Borussia Dortmund vs Bayern Munich Match Preview

Match info:

Borussia Dortmund vs Bayern Munich

Competition – German Bundesliga

Stadium – Signal Iduna Park

Date:  23rd November 2013

Kick-off time – 17:30 GMT+1

German Champions Bayern Munich travel to Signal Iduna Park this Saturday evening to face the side they defeated in the 2013 Champions League final, Borussia Dortmund.

These two sides met after the Champions League final in the German Super Cup in July and Dortmund won that match 4:2.

Since that loss, Bayern Munich haven’t lost a single match in 22 games in all competitions.


Recent form:

Borussia Dortmund    – L L W W W W L

Ponte Preta – W W W W W W D

Borussia Dortmund  have lost 3 of their last 7 while Bayern Munich have not lost in 22 consecutive games (Last loss = Borussia Dortmund – German Super Cup).

Form

The German Bundesliga table looks like this:

# 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 Werder Bremen 15 7 4 4 26 25 +1 25
7 Borussia Mönchengladbach 15 7 3 5 25 20 +5 24
8 SC Freiburg 15 7 3 5 21 24 -3 24
9 Stuttgart 15 6 5 4 29 25 +4 23
10 Borussia Dortmund 14 6 4 4 25 21 +4 22
11 Wolfsburg 14 6 3 5 31 25 +6 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 14 3 1 10 18 31 -13 10
17 Holstein Kiel 15 2 2 11 19 38 -19 8
18 VFL Bochum 14 0 3 11 11 35 -24 3

Borrussia Dortmund are currently 2nd and a win will move them to within 1 point of leaders Bayern Munich.

Head-to-head

These two sides have met 47 times in recent years and Bayern Munich have come out on top most often.

History

The last 5 meetings between these two sides finished 4:2, 1:2, 1:1, 0:1 and 1:1.

Possible line-ups

Borussia Dortmund  (4-5-1)

Weidenfeller
Durm
Papastathopoulos
Schmelzer
Großkreutz
Şahin
Bender
Mkhitaryan
Reus
Błaszczykowski
Lewandowski

Bayern Munich (4-5-1)

Neuer
Rafinha
Boateng
Alaba
Dante
Lahm
Ribéry
Martínez
Kroos
Götze
Mandžukić

Bookmakers make Bayern Munich favourites to come out on top in this match.

Odds: Dortmund (13/5) Draw (13/5) Munich (1/1)Gamingtips Prediction – Dortmund 2:3 Munich 

Dortmund have potential injury worries in the form of Neven Subotic, Mats Hummels and Lukasz Piszczek while Bayern will be without Bastian Schweinsteiger, Claudio Pizarro and Xherdan Shaqiri.

Borussia Dortmund finished 25 points behind Bayern Munich last season and even though Bayern Munich have bought some world class players, Dortmund always seem to up the ante against Bayern, especially when they play at home.

The last time Bayern lost was in the German Super Cup 23 games ago and there is no doubt that this will be somewhere in the minds of the Munich players when this game comes around on the 23rd.

The main difference between these two sides is in their defensive records – Bayern Munich conceded just 18 goals in 34 games last season while the rest of the division conceded more than 1 goal per game on average.

These two sides scored a combined total of 179 goals last season and from a neutrals perspective, we should be in for a terrific game with plenty of quality on show.

 

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