Bayern Munich vs Union Berlin prediction: GERMANY: Bundesliga betting tips on match 2023-12-01 14:30.
Two sides at the complete opposite ends of the Bundesliga standings meet this weekend, as Bayern Munich look to overhaul league leaders Bayer Leverkusen by winning their seventh consecutive German top-flight outing. Thomas Tuchel’s side did come unstuck at home to Copenhagen in midweek Champions League action, failing to score in a 0-0 stalemate, but with 28 goals netted across their six prior competitive home matches, it'd take a brave person to bet on them to go goalless again in this outing.
If it weren’t for Xabi Alonso and his in-form Leverkusen side, Bayern would sit top after 12 rounds as they continue to enjoy their joint-third-best start to a Bundesliga campaign in club history (W10, D2). The hosts will also feel confident in extending that unbeaten run even further here against Union Berlin, as they’ve never lost a Bundesliga H2H (W5, D2) and they remarkably remain undefeated across their prior 53 meetings with sides who have come into the said matches sat in the bottom two spots!
Visiting Union Berlin arrive at the Allianz Arena after drawing 1-1 on the road with Braga in the Champions League, a result that both eliminated them from knockout round contention in the competition, as well as extended their winless run across all competitions to 16 matches! Manager Urs Fischer – who oversaw the club’s dramatic rise to fourth spot last season – has since departed, with new boss Nenad Bjelica taking charge in midweek for the first time.
The Croatian manager will now look to target a route to survival this season, as Union sit second-bottom of the standings heading into this round. Success in Munich will be hard to come by however, as a glance at the visitors away form of late paints a bleak picture of five straight defeats on the road for the Iron Ones in the league, failing to score in three of their prior four.
Players to watch: Bayern’s Kingsley Coman has netted three goals across the last four H2Hs, whilst he’s still never lost when scoring for the Bavarian giants (W53, D3). Robin Gosens is Union’s joint-top league scorer this season (G4) and he netted for the visitors in midweek UCL action.
Hot stat: Bayern have scored in each of their last 63 Bundesliga home matches and sit just one more match short of the all-time competition record (64) set by the club between 1970-74.