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Bayern Munich, so often regarded as the juggernaut of German football, are going through humbling times at the moment as they huffed and puffed during their 11th consecutive title defence and fell short. Despite Harry Kane being added to a stacked front line that includes Serge Gnabry, Jamal Musiala, Leroy Sane and Kingsley Coman, injuries…
The first full season without Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in European football was always set to be poignant given we won’t have to summate extraordinary individual accolades and statistics to determine who has been the best player each year. After finally getting his hands on the FIFA World Cup trophy, Lionel Messi took his…
The business end of the football season is the time when the prizes are handed out to deserving winners, and there will arguably be no bigger winners in Europe’s top five leagues in 2023/24. Bayer Leverkusen have been crowned champions of the German top flight after a commanding 5-0 victory at home to Werder Bremen…
The 2023/24 season is gradually coming to a close around Europe’s top leagues and the tables are now taking more meaningful shape as games are becoming more intense with all teams trying to accomplish their set goals for the campaign. However, not every club has been able to reach their said targets from the beginning…
The Bundesliga season came to a conclusion with Bayern Munich running rampant as they closed out the season with 16 wins from their last 18 league games to steer ahead of their rivals and lift a record eighth consecutive Bundesliga title, scoring 100 goals from 34 games. On current form, The Bavarians are one of…
Not even a global pandemic and subsequent two-month pause could flip the script on Bayern Munich’s stroll to a record eighth Bundesliga title. Germany’s biggest football fixture was the biggest live sporting event in over two months since the Coronavirus outbreak, with fireworks expected in the title match. It required Dortmund to switch into…
Erling Haaland might have scored the first post-pandemic goal in top-flight football and inspired Borussia Dortmund to within a point of Bayern Munich in the Revierderby against Schalke on Saturday. Alphonso Davies and Bayern responded to the challenge showing no lockdown hangovers in their comfortable 2-nil victory away at Union Berlin on Sunday. The Bavarians…
After the long break from football action for two months in Germany, and to some extent across different leagues in Europe, the Bundesliga returns on Saturday in a different dimension; an unprecedented one as it…
