Bundesliga 2020/21: Borussia Dortmund vs. Bayern Munich

It is one of the most exciting and electrizing matches in world football: Borussia Dortmund against FC Bayern Munich. On Saturday, the German “Klassiker” will start at 6:30 pm MET in the Signal Iduna Park. Both teams started quite good in the new Bundesliga season as they both won 5 matches and lost one. While Dortmund conceded the less amount of goals (2 in 6 matches), Bayern scored the most (24 in 6 matches). So, the best defence will face the most dangerous offence in Germany´s top football. The team that will win the match and get the three points makes a big step to win the league. It is probably the most interesting match his weekend in world football even with Liverpool facing Manchester City.

This tactical analysis will look at both sides’ attacking and defending tactics, all with the aim of finding their strengths and weaknesses. The analysis will also look at which line-ups both sides could use.

Line-ups

Bayern´s chip-balls

FC Bayern are likely to have possession most of the time as it is their claim to dominate their opponents even in away matches. They always try to open up space in the opponent´s defensive line by playing horizontal passes. However, at some point, a chip-ball is suddenly played in behind the opponent´s defensive lines. With the pace of Bayern´s wingers, these passes are very dangerous and lead to a goal-scoring opportunity if they are played successfully. Mostly, Joshua Kimmich has the task and the ability to play these well-timed chip-balls.

Therefore, Kimmich often drops deep in between the centre-backs to get the ball in the build-up and then, overplays the opponent’s whole team as you can see below.