Comparing Bayern Munich's 2013-14 Stats to Their 2014-15 Figures

Bayern Munich may be left to lick their wounds over the international break, following their recent 2-0 defeat to Borussia Monchengladbach, yet on the whole, this season is going exactly according to plan for Pep Guardiola and his side. 

In fact, such consistency in the Bundesliga and Champions League has brought with it a rather notable comparison to the Munich side's campaign last year. 

Just how do this side compare to the team that won the double last season?

We begin with what should really be considered the most important stat of any season for any team in world football: How many games have they won?

Guardiola's squad have looked just as thorough in their pursuit of silverware this season as they had last year, yet when we tally up all the wins from this current campaign in Europe and the league, Bayern's win ratio actually comes in at slightly lower than their Bundesliga-winning run last year.

The Bavarian giants may have been knocked out of Europe's Champions League in the semi-finals last season, but come May, they had managed to maintain a win ratio of 78 percent. This season, so far, the German champions have only been able to keep up a win ratio of 76 percent.

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This doesn't seem like too much—in the grand scheme of things, it isn't—but what we should consider is that this current campaign is only going to get harder for Guardiola's squad as they approach the business end of the season. Europe is about to get drastically harder and the chase for their consecutive Bundesliga title will surely pile on the pressure. 

As such, we should probably expect that percentage to fall in the coming months and undoubtedly get further from the standard set last season. 

A similar pattern emerges when we consider the amount of goals Bayern are scoring, compared to the same amount of games they played last year. 

Using just the Champions League and Bundesliga matches as our range, we find that Guardiola's team have scored 93 goals so far this season but amassed 95 by this point last season. 

Again, the margins are absolutely tiny, but we must consider that Bayern's Champions League tally has been greatly inflated by their comfortable 7-1 win over Roma and the 7-0 victory against Shakhtar Donetsk. Outstanding individual games for the squad but poor opposition who offered very little but cannon fodder for a team who are scoring slightly fewer goals than last season. 

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When we then break down where these goals are coming from, we find that there has been a very notable shift in who most fans would consider Bayern's primary and even secondary goalscorers this season and last. 

in the 2013/14 season, Mario Mandzukic was quite comfortably considered the key source of goals for Guardiola's team with a Bundesliga goal or assist ratio of 0.8 per game, while the likes of Thomas Muller and Arjen Robben followed behind with 0.77 and 0.6 per game, respectively. 

Yet with Mandzukic's sale and the arrival of Robert Lewandowski, the goalposts have shifted, and we've seen the two aforementioned attacking midfielders increase their load of the goals and assists. 

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This season, Lewandowski sits on a respectable 0.75 goals or assists per game in the Bundesliga, but that still falls short of his predecessor by 0.05. Yet, perhaps coincidentally, we've seen Robben almost double his ratio to 1.19 and Muller jump up to 0.96, meaning the team were able to maintain the same amount of goals but just change who scores them. 

As expected, very little aside from the manner in which the team score has actually changed between last season and this current campaign. By and large, this is still the same side Guardiola inherited, and although he has made a number of tweaks along the way, the Bavarian giants are still the same predictable, yet outstanding side that will hope to pick up everything worth winning in May. 

@Sbienkowski