The Bundesliga title race is heating up in Germany and it’s refreshing to say that for a change. Even with its star array and sizzling hot atmosphere, the top episode is often predictable.

European royalty Bayern Munich have won the Meisterschale skin race in a row, but with six weeks left in the season, the title race is wide open.

Yes, Bayern are at the top of the league right now. But this time it feels different. There’s real competition, and it’s exciting.

Since 2012, no team has won the country’s top league without Bayern Munich. At the time, Dortmund and Jurgen Klopp won back-to-back titles in 2011 and the following season. Bayern Munich was the dominant side of the decade, winning 10 titles in a row. They earned more than 10 points in seven of these matches. They also won two European Cups.

No other team even came close. They are the absolute overwhelming force of European football.

Bayern recently beat Dortmund at the top.

The chase is at the top this season and it looks like Dortmund can finally win again. They were at the top of the league before losing 4-2 in Munich. In that match, Bayern made a statement to remind everyone who is boss, at least for now.

Off the field, Bayern shocked the continent by sacking manager Julian Nagelsmann. At 35, he is one of the youngest managers ever to coach at the elite level of European football. Unfortunately, he was fired while on a ski vacation in Austria and was not even aware that his job was in danger, according to reports. Bayern replaced him with compatriot and former manager Chelsea Thomas Tuchel, who won the club’s second Champions League trophy.

Positive feedback came back to Tuchel’s appointment in Munich after beating Dortmund 4-2 in his first match. Could a new manager be enough to win the 11th consecutive title in May?

In Berlin, Hertha is constantly fighting for the top spot in the league, but this time smaller club Union have made a splash in this campaign.

With 12 games to play, they are third at the table and just four points behind Bayern. Even though their chances of winning the championship are very low, it’s still a miracle that they have a chance at this stage.

Union is having another magical season

“It’s beyond anyone’s wildest dreams to stick with the championship race this long,” said Union Englisch contributor Kyle Walsh, “this is clearly the best season Union has ever had.”

“I didn’t think the championship would be possible, but still I didn’t think that our successes in recent seasons were possible. We qualified for European football, we even got to the Bundesliga in first place. This team loves it. Surprise.”

The struggle for relegation in the lower ranks is also in the skin. The relegation format in the Bundesliga is slightly different from other major leagues in Europe. While the teams in the last two go down automatically, the team that finished in the 16th place makes the playoffs with the team that finished first in Bundesliga 2. To make an exciting peak to the season as the motivation for promotion from the second league. opposes the desperate desire to avoid relegation.

Hertha Berlin is currently 16th in the Bundesliga, but at the very bottom of the league, so there’s everything to play. Only eight points separate the last six teams. It is therefore realistic to assume that anyone could be involved in a relegation disaster.

It’s great to see everything up close for a change. Will Bayern fall from its ten-year perch? Or will the dominant team of the league win again? Germany has everything to play in an exciting Bundesliga league where everything is above and below the table.