Bayern Munich have the best away record in the league picking up 16 points from a possible 18 in away games so far. However, they travel to a Borussia Dortmund side that have the best home record in the league this season with a perfect 6 wins out of 6 on their home turf.
This week in the Champions League, Dortmund picked up a convincing 3-0 victory away against Dinamo Zagreb. Jamie Gittens, Ramy Bensebaini, and Serhou Guriassy scored for the German side.
For Bayern on the other hand they grabbed a narrow victory at the Allianz Arena with Kim Min-jae scoring the only goal in their 1-0 win.
Last time in league action Dortmund fired four goals past Freiburg in another big win to continue their brilliant home run.
The away side has yet to lose a game in the Bundesliga this season and hasn’t conceded a goal in their past seven games in all competitions last conceding to Barcelona over a month ago.
Head2Head
The sides last met in March where it was a 2-0 victory for Dortmund with Karim Adeyemi and Julian Ryerson scoring the goals.
When Bayern last won this fixture they did it convincingly with a 4-0 win in November of 2023 where Dayot Upamecano scored one goal and Harry Kane grabbed a hattrick.
In all competitions, they have met each other 135 times with 69 wins for Bayern Munich and 35 wins for Borussia Dortmund and 31 draws between the sides.
And in these games, there has been a total of 460 goals in which Bayern have scored 278 and Dortmund scored 182.
They first met in the 1965/96 season, in which Dortmund won 2-0 with two goals from Reinhold Wosab.
Team News
Both sides might be forced into changes and a rotation of their starting lineups after they both played in the Champions League in midweek.
Dortmund will be boosted by the return of Niklas Süle with the center-back coming back following an ankle injury.
However, despite the boost of having Süle back the home side will still be missing forward Adeyemi since he picked up a thigh injury and has missed the past 10 games.
Emre Can will serve the second of his two-match suspension against his former club after he was sent off in Dortmund’s 3-1 loss against Mainz.
Another possible player that might be missing is German midfielder Julian Brandt with him being substituted in the midweek game against Zagreb.
There was also illness in the camp this week with Serhou Guirassy rested in the Zagreb game after he was ruled out in their game against Freiburg at short notice.
Nuri Şahin likes his side to lineup in a 4-2-3-1 formation or a 4-3-3 formation.
Bayern are suffering with several injury issues which could massively affect the team selection for this game against their rivals.
Summer signing Hiroki Ito has had to have surgery on his Metatarsal an injury that has kept him out since July. This is the second operation that he has had to have since picking up the injury.
Another player who joined in the summer is Sacha Boey who returned to training earlier this month and could be set to feature in this game after making the bench in the last couple of games.
Portuguese player João Palhinha came off after just 9 minutes against St. Pauli and went on to join the national team where he suffered a torn muscle whilst training on international break. He has since not played and is expected to be missing until after the winter break.
Bayern also line up in a similar shape and formation to Dortmund with either the 4-2-3-1 or the 4-3-3 formation used.
Predicted Line-Ups
Borussia Dortmund : Kobel, Ryerson, Schlotterbeck, Anton, Bensebaini, Sabitzer, Nmecha, Gross, Gittens, Beier, Malen
Bayern Munich: Neuer, Boey, Upamecano, Kim, Davies, Goretzka, Kimmich, Coman, Musiala, Sane, Kane
Players to watch
Borussia Dortmund - Jamie Gittens
At 20 years old Gittens has been in fine form for Dortmund this season, particularly in the Champions League where he has scored four goals in the five games they have played so far in the new league format.
Gittens was in the youth academy at both Chelsea and Manchester City but made the move to Germany in 2020.
After impressing in performances for the youth side most notably in the UEFA Youth League in the 2021-22 season he managed to get called up to the first-team squad and made his debut in a 6-1 victory over Wolfsburg in April 2022.
Last season was his first season where he played a full season without getting any injury issues and has since gone onto be a key player for Die Schwarzgelben.
On the international stage, he has in 4 years gone from playing for England’s U15 to England’s U21 where he has made 11 appearances since making his debut in 2023 and scored.
He helped England’s U19s win the European Championship in 2022.
Bayern Munich - Kim Min-Jae
It’s hard not to look at Bayern at the minute and pick one of their incredible defenders as a player to watch with seven clean sheets in a row.
Kim played in all of those games and has been a key player as a center-back in Vincent Kompany’s Bayern side.
The 6ft3 defender played a crucial part in the side’s win over PSG in the week with a powerful header helping secure victory over the French side.
He joined Napoli from Fenerbahce in 2022 with the plan to come in and be Kalidou Koulibaly’s replacement and he started the season on fine form getting the Serie A Player of the Month award in September.
With Napoli, he was an integral part of the side that won Napoli the Serie A title in the 2022-23 season and was named as the best Serie A defender of the season.
This earned him a move to Bayern which made him the most expensive Asian footballer in history with his €58 million release clause being met.
How to watch the game
The Bundesliga match between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich takes place on Saturday, November 30th 2024. The match will kick off at 12:30 ET / 09:30 PT and is available to watch on USA Network and NBC.
