The 13th round of the Bundesliga started already tonight (Friday) when Stuttgart achieved a 1: 2 victory over Mainz and interrupted the streak of games without a win. On Saturday, Bayern Munich will host Arminia Bielefeld, the disappointing Borussia Dortmund will host Wolfsburg, Hoffenheim will meet Greater Firth the weak and Cologne will have a fiery derby as FCC. The local will host Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Bayern Munich – Arminia Bielefeld (19:30, Sport 3)
The champions managed to beat Dynamo Kiev 1: 2 away on Tuesday and maintained a perfect balance in the Champions League and thus also recovered from the league loss to Augsburg last round, which narrowed Dortmund’s gap from it to just one point. Bayern Munich will once again be missing all the unvaccinated / infected in Corona: Yuzua Kimish, Eric Maxim Shofo Mouting, Mikael Quizens, Yuzua Kimish, Serge Gnabri and Jamal Musiala as the latter two have already been vaccinated for the first time this week and are expected to return soon. Nicklas Zola is back in training and will return to the squad and Yosif Stanisic should also be eligible. Bayern first with 28 points and hope to widen the gap before the game against Borussia Dortmund.
Wolfsburg – Borussia Dortmund (16:30)
The yellow-blacks looked very bad, lost 3-1 to Sporting Lisbon and were disgracedly disqualified from the Champions League on Wednesday. Now they will try to pick up the pieces to at least stay close to Bayern Munich in the table and temporarily climb to the top even. They will be hosted by Wolfsburg, who may have lost to Sevilla on Wednesday, but have been on a positive trend since the appointment of Florian Kohfeldt and have scored seven points from the last nine in the league. Dortmund love to play in Wolfsburg and have won there in their last six visits.
Team coach Marco Rosa surprised when he announced that Arling Holland “will be with the team on the bus to Wolfsburg”. The Norwegian star, who has been absent recently, may return long before the predictions, and Rosa said he “feels good, but at most he will play a few minutes”. The Netherlands have not played since October 19, and in that time he has seen the Norwegian team lose a chance to qualify for the World Cup and his team is relegated from the Champions League already in the home stage. Anyway, his return is in excellent line-up for the team a week before the classic against Bayern Munich. Those who will continue to be absent are Rafael Greiro, Thurgan Hazar, Yusufa Mokoku and Jiu Reina.
Groeter Firth – Hoffenheim (16:30, Sport 3)
Mons Dabour started in the lineup and even scored in the last round against R.B. Leipzig and the Blues in general are in a good period and have won three of the last five league games, but away they have not won since their first away game. Now Hoffenheim and Dabour have a chance to record their second away win of the season when they host the weakest team in the league, which has so far scored one point and seems to be on the safe path back to the sub-league.
Stuttgart – Mainz 1: 2
The host breaks a streak of three losses and five games without a win with three points that are like breathable air for her. The Japanese green Ito put Stuttgart ahead in the 21st minute from Belgian Ural Mengele’s shot, but Alexander Hack equalized for Mainz, six minutes before the break. Borna Sosa returned the advantage to Stuttgart when Mengele completed a second cooking of the game. In the 75th minute, the guest coach Bo Swanson made a square substitution, but even that did not help the guest get at least one point. Stuttgart temporarily climbs to 13th place.
More games (Saturday, 4:30 p.m.):
Bochum – Freiburg
Hertha Berlin – Augsburg
On Sunday Eintracht Frankfurt will host Union Berlin, R.B. Leipzig and Bayer Leverkusen.