Top game on Saturday evening
Borussia Dortmund have not lost 20 Bundesliga games in a row. BVB, on the other hand, has been waiting for a victory in the upper house against FC Bayern for almost exactly five years to the day. If there was another defeat against Munich, the Black and Yellows would have only picked up one point from the last ten league games. Only once in the history of the classic had we had to wait longer for a three-pointer against the record champions.
Borussia Dortmund coach Edin Terzic sent a clear message to the competition in the Bundesliga before the duel with Bayern on Saturday evening (6.30 p.m./Sky). “I don’t want to talk every day about the fact that we want to win titles, I want to show it. “In the games, everyone should have the feeling that we are ready to play for the title,” said the 41-year-old in the press conference on Friday. Last season, BVB gave up the almost certain championship title on the last matchday in a long-distance duel with Bayern.
Small revenge could follow on Saturday if BVB inflicts the next defeat on Bayern within a few days after their surprising cup exit on Wednesday in Saarbrücken. “It will be a difficult task, but we are really looking forward to this special game,” said Terzic. At the same time, he warned: “I have rarely seen two bad games, two bad performances from Bayern in a row.”
BVB in second-longest winless streak against Bayern – Munich team with “anger in their stomachs”
In the five years without a win, Dortmund failed to even score a point eight times. The series of seven bankruptcies in a row between 2019 and 2022 was the longest in the classic history. The only time BVB was without a win against FCB for longer than it is now was when from October 1995 to April 2003 they didn’t score a three-pointer. Back then, in the 14 games without a win, they at least got seven points with the help of draws. One point from the last nine meetings in the Bundesliga is a low for Dortmund.
“It’s a big game in Germany. And it’s a big game for us after the cup to show a reaction,” said Bayern coach Thomas Tuchel on Friday. It is a similar situation to seven months ago, when the Munich stars also showed a reaction in the first game under Tuchel after turbulent days with the replacement of Julian Nagelsmann as Bayern coach and were able to defeat BVB 4-2 in the Allianz Arena. It was a statement.
It is clear what the classics veteran Thomas Müller announced in Saarbrücken: “It will be a completely different game against Dortmund.” Sports director Christoph Freund sent a clear message to his own ensemble: “We have to stand up. We have to play in Dortmund as Bayern Munich. We have to compete with real anger in our stomachs, with conviction and the necessary aggressiveness.”
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