Germany League - Bundesliga Prediction Thread

[Humblevirus]

In their last three games, Bayern Munich has not defeated a strong opponent, their most recent victory was against poor opponents that cannot excape the relegation zone. We cannot conclude that they are back to winning ways just because they has scored a lot of goals in their last two games. Bayern Munich's next game is against Dortmund, who are a powerful opponent. Considering Dortmund are in a good form, Bayern Munich will need to fight for the victory. However, I will believe Bayern Munich is back to their winning ways, if they win against Dortmund in that game.

Bayern Munich have deformed in the Bundesliga competition; they are not really doing well, and that is why Bayern Leverkusen is about to break their record. They have been losing important matches. Imagine Bayern Munich losing to teams that we did not expect they would lose to. You can see that they deformed seriously. However, their match against Dortmund will be a tough match for Bayern Munich because I did not see any sign that will make them win against Dortmund, but we don’t know yet. Maybe Dortmund will be the first strong team that will collect defeat from Bayern Munich, so let's see how their next match will go.

Although Arsenal is in good form, but Bayern Munich consistently beats Arsenal in the Champions League. It will be very difficult to predict the result of this next Champions League game. Arsenal did not have good records against Bayern Munich in the Champions League, they can eliminate Bayern if they play like they did in the Premier League games, since Arteta has gathered new players, I'm hoping that Arsenal might defeat Bayern Munich. Leverkusen is leading the Bundesliga, while Real Madrid and Manchester City are still in the Champions League, I don't think Bayern Munich will have a chance to win a title this season.

You see these two titles: the Champions League and the Bundesliga. I don’t think Bayern Munich are going to get any of them this season due to the teams that they will be competing with. We all know that Manchester City and Real Madrid are far better than Bayern Munich at the moment, so we don’t have to think that they will win the league title as if the Bundesliga Bayern Leverkusen have been unbeaten throughout the season, so I do not see anything that will give me hope that maybe Bayern Munich are going to get any of these titles.

[bitpotter]

Nagelsmann was working at Bayern Munich and they got him fired from the team because of the bad relationship he had in the team with some players including Manuel Neuer and the bad performance he had, that's why Tuchel got his place in Bayern Munich got he couldn't have a good performance and failed to get the results they wanted to see which made Bayern Munich in the situation to even be close to losing the Bundesliga title after years of the winning this trophy, that's why Bayern Munich is thinking about another coach to take the place of Tuchel in the team.
Now their former coach Nagelsmann is working for the German national team, They asked him if he would return to Bayern Munich and start working there again, however, Nagelsmann didn't reject anything but he said everything possible.



https://dailysports.net/news/everything-is-possible-bayern-munich-ceo-on-the-possible-return-of-his-former-coach/

It seems like Nagelsmann is still keeping the door open if Bayern Munich are interested in recruiting him again, but as a big team it would be a shame after expelling the coach last season. Maybe if Bayern Munich have no shame they will try to contact Nagelsmann after his work at Euro 2024 with Germany ends. However, it is possible that Bayern Munich could look for other coaching options and I think that could still happen rather than having to return to their former coach.

[Jegileman]

Some seem to be suggesting that the 10 point gap between Leverkusen and Bayern is due to Bayern having a weaker season and not playing as good as in the past years, when they won the league.
That's not quite true. Bayern's average points per game this season is 2.31, meaning that, if their performance remain consistent, they should expect to have 78-79 points at the end of the season.
In comparison, last year they've won with 71 points, the year before with 77 points.
In conclusion - Bayern is not underperforming (at least so far), it's just the Leverkusen is that good.

I also don’t see Bayern Munich underperforming this season as much as other people are seeing it. They just met a better and stronger opponent than them this season which is why they’re in the position they are now. Not even Dortmund their close rival given them such a tough time in the league ever since they’ve been winning the league title and Dortmund coming as runner up for the title. Bayern Munich performance is still great and that can also be confirmed from their participation in the Champions League and how string and undefeated they are till date. Bayern is not bad, they just met a better and stronger Bayern Leverkusen than they would have ever thought it when the season ends last year.

[Weawant]

You see these two titles: the Champions League and the Bundesliga. I don’t think Bayern Munich are going to get any of them this season due to the teams that they will be competing with. We all know that Manchester City and Real Madrid are far better than Bayern Munich at the moment, so we don’t have to think that they will win the league title as if the Bundesliga Bayern Leverkusen have been unbeaten throughout the season, so I do not see anything that will give me hope that maybe Bayern Munich are going to get any of these titles.

It's very possible Bayern Munich may even not get any trophy by the end of the season because they aren't facing weak teams and the pressure isn't a mild one at all and they are not even have that very tough skin they used to have this season again they are a bit weak this season as compared to their form they used to have subsequent season where I can say maybe they could possibly get something out of the season but then it has turned out thst both leagues have become very tough.

Bayern Munich actually started off very well this season but at se point they suffered see kind of set back and that alone now caused them to be a bit well for awhile after which they have been unable to properly recover from the effects of that which had happened to them earlier but then I think they still have next season to fix the team properly and get to win trophies again next season because this season isn't looking like one that will favour them at all, they are not in the best form to win any trophy this season, but if they get back their form, it's very possible they will be able to get it next season.

Leverkusen is the most probably for the bundesliga and for the champions league it's between Manchester city and Madrid though it will become very clear after their next fixture which we are expecting any if the team that wins will get to become the most probable to getting to the finals of the champions league but if Bayern improves they could possibly still get to the finals even if they don't win

[Josefjix]

You see these two titles: the Champions League and the Bundesliga. I don’t think Bayern Munich are going to get any of them this season due to the teams that they will be competing with. We all know that Manchester City and Real Madrid are far better than Bayern Munich at the moment, so we don’t have to think that they will win the league title as if the Bundesliga Bayern Leverkusen have been unbeaten throughout the season, so I do not see anything that will give me hope that maybe Bayern Munich are going to get any of these titles.

The top targets are likely not going to be triggered, Bayern Munich board will have a meeting where they decides the future of Thomas Tuchel, they also look forward to see him exits the door at the end of this current season, he's having zero impact on his squad. Its so sad to say that Bayern Munich are going to trophyless for the first time in the past decades this season. They're not in any tight corner to catch up with Bayer Leverkusen on the table and when it comes to the UEFA champions league, they're not also promising due to their inconsistent performance in matches.

[Lafu]

That would be bad news for Bayern Munich fans, as Bayern Munich are trying to get their form back in the league and even now fans are increasingly anxious if Neuer misses a crucial Champions league game, previously Bayern Munich also almost lost Kane due to an ankle injury when hitting the post during the game against Darmstadt,  But it seems that they are quite relieved when they hear that Kane is currently not seriously injured, but it turns out that now Bayern Munich must lose Neuer who is a tough figure in guarding Munich's goal so far.

I dont know if its that bad that he maybe miss the Champions League game , but for sure i guess against Dortmund he will be out.
Bayern Munich have another good second goalkeeper in there team so i think they are not afraid about that.

Leverkusen is the most probably for the bundesliga

If all goes well and good its possible that Leverkusen will get the triple this season.
That would be awesome and good for the club and for the next season.

[marcous]

Bayern Munich vs Borussia Dortmund is one of the derby matches in the Bundesliga, and they will play next week. This will be an interesting match, because in every meeting they play the game is always heated, especially the Borussia Dortmund supporters who don't like Bayern Munich, because they think that Bayern Munich always takes over the star players that Borussia Dortmund has. If we look at it, Borussia Dortmund itself is the one who always sells the valuable players they have.

Borussia Dortmund this season is not as good as last season, so this could be an opportunity for Bayern Munich to beat their guests. However, that doesn't mean they will be able to get it easily, because BOrussia Dortmund themselves will definitely do their best to achieve the best results in this match. What is clear is that they did not come to taste defeat, but they came to steal points from Bayern Munich headquarters. Borussia Dortmund's chances are not much greater than Bayern Munich's, but they are still dangerous.

These two teams have always attracted all Bundesliga football fans because the tension in the games between these two teams is always quite heated, therefore this match may be quite difficult to predict who will be the winner. Why do I say that because Bayern Munich lately they haven't shown good enough concentration in the Bundesliga so it's possible that Dortmund can beat them. The opportunity that Dortmund has is quite small considering that Bayern munich is playing at home, automatically they are quite strong because they have great support from their supporters.

Apart from that, in the first match of the season where the final score was 0-4 where Bayern munich came out as winners. So in their second match in Week 27, will Dortmund be able to avenge their defeat or will Dortmund lose again with a big score?  For Harry Kane, of course he will miss this match because he recently suffered an injury, but he may be able to play because this match will take place at the end of this month. In terms of strength, maybe Bayern Munich is stronger, but in this case Dortmund can break many people's arguments if they succeed in beating Bayern Munich in front of their supporters.

[Smack That Ace]

Christian Streich has announced to leave Freiburg at the end of the season. He has been involved with the club for 29 years, firstly as player then Youth club coach and in the end, head coach of the main team since 29th Dec 2011.
He said "I thought long and hard, but I believe it’s the right time after 29 years to allow in new people, new energy, new possibilities here. I also believe our players and the people around us will need that new energy. It’s always been important to me that I don’t miss the time where I believe it’s time to go."

It is extraordinary for someone to be a coach and 29 years spent at a club is not an easy thing. In fact, he started as a club player and finally continued his career as a coach for Freiburg as a whole. His love for Freiburg is ingrained and his loyalty cannot be measured by anything. It seems that he also realized that his coaching abilities were no longer comparable to those of other coaches and perhaps because of that he felt tired and preferred to leave Freiburg.

It was a wise decision, especially since Christian Streich is not new to the club and he is very open to anyone in the future being able to handle this team and bring success to each season. As a mediocre team in the Bundesliga, I think Freiburg is not too bad and in fact last season under the guidance of Christian Streich they competed in the top 4 but unfortunately they only got one place in the European league. But overall it was very good and I think with the new coach we can have the same success.

Yes, I would agree with you as well @rendravolt. It was a wise decision and moment for him to leave the club right now. What he has achieved with Freiburg is nothing less than amazing. I would say it is the dream of any player to start playing for a club at the youth level, then senior level, and then slowly becoming their head coach and becoming this much more successful. We have seen previously in history that many legendary players of the club become managers of that club and fail and see themselves becoming villains.

For example: Lampard on Chelsea. He had a mediocre run while he was in charge of Chelsea and sort of became the villain.

I guess Streich made the right decision, he will be a hero to every fan of Freiburg and not a villain which is the most important thing for any club legend.

Duke Khan

[el kaka22]

Nearly 500 games with the same club, that's something we do not see pretty often and I believe that we are going to end up with nothing like that ever again. It has been 13 seasons and that's good enough for him. Not saying he should retire, he will probably come back after a while because sitting at home all day is not fun for most people who worked as hard as him, when you get a taste of this world, you want to get back (probably) so I am assuming that he might actually come back if all goes well in his life.

But, I do understand the logic to give it a break as well, it makes sense and I assume that it will definitely be something that's not going to be all that complicated for him, it should probably result fine.

[Tony116]

You are right, t would not be fair to compare Lewandowski with Harry Kane at the moment. But I want to explain that Lewandowski's worthy replacement is Harry Kane. And Harry Kane proved his mettle in the first season itself. We see good performance from Harry kane in almost every match.

As harry kane has been performing so well this season, expect him to be even better in munich in the next few seasons. And maybe Lelandowski will break his record. harry kane has this ability.

Harry Kane is in great form. He is performing very well in every match. However, the Bayern Munich team cannot take advantage of Harry Kane's excellent performance. Bayern Munich is not able to dominate the Bundesliga this season. And the team won't even win the title.

Yes, I admit that Harry Kane will be Lewandowski's substitute which is very appropriate even though it is now the first season without getting a Bundesliga title, but I'm sure the biggest target of Harry Kane is to help Bayern Munich to get the Champion League title and currently Bayern Munich managed to enter the 8th round Great in CL even though he had worried because it had experienced a very deep decline in performance, but in the end now Bayern Munich has succeeded in improving the quality of its performance and let's see whether Bayern Munich this season will replace the Bundesliga title with the CL title and will give pride to Harry Kane.

I think Bayern Munich is actually failing Harry Kane. And it is very rare for me to say something like a club is failing a player because in general, it is the other way around. But in this case, I will say Bayern Munich is failing Harry Kane. And I will actually say that the coach is failing Bayern Munich. Now I think we already know that the chance of them winning the Bundesliga title is slim to none. So they should aim for the Champions League title. I don't know how much only Harry Kane will be able to do for them in the Champions League. The whole team will have to perform well to actually achieve that title. But I don't think they are winning the Champions League title as well

[Mayor of ogba]

In their last three games, Bayern Munich has not defeated a strong opponent, their most recent victory was against poor opponents that cannot excape the relegation zone. We cannot conclude that they are back to winning ways just because they has scored a lot of goals in their last two games. Bayern Munich's next game is against Dortmund, who are a powerful opponent. Considering Dortmund are in a good form, Bayern Munich will need to fight for the victory. However, I will believe Bayern Munich is back to their winning ways, if they win against Dortmund in that game.

It seems like that's what it is.
In the 27th match, Bayern will play against Dortmund. As you said, Dortmund is also a strong team in the Bundesliga. Moreover, Dortmund also qualified for the quarter-final of UCL, so this will also be a place to prove the strength between these two clubs. Although they will not play against each other in that QF match.

For this match, we can see from the Head-to-Head:

Source: Bayern München vs Borussia Dortmund

So far, Bayern has far more winning experiences than Dortmund, both at home and away. And so far, in the Bundesliga, Bayern Munich has been also doing better than Dortmund, well, even though Bayern is not as optimal and consistent as last season, in my opinion, Bayern is still so far more significant than Dortmund. But, it'll be an interesting match because both of them are also in their efforts to provide a good performance. What is certain is that whoever wins, it will not be easy.

I agree that Borussia Dortmund is a strong team in the Bundesliga, but Bayern Munich always beats Borussia Dortmund easily in the league. This season, Bayern Munich is the favorite to win against Borussia Dortmund when they play their second match in the Bundesliga.

[Mame89]

Bayern’s Uli Hoeness gives significant update on Liverpool’s pursuit of Xabi Alonso

The future of Bayer Leverkusen manager, Xabi Alonso, has been the subject of much discussion of late, and now Uli Hoeness, Bayern Munich’s honorary president, has given a definitive update concerning the former Bayern, Liverpool and Real Madrid ace.

Alonso’s stock has certainly risen this season given that his Leverkusen team have been playing some of the best football seen across Europe and they currently remain unbeaten.

Having never won the Bundesliga in their history, Alonso now has Leverkusen on the verge of a maiden German top-flight title.

Source: https://www.caughtoffside.com/2024/03/21/significant-update-liverpool-xabi-alonso/

Of course, with his success in bringing Leverkusen to where it is today, many clubs are interested in Xabi Alanso's services, he has even managed to set Leverkusen's record as an undefeated team in the Bundesliga and in just a few more matches he will set another new record by giving Leverkusen the Bundelisga trophy. for the first time. So I'm not surprised that many big clubs want his services.

What I applaud about Xabi Alonso is his really thorough preparation, you can imagine that he has started building up his hopes of becoming a coach, starting from the time he chose to join Bayern Munich under Pep Guardiola at that time. And the reason he wanted to join Bayern was none other than because he wanted to learn directly from the best coach from Spain.

And after that he didn't immediately train a big team but started from zero again by coaching the Real Madrid youth team. And this is his most vital decision, he prefers to coach a mediocre German club, namely Leverkusen, while his friends are happy that he prefers to coach at a big club. Even though on his way to that level he was often tempted to train Real Madrid as Ancelotti's successor, he remained consistent and wanted to continue to mature his abilities until they were truly worthy if Real Madrid needed him in the future.

His patience and consistency are rare for young coaches in this era. He really started from zero with Leverkusen, and honed and proved his abilities there. His planning, tactics, intuition and instincts were already on a different level to Xabi's too.

[bering]

Bayern Munich vs Borussia Dortmund is one of the derby matches in the Bundesliga, and they will play next week. This will be an interesting match, because in every meeting they play the game is always heated, especially the Borussia Dortmund supporters who don't like Bayern Munich, because they think that Bayern Munich always takes over the star players that Borussia Dortmund has. If we look at it, Borussia Dortmund itself is the one who always sells the valuable players they have.

Borussia Dortmund this season is not as good as last season, so this could be an opportunity for Bayern Munich to beat their guests. However, that doesn't mean they will be able to get it easily, because BOrussia Dortmund themselves will definitely do their best to achieve the best results in this match. What is clear is that they did not come to taste defeat, but they came to steal points from Bayern Munich headquarters. Borussia Dortmund's chances are not much greater than Bayern Munich's, but they are still dangerous.

The rivality between both teams always be interested to discuss because in the last 10 season in Bundesliga Dortmund and Bayern Munich always be fight for the title even last season Dortmund almost became an Bundesliga champion but unfortunately in the last match against Mainz Dortmund was unable to win and only playing draw and this result is make Dortmund has same points with Bayern Munich at that time but they lost from head to head statistics which makes Dortmund have to finish at runner up place and i can see Dortmund players was very dissapoint to this results

I thought Dortmund can able to performing well again just like when they showed last season but losing Bellingham is greatly affect to Dortmund performance because although Dortmund was attempts to bought the players as the replacement of Bellingham but those players were unable to displayed good performance and this season Dortmund realistic target is only secured Champion League zone because impossible for them to joining with Bayern Munich and Leverkusen for race title

Actually i want to see Dortmund beat Bayern Munich but seems it is a bit hard to happened because Dortmund performance is really unstable this season besides that Bayern Munich seems already found their shape again after several times poor results moreover from head to head statistics too Dortmund has poor records from Bayern Munich so this makes me doubt Dortmund will be able to beat Bayern Munich even my prediction is Bayern Munich will being an the winner of this match

[klidex]

Some seem to be suggesting that the 10 point gap between Leverkusen and Bayern is due to Bayern having a weaker season and not playing as good as in the past years, when they won the league.
That's not quite true. Bayern's average points per game this season is 2.31, meaning that, if their performance remain consistent, they should expect to have 78-79 points at the end of the season.
In comparison, last year they've won with 71 points, the year before with 77 points.
In conclusion - Bayern is not underperforming (at least so far), it's just the Leverkusen is that good.

Actually, I also don't think Bayern Munich's performance is completely bad, it's just that Leverkusen's performance is still consistent and they haven't suffered a defeat, making the gap with Bayern Munich wide. Bayern Munich can't play football like that because it's very difficult for any club to play many matches and remain consistent in winning and not experiencing defeat. However, this season is not over yet, we also don't know what will happen in the future, whether Leverkusen will still consistently win or will experience setbacks and suffer consecutive defeats and that could be an opportunity for Bayern Munich to overtake, but I don't think Xabi Alonso will let that happen. This happened because he had worked hard since the start of the season to achieve victory after victory to get the Bundesliga trophy with Leverkusen.

In conclusion, overall Bayern Munich's performance is still the same as before and has not experienced any setbacks, but because the chances of getting the title are very small, Bayern Munich can focus more on the Champions League and win the title there if they are able to beat Arsenal and get through the semifinals and face off in the final, who knows? with Manchester City or Real Madrid, we don't know yet, but what is clear is that Bayern Munich must be ready to face tougher challenges.

[len01]

These two teams have always attracted all Bundesliga football fans because the tension in the games between these two teams is always quite heated, therefore this match may be quite difficult to predict who will be the winner. Why do I say that because Bayern Munich lately they haven't shown good enough concentration in the Bundesliga so it's possible that Dortmund can beat them. The opportunity that Dortmund has is quite small considering that Bayern munich is playing at home, automatically they are quite strong because they have great support from their supporters.

we shouldn't see the badness of big teams drag on too long and in my opinion you really doubt Bayern Munich when they face Dortmund.
you have to believe that Munich has returned to its previous form and you also have to see the success of Bayern Munich being able to score big and even qualify for the quarter finals in the UCL and that means there is no chance for Dortmund to beat Munich.
I can't give you the exact reason but I will prove betting on Bayern Munich winning and surely what I say will come true.
It may seem too enthusiastic, but in fact the depth of Bayern Munich squad is much greater.

[Google+]

I agree that Borussia Dortmund is a strong team in the Bundesliga, but Bayern Munich always beats Borussia Dortmund easily in the league. This season, Bayern Munich is the favorite to win against Borussia Dortmund when they play their second match in the Bundesliga.

So far we have always heard of Dortmund who have always been Munich contenders for the Bundesliga title before Leverkusen appeared, even I think Dortmund is still a pretty strong team even though they sell their star players every season, even with the continued loss of its main players but Dortmund is still able to compete in the Champions League and even the Champions League zone this season in the Bundesliga,  I personally honestly never want to underestimate Dortmund even though they will face Bayern Munich later.

 The two have a history of high rivalry and even the match titled classics often presents high-intensity matches, in the first match of the season, Dortmund had to get a defeat to Munich, but I think so far the performance and quality of the squad owned by Dortmund has improved drastically, so I think Dortmund will be able to avenge the defeat,  In addition, Dortmond's 4 consecutive wins in all competitions will certainly increase the confidence of Dortmund players to destroy Munich later, indeed so far Munich has also begun to return to a positive path but I see if Munich has not been able to find their best game at this time.

[Velvet78]

Stuttgart are in a great form recently and Guirassy's performance improvement also plays an important role in that.    He is back in solid shape again considering that he scored 5 goals in his last 5 games. His number of goals is 22 now in the league. It isn't easy to compete against Kane to be top scorer maybe but Guirassy has already attracted the attention of bigger teams.

I believe Stuttgart will manage to qualify for the Champions League group stage, what is your opinion? I know there is a good progress in Dortmund and Leipzig's form recently as well but a gap of six points is a really good advantage for Stuttgart to make it. 

[hyudien]

These two teams have always attracted all Bundesliga football fans because the tension in the games between these two teams is always quite heated, therefore this match may be quite difficult to predict who will be the winner. Why do I say that because Bayern Munich lately they haven't shown good enough concentration in the Bundesliga so it's possible that Dortmund can beat them. The opportunity that Dortmund has is quite small considering that Bayern munich is playing at home, automatically they are quite strong because they have great support from their supporters.

we shouldn't see the badness of big teams drag on too long and in my opinion you really doubt Bayern Munich when they face Dortmund.
you have to believe that Munich has returned to its previous form and you also have to see the success of Bayern Munich being able to score big and even qualify for the quarter finals in the UCL and that means there is no chance for Dortmund to beat Munich.
I can't give you the exact reason but I will prove betting on Bayern Munich winning and surely what I say will come true.
It may seem too enthusiastic, but in fact the depth of Bayern Munich squad is much greater.

Yes, it is true that the depth of the squad owned by Bayern Munich can be said to be better than Borussia Dortmund, because Borussia Dortmund themselves always release very influential players in their team, which is what makes them have to re-arrange their strategy every season because they have to look for new players who can replace the position of a player who leaves. We can see this almost every season at Borussia Dortmund.
Obviously I don't doubt Bayern Munich, because in fact they are also playing normally like the previous season, but the only difference is that Leverkusen is performing extraordinary, so it makes Bayern Munich look like they are not performing like the previous season, even though in fact they are still playing as usual.
In this match, of course it will be an interesting match for us to watch, because every time they meet they will show a heated match because they want to beat each other. A hot atmosphere is always created in big matches like this, and we know that this is one of the biggest matches in the Bundesliga.

[Roseline492]

I believe Stuttgart will manage to qualify for the Champions League group stage, what is your opinion? I know there is a good progress in Dortmund and Leipzig's form recently as well but a gap of six points is a really good advantage for Stuttgart to make it. 

I agree with you because Stuttgart has been very impressive at this middle of the season because there record lately is very commendable Whereas there last six matches has been so favourable for them because they were able to win five matches and draw just one match which shows that they are in a good shape and like you said there points difference with Borussia Dortmund and RB Leipzig is quite much because it will take time for Borussia Dortmund to get to the same points with Stuttgart because checking the matches Stuttgart will play they will have an advantage of wining most of the matches, so for now is actually possible that Stuttgart will qualify for the champions League next season.

[Blitzboy]

Bayern Munich vs Borussia Dortmund is one of the derby matches in the Bundesliga, and they will play next week. This will be an interesting match, because in every meeting they play the game is always heated, especially the Borussia Dortmund supporters who don't like Bayern Munich, because they think that Bayern Munich always takes over the star players that Borussia Dortmund has. If we look at it, Borussia Dortmund itself is the one who always sells the valuable players they have.

Borussia Dortmund this season is not as good as last season, so this could be an opportunity for Bayern Munich to beat their guests. However, that doesn't mean they will be able to get it easily, because BOrussia Dortmund themselves will definitely do their best to achieve the best results in this match. What is clear is that they did not come to taste defeat, but they came to steal points from Bayern Munich headquarters. Borussia Dortmund's chances are not much greater than Bayern Munich's, but they are still dangerous.

Bayern vs. Dortmund is Germany's and possibly Europe's best rivalry. Guaranteed fireworks from these guys.  This team always plays aggressively, so betting against goals would be foolish. Everyone knows Bayern has history, but Dortmund has that scrappy underdog spirit. Its impossible to dislike such hustle.

I'll confess, this Bundesliga season isnt exciting at the top. Both teams had better times. Honestly, its disappointing. But classics are classics. This game's vibe is unique. Also, isnt football beautiful? Dortmund's usually surprising; they may pull something out of the hat this time. You risk underestimating them.