Bundesliga Recap: Title Race, Top Four Fight And The Players To Watch

Barring a sudden change of events, the German top flight football league the Bundesliga is set to resume this weekend behind closed doors.

It will be the first of the top five league in Europe to get back to action following the break brought about by the Corona epidemic.

Most Kenyan football fans follow the English Premier League but with that set to resume on a later date, we have compiled a recap of the Bundesliga season to improve your knowledge of the German league.

Title Race

Bundesliga | Why this is the tightest title race in recent history

After years of Bayern Munich strolling to the title, this year has been one of the hotly contested titles in recent history.

Bayern still leads the table with 55 points, four ahead of Borussia Dortmund in second place. RB Leipzig who are managed by the super impressive Julian Nagelsmann are third with 50 points which is just a point above Borussia mönchengladbach.

Juts six points separate the top four teams which will make for a very eventful and nail biting end of the season.

Top Four Race

Bayern Leverkusen in fifth are just two points behind mönchengladbach in fourth. The top five teams at the moment seem like they are the teams who will be fighting it out for the four Champions League places as Schalke 04 is ten points behind Leverkusen in sixth place.

Players To Watch

RB Leipzig beaten, Bundesliga title race thrown wide open

There is an abundance of talents in the Bundesliga but we can only pick four players for this article. Robert Lewandowski is obviously World class and is the leading scorer in the league this season with 25 goals so far this campaign.

Young Germany forward Timo Werner is the second highest scorer with 21 goals, a return that has seen him attract the interest of Liverpool in the transfer market.

Denis Zakaria is also one to watch at mönchengladbach. He is a box to box midfielder with the physicality and technical ability good enough to play for a top four team in the English Premier League. Arsenal is rumored to be interested in his services.

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