Bayern Munich vs Freiburg

Bayern Munich and Freiburg are set to lock horns at the Allianz Arena in a top-six Bundesliga six-pointer.

Bayern Munich’s action-packed 4-2 win at Viktoria Plzen in midweek Champions League action cemented their top spot in Group C, firing them into the competition’s knockout stages with two games to spare. If only things have gone as smoothly for Julian Nagelsmann’s side in the Bundesliga. After winning their opening three league outings in 2022/23, the perennial German champions have picked up just one triumph across their last six top-flight matches (D4, L1). A frustrating 2-2 draw in last weekend’s ‘Der Klassiker’ away to Borussia Dortmund added insult to injury amid Bayern’s worst Bundesliga start in 12 years. Pressure is mounting on Nagelsmann, who can draw confidence from his team’s eye-catching Bundesliga home record against Freiburg. The ‘Bavarians’ have never lost a top-flight H2H in Munich (W19, D3), so there’s a reason for optimism in Nagelsmann’s corner.

Meanwhile, visiting Freiburg swept Nantes aside with an overwhelming 4-0 win in midweek Europa League action to reach the competition’s knockouts with two matches to spare. Their stellar victory in France forms part of an illustrious 11-game unbeaten run across all competitions (W8, D3), with free-scoring ‘Breisgau-Brasilianer’ netting 2+ goals eight times during that stretch. Inspired by the club’s second-best nine-fixture Bundesliga start, Christian Streich’s men will be confident about defying the odds in Munich and maintaining the club-record seven-match unbeaten streak in the Bundesliga (W4, D3). But Freiburg will be all too aware they lost both last season’s league clashes against Bayern via an aggregate score of 6-2, meaning they’ve conceded 2+ goals in six consecutive league meetings with the Bavarian powerhouse.