Kompany in search of a response

By Ben Sully@SullyBen

Bayern Munich boss Vincent Kompany problem his facet to bounce again from their latest defeat to Mainz once they welcome RB Leipzig to the Allianz Area for Friday’s Bundesliga contest.

Bayern Munich

Kompany suffered his first Bundesliga loss in final Saturday’s dwelling conflict with Mainz. Lee Jae-sung opened the scoring within the forty first minute, earlier than he doubled Mainz’s benefit on the hour mark. Leroy Sané pulled a objective again within the 87th minute, nevertheless it in the end proved to be too little too late for his facet.

Sadly for the Bavarians, defending champions Bayer Leverkusen took benefit of their slip-up, beating Augsburg 2-0 to scale back Bayern’s lead on the prime to 4 factors. Nonetheless, whereas they could have skilled disappointment final weekend, Bayern nonetheless have one unbeaten document to guard, having averted defeat in all six of their Bundesliga dwelling matches this season. The truth is, Kompany’s facet have gained 5 of their six league video games in Munich, together with every of their final 4 top-flight dwelling outings towards Stuttgart, Union Berlin, Augsburg and Heidenheim. 

Bayern additionally loved success of their most up-to-date dwelling recreation towards RB Leipzig, with Harry Kane netting a stoppage-time winner in February’s conflict on the Allianz Area.

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Kane and Alphonso Davies are all set to return to the squad, though it’s unclear whether or not the pair will play an energetic position in Friday’s contest. In the meantime, Kompany remains to be unable to name upon Manuel Neuer, Sacha Boey, Hiroki Ito, Kingsley Coman, Joao Palhinha and Tarek Buchmann.

RB Leipzig

Leipzig are sitting in fourth place and 6 factors adrift of Bayern after profitable eight, drawing three and dropping three of their 14 league matches. Marco Rose’s facet lately skilled a four-game winless league run, earlier than they obtained their Bundesliga marketing campaign again on observe with a 2-0 away win over Holstein Kiel. 

They loved one other profitable outing in Sunday’s assembly with Eintracht Frankfurt on the Purple Bull Area. Benjamin Šeško noticed his opener cancelled out by Nathaniel Brown, earlier than Loïs Openda scored the decisive objective to seal a 2-1 victory, shifting Leipzig stage on factors with third-placed Frankfurt.

Die Roten Bullen will now head on their travels for a troublesome away recreation towards Bayern Munich. The guests have gained simply one in every of their earlier eight away Bundesliga video games towards Bayern (D2, L5), with that sole victory happening in Might 2023. They are going to hope to vary that statistic on Friday, as look to change into the third workforce to win a top-flight on the Allianz Area in 2024. Because it stands, Werder Bremen and Borussia Dortmund are the one two sides which have crushed Bayern in an away league recreation within the present calendar yr.

Crew Information

David Raum may return to the squad, whereas late choices shall be made on Kevin Kampl and Amadou Haidara’s availability. Nonetheless, the the guests will certainly be with out the providers of Xavi Simons, Castello Lukeba, Yussuf Poulsen, Eljif Elmas and Assan Ouédraogo.