for Leverkusen.

They are in a really poor shape now and we see them at the second last position in the standings. The Bayern Munich loss was the tipping point for Leverkusen board. Let's see how good they will do with Xabi Alonso. Actually he played in the Bundesliga before for three seasons. Taking this into account he might be considered as experienced in this league. If he adapts to the players quickly then maybe things can go on well for him to help his team recover in the first half of the season.

Well the news is not so bad, I really like that Xabi Alonso can have this opportunity as technical director, the bad thing is that he is taking on a Leverkusen with enough problems in the Bundesliga, almost for relegation, hopefully Xabi Alonso can have cunning enough to be able to take a team like this forward, it's not easy, they have to be in total harmony with their players, it is also necessary to point out that in order for them to take the team out they have to pay attention to everything that Xabi can send them, because if they don't want to go downhill they have to do something similar, well they're on time and they have a very good chance.

Indeed this is still a risk but with Xabi there at least he can understand the Bundesliga because indeed he can also be said to be one of the players who made history when playing at Bayern and maybe this can be used as capital for him to improve Leverkusen.
At least even if he can't lift to his original position he must try his best to get out of the relegation zone.

Well we have to put something in context, Xabi Alonso's career was very good when he was a player, above all he showed a lot of discipline when he played for Real Madrid. He was a very tactical player and he appeared at times when they had to be very cold-blooded and where they needed to do things where there was no room for mistakes, for me this has a lot to do with his personality, perhaps that experience is what should lead the Leverkusen players, the only way I see that they can move the team forward is that they can have a lot of discipline and stick to everything that Xabi tells them, the relegation line is there, they must save themselves from falling completely.


For those who are following the news about Leipzig, this report is useful information, especially for speculation:

Nkunku's release clause only applies to clubs outside of Germany

It's now clear that Christopher Nkunku completed a secret medical with Chelsea before a potential transfer next summer. Bild reports that the €60 million release clause in his contract, which was incorporated into his Leipzig extension this summer, is only valid for a move to a club outside of Germany.

Source: https://bulinews.com/news/14708/nkunku-release-clause-only-applies-clubs-outside-germany

After Leipzig's successful game, all the information and reports focus on this team as well.

[X-ray]

Xabi Alonso has no history with a team as a manager except Real Sociedad B. Therefore this is a quite big risk to take for Leverkusen.

They are in a really poor shape now and we see them at the second last position in the standings. The Bayern Munich loss was the tipping point for Leverkusen board. Let's see how good they will do with Xabi Alonso. Actually he played in the Bundesliga before for three seasons. Taking this into account he might be considered as experienced in this league. If he adapts to the players quickly then maybe things can go on well for him to help his team recover in the first half of the season.

Leverkusen already has a great player that Xabi Alonso has seen, and now he is trying to make that player very useful by changing his strategy for the better and possibly leading him to always win, at least Xabi now has to be able to work hard to change it. all strategies of Leverkusenn

that's better than still using old coach which is not able giving out all of best performance from leverkusen's player. Leverkusen was in relegation zone along with champion league which is at the third place of group. The management must take such decision caused by leverkusen may not able to play in the champion league again for the next season caused by it's very hard to enter into the top 4. The chance is almost zero for leverkusen to be able to enter in the top 4

[Oluwa-btc]

now it's official - bayer leverkusen sacks Gerardo Seoane and immediately introduces his successor. with Xabi Alonso comes a coach who has been very successful at national team level, making spain world champions in 2010 and european champions in 2008 and 2012. most recently he coached the second team of real sociedad

I haven't really seen him lately and don't know how tactical he must have been all through this while but I do hope and wish him all the best of luck @Bayern Leverkusen.
The coach should have been shown the exit door a week or two ago, if they don't, they should have found themselves in damnation striving to climb the ladder outta the red zones.

Good new for Xavi Alonso, he is a pretty decent Midfielder, hopefully he inculcates that into his new squad especially the midfielder's.

[bct_ail]

I cannot say right now that Bayern Leverkusen has made a good decision as far as this decision goes. To be honest I have not seen him as a coach enough to say anything in my opinion.

Obviously, there are a lot of people saying a lot of things at the moment, but I will only be able to comment when I see the results that he will be able to bring. There will be a lot of talk now about the fact that he has never managed a major club before. Nevertheless, I believe he is going to be able to handle the situation well.

As a matter of fact, Xavi also didn't have any major managerial jobs until he became a manager at Barcelona. If we look at how he played in his Real Madrid days we will be able to see that he used his head a lot while playing. However, it is still going to be a very hard job to live up to the expectations set for us.

Yes, I am also not sure if this decision was right. We do not know why the people in charge decided in his favour. But everyone needs their first chance at some point and we should look at his performance for some time before we can make a judgement. Anyway, I am happy to see Xabi in the Bundesliga. Leverkusen next game is against Schalke. Schalke is also in trouble and will probably play against relegation for a long time.

[rahmad2nd]

It's only a matter of time, sooner or later Bayern Munich will again lead the standings. Now that Bayern Munich have managed to sit in third place, they have collected 15 points from 8 matches. Munich is very close to the leader of the table, two points difference is not so difficult to catch up with Union Berlin and Freiburg who are in position one and two.
There are still many games left in the Bundesliga, Munich will show who they really are. The dominance of Munich still cannot be broken by other teams, although currently they are still in third place, at the end of the season only Bayern Munich will win the Bundesliga trophy.

Yes, we agree on this. it is only a matter of time for Bayern to return to the top of the table, Nagelsmann has returned his squad to its former form. in the last two matches they were able to create 9 goals, and 5 of them came from a win over Viktoria in the champions league. only two points difference with Union Berlin and Freiburg, it is not something difficult for Bayern to catch up with them.
next week, an important game for Bayern and of course for Dortmund too. they have the same points, it's interesting, this game will present high tension.

[X-ray]

It's only a matter of time, sooner or later Bayern Munich will again lead the standings. Now that Bayern Munich have managed to sit in third place, they have collected 15 points from 8 matches. Munich is very close to the leader of the table, two points difference is not so difficult to catch up with Union Berlin and Freiburg who are in position one and two.
There are still many games left in the Bundesliga, Munich will show who they really are. The dominance of Munich still cannot be broken by other teams, although currently they are still in third place, at the end of the season only Bayern Munich will win the Bundesliga trophy.

Yes, we agree on this. it is only a matter of time for Bayern to return to the top of the table, Nagelsmann has returned his squad to its former form. in the last two matches they were able to create 9 goals, and 5 of them came from a win over Viktoria in the champions league. only two points difference with Union Berlin and Freiburg, it is not something difficult for Bayern to catch up with them.
next week, an important game for Bayern and of course for Dortmund too. they have the same points, it's interesting, this game will present high tension.

I hope so. Let's see how bayern will handle the upcoming matches in the bundesliga. So far, bayern can handle the match in the champion league so well without even facing any lose. i would like to see the same performance by bayern munchen when it was also in the bundesliga to make sure if bayern can secure the title for this season again. The domination by union may disappear anytime with the goes of time as long as bayern can consistent to win any match. this will gives pressure to the another club if the big team has come for them.

[nara1892]

Yes, we agree on this. it is only a matter of time for Bayern to return to the top of the table, Nagelsmann has returned his squad to its former form. in the last two matches they were able to create 9 goals, and 5 of them came from a win over Viktoria in the champions league. only two points difference with Union Berlin and Freiburg, it is not something difficult for Bayern to catch up with them.
next week, an important game for Bayern and of course for Dortmund too. they have the same points, it's interesting, this game will present high tension.

It will always be an interesting spectacle when these two teams meet, although in the end it will still be Bayern Munich who will be the winner at the end of the match. Their meeting record says that Bayern Munich are always dominant in the game. And in this match it is likely that Bayern Munich will extend their winning record over Borussia Dortmund. Regardless of the result I hope to put up a very interesting game to watch and I hope they won't find it easy to score and end up with a narrow goal gap at the end of the game.

[Iranus]

At the moment Bayer Leverkusen is playing against Porto in the Champignons League. Those in charge will be watching very closely to see how the coach is acting and how the team is playing. I think if they will lose Gerardo Seoane will be sacked tomorrow and a new coach will have to be brought in. The next game in the Bundesliga is against Schalke.

Leverkusen's players are very weak in the Bundesliga. But they are playing very well in the Champions League. Leverkusen's performance against Porto is also good in today's match. This is Porto's home match so I expected Porto to dominate this match. Neither team could score in the first half. Porto scored a goal but it was disallowed and Leverkusen was awarded a penalty but they failed to score. My guess is that Porto will be able to win this match or this match will be a draw.

It was such a disappointing thing seeing Leverkusen player loosing the penalty awarded to them. If I'm right that was the second time he has lost a penalty kick for a week or two now against Portugal.
Although Porto are pressuring really hard to win the game, the score still stands as we expected to see the Portuguese side take control by scoring a single goal.

Bayern Munich wons tonight, best goal fir the day was to Sadio Mane, they all contributed to the three points. They should be preparing very well for the next Bundesliga fixture.

As for the second goal that Leverkusen conceded against Porto, I thought it was a really unfortunate goal
because I thought the goalkeeper did a really good job of reaching the ball as soon as he did.
For Bayern Munich vs Viktoria Plzeň, It was obvious that Bayern Munich was going to win this match.
This was not even a question about winning this match. In this case, it was about how many goals Munich would score.

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Leverkusen is clearly the biggest disappointment of this season as right now they are in relegation zone with just one win from their eight matches and with last night result where they lost against Porto now their chances for qualifying into next round is also in doubt because this is currently interesting situation in group with Club Brugge is right now at the top with three out of three wins, and now they need only one win which give them spot in next round and for remaining one spot three clubs are fighting where Atlético Madrid is favourite with Porto and Leverkusen both have equal chances for going out of the competition their defence is weak, and their attack is also not working as it needs to be done for having better results if they want to stay in competition Bundesliga and Champions League then surely they need to do hard work in coming days.

Leverkusen really needs to improve their performance in the Bundesliga. They were also unable to accomplish too much in the last season as well.
It is true that they have played well in other competitions, but they have not played well at all in the Bundesliga so far this season.
If I remember correctly they somehow survived the relegation. The chances of them surviving this season are very slim.

[Boristhecat]

Yes, we agree on this. it is only a matter of time for Bayern to return to the top of the table, Nagelsmann has returned his squad to its former form. in the last two matches they were able to create 9 goals, and 5 of them came from a win over Viktoria in the champions league. only two points difference with Union Berlin and Freiburg, it is not something difficult for Bayern to catch up with them.
next week, an important game for Bayern and of course for Dortmund too. they have the same points, it's interesting, this game will present high tension.

Bookmakers evaluate this meeting as follows:

Borussia - 4.20

Draw - 4.70

Bayern - 1.67

In fact, it is difficult for me to choose which outcome with the corresponding odds looks profitable. 1.67 for a motivated Bayern that will play only to win against an unstable Borussia? Looks like an easy choice. On the other hand, 4.20 for the victory of Borussia, which from time to time can show a bright game and beat anyone. Also good. A draw with odds of 4.70 is also a good choice based on the statistics of Bayern's recent games. All choices are good hahaha.

[KTChampions]

now it's official - bayer leverkusen sacks Gerardo Seoane and immediately introduces his successor. with Xabi Alonso comes a coach who has been very successful at national team level, making spain world champions in 2010 and european champions in 2008 and 2012. most recently he coached the second team of real sociedad

It was fast! I don’t know if he will be able to prove himself at such a high level (immediately a team playing in the Champions League), but it seems to me that he has good conditions for starting: Bayer is at the very bottom and any movement will be strictly up. A victory over Schalke is guaranteed to raise the club by at least one place (and given the rarity of points at the bottom, most likely by a couple of places).

[Lafu]

now it's official - bayer leverkusen sacks Gerardo Seoane and immediately introduces his successor. with Xabi Alonso comes a coach who has been very successful at national team level, making spain world champions in 2010 and european champions in 2008 and 2012. most recently he coached the second team of real sociedad

It was just a matter of time after the failed again in the Champions League and lost there game against FC Porto.
I thought the til waiting about the next weekend and how it goes and Leverkusen making there final decision from there.
Xabi Alonso will be for sure bring some new wind into the team and hopefully they win against Schalke to get out of the relegation zone.

[bullrun2024bro]

The predicted starting lineups have been published for this weekend's top match between FC Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund:



Source: https://twitter.com/iMiaSanMia/status/1577774961242120193/photo/1

Whether Kimmich and Müller will be available at FC Bayern remains in question. Both tested positive for Covid-19 a few days ago.

Deniz Aytekin was appointed as the referee for the top match, acorrding to the German newspaper Bild:

Referee Deniz Aytekin has been appointed to officiate Saturday's top game between Dortmund and Bayern [@BILD]

Source: https://twitter.com/iMiaSanMia/status/1577764209257025537

If Kimmich and Müller really can't play, Borussia Dortmund's chances for a win will of course be higher, IMHO. However, we won't know for sure until Friday.

[Bobrox]

now it's official - bayer leverkusen sacks Gerardo Seoane and immediately introduces his successor. with Xabi Alonso comes a coach who has been very successful at national team level, making spain world champions in 2010 and european champions in 2008 and 2012. most recently he coached the second team of real sociedad.

Can't expected with Gerardo Seoane not sacking from his position as Bayern Leverkusen manager because most totally failure on domestic league after Bayern Munich drop almost bottom position standing on 17th place and several bad result at Champion League games, I think good reason why have to replace his position with Xabi Alonso. Little not believing with Alonso career as manager because he still less experience become manager or coach on bigger club actually like Bayern Leverkusen. No doubt with his reputation when still active as player but Alonso still haven't more experience trough with club except on Real Sociedad junior team.

Waiting result between Leverkusen vs Schalke on next match to know how ability or not for Alonso become new manager on Bayern Leverkusen.

[herurist]

now it's official - bayer leverkusen sacks Gerardo Seoane and immediately introduces his successor. with Xabi Alonso comes a coach who has been very successful at national team level, making spain world champions in 2010 and european champions in 2008 and 2012. most recently he coached the second team of real sociedad

It was just a matter of time after the failed again in the Champions League and lost there game against FC Porto.
I thought the til waiting about the next weekend and how it goes and Leverkusen making there final decision from there.
Xabi Alonso will be for sure bring some new wind into the team and hopefully they win against Schalke to get out of the relegation zone.

True, because actually in this case it is enough for the top brass to be patient, especially with Leverkusen's poor performance in all competitions.
The comparison is too far in this regard if we compare Leverkusen's performance this season and last season so that there is no reason to continue to keep Gerardo Seoane.
Currently Xabi has been appointed and maybe we have to see if he can improve his current condition or is it still the same.