Bayern receiving Schalke, BVB meet HSV
This weekend´s headliner will be the encounter of FC Bayern and Schalke 04 on Saturday night. Earlier that day Dortmund will be able to take revenge for the loss in first leg against HSV. Bayer Leverkusen will face Gladbach and Bremen will travel to Stuttgart.
Most teams would be happy to let them play for 90 minutes, in Munich just second choice at the moment: (from left) Robben, Gustavo, Pizarro, Tymoschtschuk, Van Buyten.
FC Bayern Munich are showing a very dominant performance in German Bundesliga at the moment leading the pack by twelve points. This Saturday FC Schalke 04 will travel to Munich trying to regain some confidence they most certainly have lost over the last couple of weeks. S04 only managed to get six points out of the last nine games.
Earlier on Saturday Borussia Dortmund will be having an opportunity to take revenge on Hamburger SV. On matchday four HSV broke BVB´s series of unbeaten games by winning their home game against Dortmund. But on foreign grounds HSV played pretty weak for most of the season and Dortmund is the best German team of 2013 when it comes to points and goals scored.
Bremen visiting Stuttgart
Werder Bremen and VfB Stuttgart will meet at the same time in Stuttgart. Both teams played below their capabilities over the last couple of weeks. Stuttgart have lost all last four games while Bremen had been not winning for four games up to last week´s victory over Hanover.
Eintracht Frankfurt stabilized their fourth position in chart last week by defeating HSV. This weekend they will face 1.FC Nuremberg, a team that beat Moenchengladbach last week but has not won a single game on foreign grounds for eight matches.
Leverkusen in Gladbach
When Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Borussia Moenchengladbach meet on Saturday it will be the encounter of two teams with recently ended runs. Gladbach were overall nine games unbeaten up to the defeat against Nuremberg and Leverkusen´s loss on home turf against Dortmund last week was the first of its kind for the two coaches Lewandowski and Hyypiae since they started in Leverkusen last campaign.
More games on Saturday will be taking place between Hanover 96 and TSG 1899 Hoffenheim as well as between Greuther Fuerth and VFL Wolfsburg. On Sunday FC Augsburg and Mainz 05 will kick off the play in the afternoon and SC Freiburg and Fortuna Duesseldorf will go at it afterwards.
