Wolfsburg’s defence-the second-most stingy in the Bundesliga behind Bayern Munich’s-should ensure the match is competitive, but Dortmund forward Marco Reus has burned them for seven goals in as many outings, and then there is Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
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Defending champions and current league leaders Bayern Munich (13-1-1, 40 points) will look to bounce back from their disappointing first loss in the 2015-2016 Bundesliga in this game against last season’s 2.
“Normally it would be 2-0 or 3-0 to us”, Ribery said of Bayern’s early chances.
For Moenchengladbach, the victory continued their fairy-tale rise from bottom of the table to third as they remain unbeaten after 10 Bundesliga games under Schubert.
“After the goal we lost our order a bit. We wanted to keep our run going for as long as possible but it’s ended”. “We should be operating like we have been doing in the past games, play with risk but also with brains”, said the versatile defender, who has also been deployed in midfield as Schubert shuffled positions. “After the opener we were even more confident, and we went on to wrap it up”.
Q: There were three 19-year olds in the starting lineup against Bayern; what does that say about Gladbach?
Ribery’s return is timely as Douglas Costa, one of the key players in the team, will miss the next few matches because of injury.
And Granit believes that his squad will deliver the win Saturday. Saturday was the first time Bayern have conceded three goals since losing 3-0 at Barcelona in the first leg of last season’s Champions League semi-finals.
Bayern are now just five points clear of nearest rivals Dortmund after BVB defeated Wolfsburg in the late kick off. The performance didn’t impress captain Phillip Lahm. “We mustn’t neglect the core of our play, as we’ve seen in this match”.
“We played very well in the first half and created many chances”. He told his team’s news site “Andre Schubert has taken the burden off us after those five games, with different team-talks to the ones Favre was giving us”.
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We did well in the first half, but didn’t execute well, we were not as confident, and did not press as offensively as we should have.
