On Matchday 21, Bundesliga leaders FC Bayern Munich will face one of their oldest rivals and current bogey team, Borussia Mönchengladbach, in a classic German football rivalry. These two clubs shared the league title over nine successive seasons between 1968 and 1977.
Despite not winning the Bundesliga since then, Gladbach has an impressive recent record against the defending champions, winning nine of their 23 matches against Bayern since the 2011-12 campaign and remaining unbeaten in their last four games in all competitions, including a 5-0 victory in the DFB Cup when they last hosted Bayern in October 2021. US defender Joe Scally and recent World Cup finalist Marcus Thuram will be motivated to improve Gladbach’s current 10th position in the table after a 4-1 defeat at Hertha Berlin.
Bayern’s nearest challengers, second-placed 1. FC Union Berlin, are one point off the pace and on a club-record run of five consecutive Bundesliga wins. They have yet to lose at home this season and will play Schalke 04, the league’s bottom club, who have improved of late with three successive scoreless draws.
Borussia Dortmund is going well in third place and will aim for a sixth consecutive Bundesliga success in a row, but Hertha, thirdbottom in the table, will hope to pick up another positive result in Dortmund after their morale-boosting home win over Gladbach.
FC Augsburg and TSG Hoffenheim will get Matchday 21 underway on Friday night, followed by VfL Wolfsburg and RB Leipzig on Saturday afternoon. Meanwhile, VfL Bochum 1848 needs to make home advantage pay this weekend against fourth-placed SC Freiburg.
In Bundesliga 2, pacesetters SV Darmstadt 98 will travel to face midtable FC Hansa Rostock on Saturday evening to preserve their four-point advantage over Hamburger SV, who are at home to relegation-threatened DSC Arminia Bielefeld on Sunday. This weekend marks Bundesliga Matchday 21 of 34 in this season’s Bundesliga.
German Bundesliga Matchweek 21 Fixtures
Fc Augsburg v Hoffeinheim
Bochum v Freigburg
Borussia Monchengladbach v FC Bayern Munich
Stuggart v SC Cologne
FC Wolfsburg v RB Leipzig
Eintract Frankfurt v Werder Bremen
Union Berlin v Schalke 04
Borussia Dortmund v Hertha Berlin
Bayer Leverkusen v Mainz