Union Berlin-Bayern Munich is a match valid for the 30th day of the Bundesliga and is played on Saturday at 6:30pm: live TV, probable formations, predictions.
Last Wednesday, a goal by Joshua Kimmich was enough for Bayern Munich to fold Arsenal and detach a pass to its first Champions League semifinal since 2020, the year the Bavarians triumphed.
The return match with the Gunners ended 1-0 for Thomas Tuchel’s team, which will now vie for a place in the final in a fascinating double-header with Carlo Ancelotti’s Real Madrid. The cup with the big ears can thus “save” a season that would otherwise be disappointing: Bayern, in fact, is in danger of clamorously running out of titles. The Bundesliga is gone: after 11 years of Bavarian domination to triumph, with five days in advance, was the overflowing Bayer Leverkusen, which will most likely also win the German Cup. Tuchel therefore has his sights set on the Champions League before packing his bags, while at the same time trying to retain second place behind the Aspirins. At the moment Neuer and his teammates share it with Stuttgart, with Leipzig and Borussia Dortmund both far behind, at -6.
Union Berlin still in danger of relegation
In the last round of the Bundesliga, Bayern Munich had won 2-0 over Cologne, turning over a new leaf after two bad defeats in a row to Borussia Dortmund and Heidenheim.
In the Saturday afternoon postponement, Tuchel’s men will pay a visit to Union Berlin, which has failed to confirm this year what it did well in the previous season. The Capitols are still in danger of relegation, and their two defeats in the last two weeks to Bayer Leverkusen and Augsburg have brought them back to just three points behind third-last-place Mainz. Goals, meanwhile, continue to be a problem: Union have not scored any since mid-March.
The prediction
Bayern Munich might even pull the handbrake a bit, as the league currently has little to “offer” the Bavarians, who only have to play it all out in the Champions League. On paper, Union Berlin would have more motivation than the Bavarians, but the difficult moment the Capitols are going through makes it unlikely that they will trip Tuchel’s team, which by the way has never lost in nine confrontations with the capital club: a Bayern victory, complete with a clean sheet, as in the last two previous matches.
The probable lineups of Union Berlin-Bayern Munich
UNION BERLIN (3-1-4-2): Rønnow; Doekhi, Vogt, Diogo Leite; Khedira; Trimmel, Tousart, Schäfer, Gosens; Kaufmann, Aaronson.
BAYERN MUNICH (4-2-3-1): Neuer; Kimmich, de Ligt, Dier, Davies; Pavlović, Goretzka; Müller, Musiala, Tel; Kane.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 0-2
