Do Borussia Dortmund Need to Make Changes to Be Bundesliga Contenders Next Year?

Looking at the Bundesliga table must trigger a bittersweet feeling for Borussia Dortmund’s decision-makers at the moment.

The Black and Yellows are playing an incredible campaign, as numbers relayed by the club’s official website prove:

The season of superlatives continues. 80 (!!) Goals scored, and with 77 points the team are now well on their way to a points record (the current one stands at 81). Furthermore, there remains a 20 point gap between second and third in the table, BVB have not lost once in the second half of the season and have not been beaten in over a year at the Signal Iduna Park —utter madness!

Still, though, the league title has been out of their reach for months. Bayern Munich may not have clinched it mathematically just yet, but there hasn’t been any doubt for quite a while: The Bavarians will win their fourth straight Bundesliga championship.

It seems almost unfair to suggest Dortmund need to make changes in order to be a contender considering they’re on their way to a points total that would’ve been enough to hoist the Meisterschale, as the Bundesliga trophy is called in Germany, in all but two seasons since the league’s inception in 1963—Bayern won the 2012/13 season with 91 and the 2013/14 season with 90 points.

However, there’s a reason why Dortmund won’t be champions this campaign, and it’s not exclusively Bayern’s strength. Simply put, the Black and Yellows dropped too many points in the first half of the season.

They’ve already won one more point in the 15 matches since the turn of the year than they had in the 17 matches before the winter break. …

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