Our prediction for this Bundesliga match:
Red Bull Arena will be the center of attention when Leipzig and Bayern Munich square off against each other in the Bundesliga derby. The Red Bulls are eyeing their fifth consecutive league win, but they will have a big fish to fry against the reigning champions. Timo Werner, who scored the winner against Borussia M’gladbach, is pushing for a start, while all Willi Orban, Dani Olmo, and Amadou Haidara remain on the sidelines with injuries.
The Bavarians, on the other hand, produced a splendid display in a 7-0 crushing of Bochum, with summer signing Harry Kane scoring a hat-trick and given their attacking potential, over 2.5 goals betting option should be considered. Centre-back Matthijs de Ligt has joined the likes of Manuel Neuer, Raphael Guerreiro, and Gabriel Marusic in the recovery room. Fellow defender Dayot Upamecano is widely expected to replace de Ligt in the starting line-up.
Highlighted Player (Thomas Muller):
Thomas Muller is pacey attacker who plays for Bayern Munich and German national team. Muller is a product of Bayern Munich’s youth academy and he played 35 games for the reserve team, scoring 16 goals in the process.
The German striker, who is capable of producing fine performances as a winger as well, won the Champions League trophy with Bayern Munich in 2013 as the mighty Bavarians defeated fellow Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund in the final of the elite competition. Muller clinched the FIFA World Cup trophy with Germany in 2014, while making it to the European Championship final in 2012. It has to be noted that he won the FIFA World Cup Golden Boot in 2010.
Thomas Muller has a contract with Bayern Munich which expires on 30 June, 2021. The German footballer, who was born in Weilheim in Oberbayern on 13 September, 1989, won his fifth Bundesliga trophy with Bayern Munich in the 2015/2016 season.
Highlighted Team (Leipzig):
Leipzig are a professional football club founded in 2009. Die Bullen (The Bulls) were unbeaten in the 2012/2013 Regionalliga Nordost and, as a result, they secured promotion to the 3. Liga. After finishing the 2013/2014 as 3rd. Liga campaign in second place in the standings, Leipzig were promoted to the 2. Bundesliga and they competed in the German second tier for two seasons.
Despite suffering a loss to Karlsruher on the last day of the 2015/2016 round in the 2. Bundesliga campaign, die Bullen secured promotion to the Bundesliga for the first time ever. Leipzig play their home games at Red Bull Arena (42,959) and it has to be noted that the stadium was opened in 1954.
Die Bullen wear white shirts and red shorts while their away kit is blue and yellow. Ralph Hasenhuttl was appointed as the team’s manager at the end of the 2015/2016 season and you should know that the likes of Ralf Rangnick, Achim Beierlorzer, Alexander Zorniger, Peter Pacult, Tomas Oral and Tino Vogel were in charge of the team in the past as well.