Bayern have won the Bundesliga, but why should you still watch it in 2016?

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Aubameyang, Lewandowski and Chicharito

With half of the season played, there are already a handful of strikers far and ahead of the rest of the Bundesliga in terms of goals scored and impact they’ve had on their teams’ fortunes. Without newly-crowned African Player of the Year Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Borussia Dortmund would be nowhere near the upper echelons of the league. The Gabonese international sit atop the goalscoring charts with eighteen from the first seventeen games of the season – the first player to have scored so many at that point since Gerd Müller in the 1970s – but will still face a challenge to his crown.

Behind him sit the similarly prolific Robert Lewandowski and Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernandez. Lewandowski has somehow kicked on from the ridiculous performances of his Dortmund days and sits on fifteen goals so far, five in the space of a few minutes against Wolfsburg in September, while Hernandez, obviously the most familiar of the three to those from these shores, has impressed in his stint at Lewandowski with eleven league goals – most coming towards the back end of 2015, meaning he’s a man in great form – and for Manchester United fans sick of Louis Van Gaal’s dreck, an envious glance over to more Teutonic ground from time to time is surely a tempting reason to watch the Bundesliga.

Either way, the Bundesliga is currently playing host to some of the game’s most exciting forwards; that, in itself, is worth a watch.