"But it's good for the league. It's what everyone has been wishing for," said Philipp Lahm, per Kicker. Not without a degree of irony after Bayern Munich's defeat at Borussia Dortmund on Saturday, as it means that RB Leipzig—the other club German football fans love to hate—will end the weekend on top of the Bundesliga table.
For the first time in 39 Matchdays, some 425 calendar days, Bayern will not be top of the league ahead of the next round of games. It is an inhabitual position for the record German champions, who find themselves in second place, three points behind the leaders and—perhaps more significantly—just a victory ahead of Dortmund, now lurking ominously on their shoulders in third.