Three classics on matchday three
Matchday three of German Bundesliga will be host to severall classic matchups with a lot of history. Leverkusen and Bremen will kick off the party on Friday night before FC Bayern Munich and VfB Stuttgart will meet on Saturday before Schalke and Gladbach will headline this matchday with the night match. Borussia Dortmund meanwhile will meet SC Freiburg while SC Paderborn and 1. FC Cologne – the two recently promoted teams – will go head to head.
The match between Schalke and Gladbach will headline matchday three.
Bayer 04 Leverkusen are the only team able to win both starting matches. Last matchday they had to come back twice after being one behind and won 4:2 in the end over Berlin. Their opponent this week, Werder Bremen, was behind in both matches so far and secured one point on both occasions. Their match will kick off the weekend on Friday night.
Saturday afternoon will see FC Bayern Munich receiving VfB Stuttgart for the South Derby. Stuttgart are one of ten teams with no victory to their name yet while FCB have four after their 1:1 draw with Schalke last matchday.
Borussia Dortmund will meet SC Freiburg where they will have to substitute Marco Reus and Kuba as they both will miss another four weeks at least. The two recently promoted teams, SC Paderborn and 1. FC Cologne, will encounter in a direct match this weekend and the night match will be this week´s headliner as Borussia Moenchengladbach and FC Schalke 04 will go head to head for the points.
North Derby on Sunday
The Sunday will also have two interesting matches to host. After Eintracht Frankfurt and FC Augsburg met during the afternoon Mirko Slomka will come back to his former working place with his new club Hamburger SV as they meet Hanover in the “North Derby”. After two struggling performances he already needs better results and is under pressure after the rather big investments his club made – HSV has spent the fourth most money this summer in Bundesliga.
