EPL outshines Bundesliga in Champs League

LONDON. — The Bundesliga may boast two of last season’s Champions League finalists and financial system admired across Europe — but is the league really that good? Bayern Munich, the current European champions, have maintained their relentless pursuit of success still owned in the majority by fans.

Members control 82 per cent of the club and vote every three years on who makes up the board of directors.
They have hugely expensive VIP tickets and use that to offset regular tickets for as little as £6.50.

In their highly successful standing areas season tickets — for the Champions League title holders, no less — can be bought for a mere £125.
There are very few oil barons or billionaire business owners in the Bundesliga and only Wolfsburg, who are owned by Volkswagen, and Bayer Leverkusen, controlled by pharmaceutical company Bayer, are not predominantly owned by fans.

If the Bundesliga is like an episode of Countryfile then the Premier League is more comparable to Hollyoaks.
But what the English top flight lacks in stability, it has made up for in ability on the pitch this season.

All four English teams have won on their travels to Germany in this season’s Champions League, with a total of 12 goals scored and only two conceded in those four games.

In eight Champions League matches between clubs from the two countries, the English teams have won six times while the German teams have won just two matches — both of them coming in England when Bayern Munich beat Manchester City and Dortmund edged Arsenal.

But in Germany, the English teams have been unstoppable.
First Chelsea went to Schalke and thrashed them 3-0 at the Parkstadion (Fernando Torres even scored twice) in October.

Arsenal then travelled to Borussia Dortmund, last year’s finalists who finished runner-up to Bayern Munich.
All four English teams have won on their travels to Germany in this season’s Champions League, with a total of 12 goals scored and only two conceded in those four games.

First Chelsea went to Schalke and thrashed them 3-0 at the Parkstadion (Fernando Torres even scored twice) in October. Arsenal then travelled to Borussia Dortmund, last year’s finalists who finished runner-up to Bayern Munich. —AFP.