On this evening in Germany, the most anticipated and intriguing Bundesliga match will take place - Dortmund's Borussia will host Bayern Munich at home. Recently, these teams have been in completely different moods, and before the German championship match starting at 19:30, we present you an overview of this match. Teams' form: After a strong start to the season, Borussia has recently fallen into a serious playing crisis. The team not only earned just one point in the last three Bundesliga matches but also has major defensive issues, conceding 9 goals in those matches. The Champions League tournament is also going very poorly for them as Dortmund not only lost to both main rivals but also failed to beat the group's underdog team APOEL twice in a row. Meanwhile, Bayern's season is completely different from their rivals - Bavarians started poorly but upon replacing coach Carlo Ancelotti with Jupp Heynckes, the team has regained the top position in the German championship. Under the new coach's guidance, the Munich team has won six consecutive matches in all tournaments. Teams' news: In these matches, four players will be missing for the hosts due to injuries - defenders Erik Durm and Lukasz Piszczek, as well as midfielders Sebastian Rode and Marco Reus. Borussia will also be without the suspended young defender Dan-Axel Zagadou, who received a red card in the last round. Bayern also has several absentees - goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, defenders Marco Bernat and Joshua Kimmich, and winger Franck Ribery are injured. The team will also be without the returning Thomas Muller, who is not yet ready to appear on the field. However, Kingsley Coman, who has recovered from a minor muscle injury, should be back for the club. Predicted starting lineups: Borussia: Burki; Bartra, Sokratis, Toprak, Schmelzer; Castro, Weigl, M. Gotze; Yarmolenko, Aubameyang, Philipp. Bayern: Ulreich; Rafinha, Boateng, Hummels, Alaba; Martinez, Rudy; Robben, Thiago, Coman; Lewandowski. Interesting facts: Since J. Heynckes's return to the team, Bayern is the only team in the Bundesliga not to have lost a single point in that period; After the tenth round, Borussia conceded the first place in the league, and their current opponents rose to the top; J. Heynckes became the first Bayern coach not to concede a goal in the first three matches of his coaching tenure; The last time J. Heynckes faced Borussia was in the victorious Champions League final of 2012-2013; Started the season with five clean sheets, Borussia has conceded 11 goals in the last five matches; With only one point in three matches, Borussia has recorded the worst streak in Germany since the 2014-2015 season; Since 2009, only Bayern (6 times) and Borussia (2 times) have won the Bundesliga trophy. In total, during this period, they won 14 out of 16 major trophies in the country; In Germany, J. Heynckes has not lost in 28 consecutive matches (24 wins, 4 draws). In the last 20 matches, he celebrated victory 19 times, and the only team that managed to play a draw with his Bayern during that time was Borussia; In the last six years, these teams have met 24 times; Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Robert Lewandowski have each scored 10 goals this season and share the top two places in the league's top scorers chart. Since 2013, these two players have scored a total of 202 goals in the Bundesliga (Lewandowski 107, Aubameyang 95).
