Bayern Munich players' epic body transformations before 2020 Champions League win

Bayern Munich are serious Champions League contenders.

Amidst all the justified hype around Liverpool and Manchester City at the moment, it’s easy to forget that there’s a major threat to the Premier League‘s recent domination in Europe’s top competition.

With two of the last three Champions League finals having been all-English affairs, there’s good reason to think that the likes of Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp could be scrapping over ‘Big Ears’ once again.

And while that could still very well prove to be the case, anyone looking to conquer the continent this season will either need to dispatch Bayern along the way or hope that one of their rivals does the job for them.

Besides, lest we forget that it’s barely been 18 months since the Bavarians produced one of the most emphatic Champions League campaigns in living memory, dominating to lift the 2020 title in Lisbon.

The likes of Hansi Flick and Thiago Alcantara might have waved goodbye to the club ever since, but the spine of the Bayern team that swept Barcelona, Chelsea and more aside is still well and truly in tact.

The passing of two years has done absolutely nothing to slow the rate at which Thomas Muller is providing assists by the dozen and Robert Lewandowski seems to permanently be in Ballon d’Or-contending form.

And all of that was painfully apparent to Bayern’s biggest rivals earlier on Tuesday night as the German champions absolutely demolished Red Bull Salzburg 7-1 in the second leg of their round of 16 clash.

It might ‘only’ have been against Austria’s finest, but such an outrageous scoreline – featuring a Lewandowski hat-trick, naturally – serves as a warning shot to anyone looking to win the Champions League nevertheless.

And frankly, any club wanting to