The 31st round of the Bundesliga kicked off today (Friday) when Wolfsburg crushed the unfortunate Mainz 0-5. On Saturday, Bayern Munich can secure a tenth consecutive championship if they beat Borussia Dortmund at home, while a draw will also practically guarantee them the title. At the same time R.B. Leipzig and Union Berlin will meet in the rematch of the Cup semi-final. Berkusen and Freiburg, who are battling for fourth place, will also be active. If Leverkusen do not lose, Groiter Firth will officially relegate.
Bayern Munich – Borussia Dortmund (Saturday, 19:30, Sport1)
The yellow-blacks surely want to avoid the Bayern Munich championship celebrations on their head and in order to postpone Julian Naglesman’s team the celebrations for at least a week, they will have to avoid a loss in Munich. It will be the 133rd meeting between the two teams as Bayern want their 31st title and tenth in a row. The incoming champion has beaten Dortmund in each of the last seven home games with six of them scoring at least four goals. Dortmund come after a 1-6 win over Wolfsburg and one loss in their last nine games in all competitions, but remember the last time they won in Munich in the league was somewhere in April 2014.
Bayern will be missing three of its Frenchmen: Kingsley Coman, Lucas Hernandez and Corentin Tolisso, while in Dortmund the list is endless and includes Mahmoud Dahoud, Mats Hummels, Thomas Monier goalkeeper Gregor Kovel, Donnall Mullen, Stefan Tiggs, Gio Reina and Axel Witsalen as Marius in doubt.
Nicklas Zola, who will move from Bayern to Dortmund in the summer, is expected to start in the squad and Dortmund coach Marco Rosa said of him: “Everyone knows he will join us in the summer, but we have managed to ignore it in recent months. He said he wants to leave Munich after success there. “Can win the championship and play to do it, we want to prevent it from happening, that’s our goal. We played a good game last week and we’ll have to be at our peak this time.”
Julian Naglesman said: “Zola makes a good impression and may start in the squad. It is a special game for him, but he has already said he will give his all for Bayern until the last minute and I expect a good performance from him.” On his conclusions from this season, the young coach said: “Obviously we are looking at everything at the end of the season. We will change some things, but I am not going to change my whole style. Next season I will try to improve things that did not work properly.”
multi. Leipzig – Union Berlin (Saturday, 16:30)
Only on Wednesday did the two meet in the Cup semi-final with the Bulls winning 1: 2 from a goal by Emil Forsberg in extra time. multi. Leipzig, who broke their crowd record in a home game in that game, are in great shape with three league wins in a row, promotion to the Europa League semi-finals and of course a place in the Cup final. She wants to achieve a fourth consecutive league win to come very close to securing a place in the Champions League next season after a season stuttering in a very stuttering way. Union Berlin, which is in a great season for it, is fighting for a place in Europe next season as well.
More games (Saturday, 4:30 p.m.):
Eintracht Frankfurt – Hoffenheim
F.C. Cologne – Arminia Bielefeld
Freiburg – Borussia Mönchengladbach
Groyer Firth – Bayer Leverkusen
Wolfsburg – Mainz 0: 5
In the previous round in the Bundesliga Wolfsburg were humiliated with 6: 1 against Borussia Dortmund and got entangled at the bottom. Tonight she took out all the nerves at the expense of the unfortunate Mainz, who had absorbed a quintet from her even before the break. The Danish Jonas Wind opened the scoring in the eighth minute and then Max Cruza’s play began. The German striker set up 0: 2 on penalties (24), added a double (35) and completed a hat-trick in extra time of the half, three minutes after Wind had made it 0: 4. Mainz’s collapse began after its brake Nicklas Tau was sent off in the 23rd minute. By the way, Crossa is the first Wolfsburg player to score a hat-trick in the first half. In the second half, the Wolfsburg players downshifted and the result remained the same.
On the first Bochum will host Augsburg, Hertha Berlin will host Stuttgart.