Xabi Alonso is TRUTH: He conquered Bayern & broke Muller’s brain in this process

Xabi Alonso is the truth: He conquered Bayern and broke Thomas Muller’s brain in the process

This kind of result makes you sit up and take notice. Bayer Leverkusen 3-0 Bayern Munich. If it wasn’t clear already, it is now; Xabi Alonso is European football’s next great coach and it would be an act of lunacy for Liverpool to look anywhere else for Jurgen Klopp’s successor.

The win kept up Bayer Leverkusen’s unbeaten run in all competitions. Thirty-one games. Twenty-seven wins. Four draws. They’re now five points clear at the top of the Bundesliga and still going great guns on all fronts. Not only is Alonso leading Leverkusen – a club that have never won the Bundesliga – to one of the greatest seasons in their history, but he’s masterminding one of the great campaigns from any team, anywhere.

It was a flagship performance that will long be looked back on as one of the defining moments for this side. Not since Klopp himself was at Dortmund have Bayern had an opponent of this quality – not only the team, but the architect of their excellence.

The comprehensive scoreline was representative of the chasm between the two sides. Leverkusen registered just 38% possession but were perfect with and without the ball. They limited Harry Kane, a striker on track to break Robert Lewandowski’s Bundesliga record, to his quietest game. They registered eight shots on target to Bayern’s one and kept Thomas Tuchel’s side, the xG leaders of European football, to just 0.27xG.

It brought to mind the time Klopp’s Dortmund went and beat Jose Mourinho’s Real Madrid 4-1 over a decade ago. A statement of a changing of the guard. The future has arrived.

Bayern’s wage bill and squad cost dwarfs Leverkusen, but here was a better-coached side bloodying their