Bayer Leverkusen narrowed the gap on Bayern Munich at the top of the Bundesliga table to three points with a 3-1 win over Bochum at BayArena on Friday evening. Aleix Garcia opened the scoring for

Will Leverkusen finish ahead of Bayern when the music stops? Let's just say it would take a well-nigh unprecedented swing of the pendulum this late in a Bundesliga campaign along the lines of Stuttgart overtaking Schalke in 2006-07, but I've been around long enough to know that you should never say it can't happen.

Earlier in March, Bayern Munich eliminated Bayer Leverkusen from the Champions League at the round-of-16 stage of the competition. The Bavarian side progressed to the quarter-final stage, 5-0 on aggregate, courtesy of a 3-0 win at home on March 5, followed by a 2-0 triumph at the Bay Arena six days later.