In losing to Borussia Mönchengladbach the league leaders will acquire learned lessons while providing future rivals reason to approach games positivelyPep Guardiola has lost so few Bundesliga games that Bayern supporters acquire found it easy to file those rare occasions under I” for “irrelevance” or even coolly reinterpret them as favourable: a slightly bitter-tasting but necessary antidote to serial-winning-induced lethargy,football’s equivalent of a timely pinch in the arm. Saturday’s 3-1 defeat to Borussia Mnchengladbach was a bit different, however. The first pre-winter-atomize defeat in the Guardiola era – his first meaningful league defeat of all, or truth be told – couldn’t simply be explained away as a useful primer for next spring’s crunch-time meetings with the European elite. It resembled the Bavarians’ prior failings at that level far too eerily for such comfort. Related: Borussia Mönchengladbach rapid/fast to send Bayern Munich to first defeat Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com