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| Borussia Dortmund v Bayern Munich: Bundesliga – live! | Borussia Dortmund v Bayern Munich: Bundesliga – live! |
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| 5.38pm BST17:38 | |
| 6 mins: Bayern will have expected Dortmund to start on the front foot, and the hosts have obliged, chasing down innumerable loose balls in the first five minutes. Reus almost picked out Slovenia’s Kampl, but the Bayern back three stepped up smartly. | |
| 5.37pm BST17:37 | |
| 4 mins: It’s Kuba again, wriggling into the area and coming under pressure from Dante. The Polish winger topples over, but referee Knut Kircher is unmoved. | |
| 5.36pm BST17:36 | |
| 3 min: Kuba, in his third match following an almost year-long injury break, is a little rusty, picking up the ball but delaying his pass to Sokratis, who had given up and wandered back to the halfway line. | |
| 5.34pm BST17:34 | |
| 1 min: A tenacious start, with Lahm getting involved to dispossess Bender in midfield. Kuba gets into space in the right corner, but Benatia moves across to deal with the threat. | |
| 5.32pm BST17:32 | |
| Peep! | |
| We’re off. Dortmund are playing left to right in yellow and black; Bayern are in their traditional (for this season) red and blue. | |
| 5.31pm BST17:31 | |
| 80,000+ in Dortmund’s Signal Iduna Park, with the renowned Yellow Wall holding up enormous posters depicting... their own stadium. Those quirky guys! They even do A4 signs better than us... | |
| 5.23pm BST17:23 | |
| So, Philipp Lahm returns for Bayern, who look set to line up in a dashing 3-5-2 formation, with Bernat and Rafinha as wing-backs, attempting to hit Dortmund on the counter-attack, thereby beating them at their own game. For once, Dortmund’s stars are fully assembled, with Hummels, Subotic, Kuba, Gündogan and Reus all present and correct. This should be decent. | |
| Updated at 5.25pm BST | |
| 5.09pm BST17:09 | |
| Team news | |
| Borussia Dortmund: Weidenfeller; Sokratis, Subotic, Hummels, Schmelzer; Gündogan, Bender, Kuba, Reus, Kampl; Aubameyang. | |
| Subs: Langerak, Dudziak, Ginter, Kehl, Mkhitaryan, Kagawa, Ramos. | |
| Bayern Munich: Neuer; Dante, Benatia, Boateng; Rafinha, Lahm, Alonso, Schweinsteiger, Bernat; Müller, Lewandowski. | |
| Subs: Reina; Thiago, Pizarro, Gaudino, Götze, Rode, Weiser. | |
| 4.32pm BST16:32 | 4.32pm BST16:32 |
| Preamble | Preamble |
| Football can throw up some peculiar rivalries. Take this one: Der Klassiker, on paper a battle between arguably the Bundesliga’s two strongest teams - currently and historically. There’s much more to it, though: the past twenty years in Germany’s top division have largely seen the Goliath of Bayern taken on, and sporadically beaten, by an array of plucky Davids. Werder Bremen, Wolfsburg, Stuttgart have all broken the Bayern strangehold, then made a hasty retreat. | Football can throw up some peculiar rivalries. Take this one: Der Klassiker, on paper a battle between arguably the Bundesliga’s two strongest teams - currently and historically. There’s much more to it, though: the past twenty years in Germany’s top division have largely seen the Goliath of Bayern taken on, and sporadically beaten, by an array of plucky Davids. Werder Bremen, Wolfsburg, Stuttgart have all broken the Bayern strangehold, then made a hasty retreat. |
| Dortmund are a little different, having collected five titles in the past two decades – although Bayern have managed 12. Less than two years ago, Dortmund took Bayern to the wire in the Champions League final. Only Goliath decided to buy David’s sling off him by signing up Mario Götze, who didn’t play in the game. A season later, with Dortmund still snapping at their heels, Bayern took Robert Lewandowski off their hands as well. | Dortmund are a little different, having collected five titles in the past two decades – although Bayern have managed 12. Less than two years ago, Dortmund took Bayern to the wire in the Champions League final. Only Goliath decided to buy David’s sling off him by signing up Mario Götze, who didn’t play in the game. A season later, with Dortmund still snapping at their heels, Bayern took Robert Lewandowski off their hands as well. |
| So, Bayern cruised into the distance with Dortmund’s best assets under their arm, while Jurgen Klopp’s team were cut adrift, spending the winter break rock bottom of the league, 30 points behind Bayern. Some rivalry. Except with these two, it’s never quite that simple. Dortmund have bounced back to within five points of Europe, and they host a Bayern team at their lowest ebb of the season (although that’s not saying much) - the champions are without Arjen Robben, Franck Ribery and David Alaba, among others, and lost their last home game to Borussia Moenchengladbach. | So, Bayern cruised into the distance with Dortmund’s best assets under their arm, while Jurgen Klopp’s team were cut adrift, spending the winter break rock bottom of the league, 30 points behind Bayern. Some rivalry. Except with these two, it’s never quite that simple. Dortmund have bounced back to within five points of Europe, and they host a Bayern team at their lowest ebb of the season (although that’s not saying much) - the champions are without Arjen Robben, Franck Ribery and David Alaba, among others, and lost their last home game to Borussia Moenchengladbach. |
| The key to this rivalry thriving where others have failed is Dortmund’s continued ability to beat Bayern, despite the aforementioned odds. Since 2010, Dortmund have won 8 Klassikers to Bayern’s 6. They may well do so again today, and would at least make the title race competitive. Then again, Bayern may well buy Marco Reus or Mats Hummels if they do. | The key to this rivalry thriving where others have failed is Dortmund’s continued ability to beat Bayern, despite the aforementioned odds. Since 2010, Dortmund have won 8 Klassikers to Bayern’s 6. They may well do so again today, and would at least make the title race competitive. Then again, Bayern may well buy Marco Reus or Mats Hummels if they do. |
| 4.32pm BST16:32 | 4.32pm BST16:32 |
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