By
Paul Attfield
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Soccer
– January 22, 2021, 7:32 a.m. PST
Despite a few surprising defeats this season, the nine-time defending champions Bayern Munich are four points ahead of the top of the Bundesliga, and a competition on the 18th matchday of the Bundesliga against Schalke 04 Having won just one of his last 33 Bundesliga games, they are unlikely to slow their coronation.
However, below Bayern is where the real excitement takes place, with fierce battles for the remaining spots in the Champions League taking place . Only two points separate the fourth-placed Borussia Dortmund from eighth-placed Eintracht Frankfurt. Both teams are playing in remarkable games this weekend.
Borussia Mönchengladbach are unbeaten in five games in all competitions, including the memorable 3-2 win against Bayern Munich a few weeks ago – only the second Bundesliga defeat of the champions this season.
Only one point separates Gladbach’s seventh place from fourth-placed Borussia Dortmund, who lost on matchday 18 in Leverkusen on Tuesday after the draw against Mainz, to see that a possible title challenge could be as well as has passed. The two will meet on Friday, January 22nd at 2:30 p.m. EST.
Gladbach will be back with the return of striker Marcus Thuram, who is returning after a six-game suspension and possibly starting alongside captain Lars Stindl, who is with nine goals and four assists the team’s leading scorer is to get another boost. However, he lost 17 of the 19 games he played against Dortmund.
Worse still, Gladbach lost the last 11 games against Dortmund in the « Battle of Borussias » – including a 3-0 defeat at Dortmund Park at the beginning of this season. You also have to watch out for the former foal Marco Reus, as the Dortmund captain has scored nine goals and six assists in 13 games against his old club.
But Dortmund also needs more from striker Erling Haaland to be their youngest To change fate. The Norwegian winner of the UEFA Golden Boy Award for best young player in Europe has only scored one goal in his last five Bundesliga games. However, he has two goals and an assist in two career games against Gladbach.
Arminia Bielefeld is on a role. Accumulated 10 of the last 15 available points. The 3-0 win against VfB Stuttgart on Wednesday was the biggest of the season so far. Their run of three games without a defeat is the longest of the season and the longest in the German top division since 2009.
The reigning Bundesliga 2 champions will be out against Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday, January 23rd have to, but on the 18th Bundesliga matchday. Frankfurt is currently eighth in the table and has suffered two defeats in the Bundesliga this season while managing a league – a high of nine draws. However, Bielefeld is the only team that still draws at home this season.
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Frankfurt talisman Luka Jovic has wasted little time since his return from Real Madrid a few weeks ago and scored two goals in the 3-1 win against Schalke last Sunday, before he went off the bench in the 2-2 draw against Freiburg on Wednesday. Jovic scored 36 goals in his first term.
And Frankfurt is further strengthened by his record against Bielefeld. Eintracht has 11 wins, 10 draws and only six defeats in 27 all-time meetings in the German top division.
Before the game on Saturday’s 18th Bundesliga matchday between third-placed Bayer Leverkusen and fifth VfL Wolfsburg, two fall statistical anomalies.
The first is that Leverkusen haven’t lost any of the seven games in which striker Lucas Alario started with six wins and one draw. The Argentine scored six goals during this period.
The second is that Leverkusen has not beaten Wolfsburg at home since April 2016. Since then he has drawn two and lost two. In fact, neither of the two teams has beaten the other in nine consecutive encounters between the two teams.
But while Leverkusen joins this game on Tuesday after a 2-1 win against Borussia Dortmund and breaks a four-time winless run, Wolfsburg comes at a climax. The Wolves won 2-0 on Tuesday in Mainz, their third game in a row in which they scored two goals.
Paul Attfield has worked in sports media for the past 20 years. He started out in his native UK with the likes of The Independent and eventually switched continents. His work has since appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Yahoo Sports.
Paul Attfield has worked in sports media for the past 20 years. He started out in his native UK with the likes of The Independent and eventually switched continents. His work has since appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Yahoo Sports.
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