Borussia Dortmund vs Bayern Munich Preview

Borussia Dortmund vs Bayern Munich

Competition – German Bundesliga

Stadium – SIGNAL IDUNA PARK

Date: 8th October 2022

Kick-off time – 17:30 GMT

Bayern Munich will travel to Dortmund this Saturday to face Borussia Dortmund in the first Bundesliga Klassiker of the 2022/23 campaign.

The hosts come into this fixture looking for a first win against their fierce rivals in nine tries, having suffered eight straight defeats in their last eight games.

Despite their poor record against the Bavarians, they will enter into this fixture in confident mood following an impressive match in the Champions League in midweek.

Edin Terzic’s men produced arguably their best display of the season last time out as they beat Spanish La Liga side Sevilla 4-1 on Wednesday. The game was remarkable as it saw English teenager Jude Bellingham captain the team for the second time this season. The 19-year-old also produced a mature performance with a goal and an assist in the game.

With this game at Signal Iduna Park representing their biggest game of the season so far both in its significance and the fact that the winner of the match could go top of the table this week, Terzic will hope that his side can build on their impressive showing in Spain and get first bragging rights of the season.

Having missed the chance to go top of the Bundesliga table last week with a disappointing 3-2 loss to Cologne, Dortmund can go three points above Bayern if they win this game given that both sides come into this tie sitting on 15 points.

Bayern Munich won their second game in a row since coming back from the international break when they beat Viktoria Plzen 5-0 last Tuesday.

The Bavarians endured a poor run of form just before the international break as they failed to win any of their four league games before that. But they bounced back in style in their first fixture after the break–a 4-0 win over Champions League side Bayer Leverkusen.

They will travel to North Rhine-Westphalia sitting third in the Bundesliga table, two points behind surprise leaders Union Berlin but with a chance to top the table given that neither Union Berlin nor second-placed Freiburg are in action until Sunday.

Having scored nine times in their last two games without conceding a goal, they will go into this fixture confident of extending their winning run in this fixture to nine games.

Other fixtures taking place this week in the German Bundesliga:

January 10, 2025
Borussia Dortmund 20:30 Bayer 04 Leverkusen
January 11, 2025
Heidenheim 15:30 Union Berlin
SC Freiburg 15:30 Holstein Kiel
Mainz 15:30 VFL Bochum
FC St. Pauli 15:30 Eintracht Frankfurt
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 15:30 Wolfsburg
Borussia Mönchengladbach 18:30 Bayern Munich
January 12, 2025
RB Leipzig 15:30 Werder Bremen
Augsburg 1907 17:30 Stuttgart
January 14, 2025
Holstein Kiel 18:30 Borussia Dortmund
Wolfsburg 20:30 Borussia Mönchengladbach
Bayer 04 Leverkusen 20:30 Mainz
Eintracht Frankfurt 20:30 SC Freiburg
January 15, 2025
VFL Bochum 18:30 FC St. Pauli
Stuttgart 20:30 RB Leipzig
Bayern Munich 20:30 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
Werder Bremen 20:30 Heidenheim
Union Berlin 20:30 Augsburg 1907
January 17, 2025
Eintracht Frankfurt 20:30 Borussia Dortmund

German Bundesliga Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Bayern Munich 15 11 3 1 47 13 +34 36
2 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 15 9 5 1 37 21 +16 32
3 Eintracht Frankfurt 15 8 3 4 35 23 +12 27
4 RB Leipzig 15 8 3 4 24 20 +4 27
5 Mainz 15 7 4 4 28 20 +8 25
6 Borussia Dortmund 15 7 4 4 28 22 +6 25
7 Werder Bremen 15 7 4 4 26 25 +1 25
8 Borussia Mönchengladbach 15 7 3 5 25 20 +5 24
9 SC Freiburg 15 7 3 5 21 24 -3 24
10 Stuttgart 15 6 5 4 29 25 +4 23
11 Wolfsburg 15 6 3 6 32 28 +4 21
12 Union Berlin 15 4 5 6 14 19 -5 17
13 Augsburg 1907 15 4 4 7 17 32 -15 16
14 FC St. Pauli 15 4 2 9 12 19 -7 14
15 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 15 3 5 7 20 28 -8 14
16 Heidenheim 15 3 1 11 18 33 -15 10
17 Holstein Kiel 15 2 2 11 19 38 -19 8
18 VFL Bochum 15 1 3 11 13 35 -22 6

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