Bundesliga
Müller sees Leverkusen as Bayern’s main rival
According to Thomas Müller (M), Bayer Leverkusen is FC Bayern Munich’s main rival. photo
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For years, BVB was Bayern’s main rival in the title fight. According to Thomas Müller, that is likely to change this season.
For Bayern veterans Thomas Müller is Bayer Leverkusen’s biggest competitor in the fight for the German football championship.
“They drew once and won the rest. It looks like that at the moment,” answered the 34-year-old after Munich’s clear 4-0 (2-0) win at Borussia Dortmund when asked whether they would be on the team this year To win the title, Bayer Leverkusen has to beat BVB rather than BVB. Only in the 2-2 draw in Munich in mid-September did the Leverkusen professionals emerge victorious in their ten national games so far.
Distance maintained
Thanks to Harry Kane’s hat-trick (9th minute/72nd/90th+3) and Dayot Upamecano’s goal (4th), Bayern, second in the table, maintained the two-point gap to the leaders from Leverkusen and increased their gap BVB on five points. “We kept up with Leverkusen,” said Müller with relief.
The national player was able to gain something positive from Leverkusen’s narrow 3-2 (2-0) win at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim a few hours earlier, at least in one respect.
“I only saw the first half and after Leverkusen made it 2-0 I thought, oh, things are going well again. But suddenly it’s 2-2. Overall, they at least felt that they were vulnerable too “, commented Müller. Without the winning goal from Leverkusen’s new signing Alejandro Grimaldo (70th) to make it 3-2, the Munich team would have pushed the Werkself out of first place thanks to their better goal difference after their win in Dortmund.