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Comparing Bayern Munich’s 2014-15 Stats to Their 2015-16 Figures
- Updated: May 18, 2016
As the 2015-16 European club football season approaches its end, perhaps the most important question pertaining to Bayern Munich is whether and in what ways the club improved relative to the previous season.
Coach Pep Guardiola’s mandate with his signing three years ago was not simply to achieve results, which can be very easily audited, but to develop the club’s playing style in a way that improves the players and has aesthetic appeal.
Guardiola adopted a different approach at Bayern in each season, and 2014-15 was probably the least successful of his Bayern campaigns overall. But statistically, how have the Bavarians changed in the last 12 months or so? The answer can be divided into three parts, one for each competition: The Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal and UEFA Champions League.
In the Bundesliga, Bayern’s numbers are quite interesting. They won the league by 10 points in 2014-15 and 2015-16 and scored 80 goals in both campaigns. Their goals-conceded tally was almost exactly the same as well, 18 in the previous campaign and 17 (a league record) in the most recent.
There are some very big differences in Bayern’s performance over the last two seasons, however. The most obvious is that they managed to earn nine points more (88) in 2015-16 than in the previous campaign (79). The difference is exactly three defeats; they lost five league games in 2014-15 compared to just two in 2015-16.
RT pepstats: 2015/16 Champions League performance for Bayern Munich and Manchester City (relative to all 32 teams) pic.twitter.com/H7qcFQqj1T
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The consistency of Bayern’s goals-scored and goals-conceded records, compared with the sizable difference in their points earned, is a clear indicator that the Bavarians were more effective in 2015-16 than before. It suggests they ran up the score less in games that had already been won, and their rare conceded goals often came in games in which the result was easily secured.
Seven of the goals Bayern conceded in the most recent …
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