Tuesday’s Champions League exit shows that Bayern have allowed their team to become stale and a huge renovation is required for next season
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Bayern Munich have taken no steps forward and one step back. Pep Guardiola oversaw three Bundesliga title wins and three runs to the Champions League semi-finals in his three seasons at the Allianz Arena. Carlo Ancelotti is well on the way towards capturing the domestic crown amid no great competition but has been powerless to prevent the German record champions slumping out of Europe at the quarter-final stage.
The loss of Tuesday goalscorer Robert Lewandowski from the first leg against Real Madrid hampered the side, no doubt, but the evidence of Bayern’s diminishment does not lie in these defeats alone.