As December approaches the halfway mark and Europe's major leagues are approaching halfway through, Bayern, Manchester City and Inter remain stable and strong among the defending champions of the five major leagues, while Atletico and Lille have seen a huge setback from last season. However, they are definitely not the worst defending champions of the major European leagues this season, as there is one defending champions who are currently at the bottom of the league.
Last weekend's Polish League, last season's league champions Warsaw Legion (Warsaw Legia) lost 1-0 away to Warsaw Procco, and after 16 league rounds, Warsaw Legia only achieved a bad record of 4 wins and 12 losses, and actually ranked first in the league, three points lower than Poznanwata in the safety zone. Although the Warsaw Legion played 1 or even 2 rounds less than most teams, as defending champions, it was absolutely surprising that they had fallen to such a point. In the last 10 rounds, the Warsaw Legion have lost 9 of them and won 1 of Giorgio Ronya. In the following week, they will have two more make-up matches, against the Lubin Basin and Radojak, and the situation is not optimistic. The Polish league schedule is now more than halfway through (18 rounds, 34 rounds in total) and they are already 26 points away from the top team Poznań Lech, and the defending title is certainly not a thought.
In order to reverse the decline, the Warsaw Legion brought back the team's former manager, Serb Alexander Vukovic, who played for the Warsaw Legion twice during his playing years, served as the team's assistant coach and temporary coach after retiring, served as the team's head coach in 2019, and led the Warsaw Legion to the Polish League championship the following year. However, in September last year, he was dismissed due to poor performance. This time back to fight the fire, theoretically it is his fourth time to become the manager of the team, two of which are temporary transitions.
Legia Warsaw is one of Poland's most successful teams, having won 6 league titles and 3 league runners-up in the past 9 seasons, fans naturally can't accept such a gap. Their performance in Europe this season is also very inexplicable, and Leicester City, Napoli have been Moscow Sparta in the same group, first two consecutive wins to rank first in the group, then four consecutive losses, and finally out of the bottom of the group. There is also no shortage of famous players in the team, including former Polish internationals such as veteran goalkeeper Boruc, defender Jejjček and midfielder Kapstka, as well as Czech high school striker Peckhart.
The defending champion finished first from the bottom after halfway, which is indeed an unexpected plot. But as Chinese Super League fans, we've all witnessed the dissolution of the defending champions in their second year, which seems like no big deal.