5 Reasons why Bayern Munich is struggling right now

#5 Teams don't fear Bayern anymore

Gladbach gave Bayern a thrashing at the Allianz Arena last weekend

Much of Bayern's dominance in the Bundesliga has been down to the fact that opposition teams afforded too much respect to the defending champions. Teams would often sit deep allowing Bayern the major chunk of the possession and then would try to counter.

However, all of this changed since the game against Augsburg. Manuel Baum set up his squad to press from the front instead of playing the low block and it worked wonders for them.

Although Augsburg did not score a goal until the dying embers of the game, they did maintain pressure on the Bayern defence throughout the match which finally cracked open to allow Felix Gotze to score against his former club in the 86th minute.

Since then, both Hertha and Gladbach played with a positive, win-minded spirit against the Bavarians and reaped rewards.

Bayern's failure to respond to counter-attacks has been telling so far this season and the same was the reason behind their downfall against both these teams.

Against Ajax also, the away side brought the game to the Bavarians. Had it not been for some fine goalkeeping by Manuel Neuer and some scuppered chances by the likes of Dusan Tadic and Donny van de Beek, the visitors could have easily won by a margin of two to three goals.