On Saturday (6:30 p.m.), the Bundesliga is watching the top game between BVB and FC Bayern.
Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich are fighting for three important points as well as a lot of prestige in a direct duel. The starting position is balanced, as both teams go into the race with 15 points from eight games. In addition, both the district club and the record champions were recently able to gain self-confidence in the Champions League.
Which staff can the two head coaches Edin Terzic and Julian Nagelsmann fall back on? And what are the concerns of the two teams? sport.de delivers the most important information right up until kick-off.
+++ The line-up of BVB +++
Edin Terzic surprises with his line-up, because: BVB starts with Nico Schlotterbeck, Niklas Süle and Mats Hummels. Niklas Süle will probably go on the right path in the back four, Thomas Meunier is not in the squad for the short term. Substitute Alexander Meyer is in the goal again, regular Gregor Kobel sits on the bench. In attack, Youssoufa Moukoko is preferred to Anthony Modeste after recent strong performances.
+++ The line-up of FC Bayern +++
At Bayern, Joshua Kimmich is initially on the bench after recovering from corona disease. Kingsley Coman is back but not in the starting XI. Coach Julian Nagelsmann had stated that he believed the French “30, maybe 40 minutes”.
+++ BVB youngster is out +++
Good and bad news for Borussia Dortmund. According to “Sky”, Mats Hummels is actually back in the BVB squad. Marius Wolf is also available. Less gratifying: Youngster Giovanni Reyna didn’t make the team and will miss tonight.
+++ Bayern arrived at Signal Iduna Park +++
FC Bayern has arrived at the BVB stadium. So nothing stands in the way of playing the game:
+++ Bayern boss Salihamidzic misses the duel at BVB +++
Sports director Hasan Salihamidzic from record champions Bayern Munich will not be in the stadium for the top game because of a flu infection. FC Bayern announced this via Twitter a few hours before the game kicked off.
+++ How important Reus and Hummels are for BVB +++
Marco Reus and Mats Hummels are not just captains and deputies at Borussia Dortmund and are therefore the most important players in the squad. The BVB duo is also very familiar with the games against FC Bayern – the loss of the attacker and the question mark behind the use of the central defender are all the more serious.
In numbers: No other Bundesliga player has scored more goals against Manuel Neuer than Marco Reus – he has beaten the DFB captain eight times so far.
Meanwhile, Mats Hummels is the active player with the most appearances in the “classic”: The defender is about to play his 26th game (so far 19 times for BVB, six times for Bayern). Thomas Müller, who is missing due to a corona infection, has 24 games against BVB under his belt.
+++ BVB vs. FC Bayern: The expected line-ups +++
BVB:
Starting eleven: Kobel – Meunier, Süle, Schlotterbeck, Guerreiro – Can, Bellingham, Özcan – Brandt, Malen – Moukoko
Bench: Meyer, Hummels, Passlack, Rothe, Reyna, Wolf, Adeyemi, Hazard, Modeste
FC Bayern:
Starting eleven: Neuer – Pavard, Upamecano, de Ligt, Davies – Goretzka, Sabitzer – Musiala – Sané, Gnabry, Mané
Bank: Ulreich, Mazraoui, Stanisic, Coman, Gravenberch, Kimmich, Choupo-Moting, Tel
+++ Terzic still undefeated against Nagelsmann +++
BVB versus Bayern, that’s also Terzic versus Nagelsmann this year – a duel that has happened four times on the sidelines so far. The Borussia coach won three times, including the 2021 cup final against RB Leipzig, and there was a draw once.
+++ Moukoko is hot: “I’m really in the mood” +++
Borussia Dortmund’s Youssoufa Moukoko goes into the game against Bayern Munich with great confidence. “I’m really keen to play a good game and keep those three points,” said the 17-year-old in BVB TV magazine: “The fans too, the whole team. I have a really good feeling.”
Moukoko had replaced the much more static Anthony Modeste in the starting eleven in the Champions League game at FC Sevilla (4: 1) in the center of the attack. It is to be expected that he will also start on Saturday and remain a regular player for the coming weeks.
Moukoko sees himself mentally much stronger after quite difficult months with irregular assignments: “I appear with a completely different self-confidence than last year. That is also due to the trust of the coaches.” He decided the derby against Schalke 04 (1-0) as a joker. The motto against Bayern is: “Full pot, one hundred percent.”
+++ Nagelsmann’s reunion with Süle +++
In the top game between BVB and Bayern, Julian Nagelsmann and Niklas Süle, whom he coached both in Hoffenheim and in Munich, meet again. Was there an exchange before the meeting? That would be “strange,” said the Bayern coach at the matchday press conference. You can read all the statements here.
+++ BVB is also heating up its fans +++
A little later, the hosts from Dortmund wake up and heat up their fans with a video in which the most emotional cheering scenes from the season so far have been edited together.
+++ FC Bayern gets in the mood +++
FC Bayern gets itself and its fans in the mood on Twitter. Before the game in Dortmund, the record champions published a video showing attacker Serge Gnabry’s dream goal against black and yellow in 3: 1 (2: 0) last April. “Serge Gnabry knows how to do it in the classics,” wrote the Munich team.
+++ BVB and FC Bayern head-to-head +++
FC Bayern has won all of the last seven duels in the Bundesliga against Borussia Dortmund. The last BVB victory dates from the 2018/19 season, when black and yellow won 3: 2 (0: 1) at home.
Despite the balanced table situation, the Munich team are therefore the favorites to travel to the Ruhr area. The result in the comparison of the individual players is correspondingly clear. Here is the photo gallery.
+++ FC Bayern is hoping for BVB expert Coman +++
Kingsley Coman is something like the Dortmund fright personified. The Frenchman has won all of his nine league games against BVB so far, no other player has such a good record. If you take all competitions together, the personal Coman record against black and yellow with 16:1 victories is also outstanding.
But whether and how long the winger will play on Saturday night is uncertain. After surviving a muscle fiber tear, Coman is back in the squad and “ready”, according to Julian Nagelsmann. “He could definitely play 30 or 40 minutes,” said the Bayern coach.
+++ Is Hummels back? Who will replace Mueller? +++
Several personnel questions accompany the top game. On the BVB side, three players are returning to the squad in Mats Hummels, Marius Wolf and Giovanni Reyna. BVB coach Edin Terzic left open whether central defender Hummels would promptly return to the starting XI. It’s possible that first-choice goalkeeper Gregor Kobel will return between the posts after surviving a torn muscle fiber. Meanwhile, captain Marco Reus is not an option.
FC Bayern, however, has to do without Thomas Müller, who still has cold symptoms after his corona disease. Joshua Kimmich, who was also recently infected, “had no more symptoms and felt nothing,” said Nagelsmann in advance.
+++ Tricky referee appointment at BVB vs. FC Bayern +++
Top referee Deniz Aytekin officiates the top game between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich. For the first time in the history of the Bundesliga, a Bavarian will lead the hit game between Borussia Dortmund and FC Bayern.
The 44-year-old lives in the district of Fürth and whistles in the Bundesliga for the Bavarian state association. It is therefore actually impossible that Aytekin will be awarded the contract for the BVB vs. FC Bayern game. Since the corona pandemic, the statutes regarding the appointment of referees have been softened anyway, so now the next step.
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