Dortmund vs Bayern Munich prediction: GERMANY: Bundesliga betting tips on match 2023-11-03 17:30.
Eyeballs across Europe will turn to Signal Iduna Park for the Bundesliga’s primetime game as Borussia Dortmund welcome their great foes Bayern Munich for the 134th edition of Der Klassiker (BOR: W32, D35, L66). With minds refocused after picking up just a point against Bayern last season on the way to losing out on the title on the final day, Dortmund now have the opportunity to leapfrog the perennial title winners with victory.
It was a frustrating Sunday afternoon for Dortmund in the previous round as they had to come back from 2-0 and 3-2 down against Frankfurt just to claim a draw. Even so, that remarkable ability to bounce back from adversity sees them as one of just two sides yet to lose after going behind in league action this season (W2, D2), a pertinent quality indeed considering they had to claw back a 2-0 deficit to draw in this corresponding fixture last season.
It’s not often that this fixture rolls around without one or the other being top of the tree, but Bayern are making a good go of hunting table-topping Leverkusen down with their solid nine-game unbeaten Bundesliga start (W7, D2). They capped that run off with the biggest win of the round, an 8-0 win over Darmstadt in which Harry Kane scored his second Bundesliga hat-trick!
Only the brave would bet against Bayern here as the Bavarians have picked up 16 of the last 18 available away points (W5, D1), despite keeping just one clean sheet and falling behind twice during that sequence. This game could foreseeably follow a similar route as whilst the side scoring first has won just once across the last four away Bundesliga H2Hs, Bayern didn’t lose any of them (W3, D1).
Players to watch: Two Der Klassiker debutants are set to take centre-stage here as the Bundesliga golden-boot holder Niclas Füllkrug enters on the back of five goal contributions in his last six appearances for club & country (G3, A2). Arguably the biggest threat to his top-scorer accolade is Harry Kane, who has averaged a goal every 66 minutes for Bayern this season and has contributed to 17 of their 34 league goals, a Bundesliga record for any team at this stage.
Hot stat: Last weekend, Bayern became the first team in Bundesliga history to score 34 goals after nine rounds.