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Bayern Munich vs Schalke Prediction & Betting tips
It finally starts again! The Bundesliga starts its 58th season on Friday evening. Traditionally, the reigning champion opens the game, and usually very successfully. The respective title holder has not lost since 2002 (14 wins, four draws). If we believe the odds of the best bookmakers before the game Bayern against Schalke, nothing will change this year.
The newly crowned triple winner goes into the match as a big favorite, especially since the guests from Gelsenkirchen, despite the still sonorous name, are among the biggest problem children in the German upper house in these weeks and months. In January 2020, the Ruhrpottler celebrated their last three in the Bundesliga; 16 consecutive matches could therefore not be made victorious.
Rarely have the roles in the run-up to this pairing been so clearly distributed as on Friday. Should a prognosis for the team of the harshly criticized David Wagner pay off between Bayern and Schalke, it would have to be rated as a huge sensation. Nothing, but absolutely nothing, indicates that the Flick-Elf allowed themselves a slip on the first day of the new season.
We even lean a bit more out of the window and expect a sovereign victory for the record champions. From a betting point of view, in the duel between Bayern and Schalke, the tip on a three-point without conceding a goal may have the most attractive value. Alternatively, a handicap bet is also conceivable, possibly also in isolation for the first half, in which the Munich team could already overrun the royal blues.
Bayern Munich :
Admittedly, there is almost a bit of boredom when it comes to reciting FC Bayern’s outstanding statistics from the past season again and again. But: honor where honor is due .. The Munich team celebrated the almost perfect season last year, won the national double and finally crowned themselves Champions League winners in Lisbon.
The record champions have been unbeaten for 30 competitive games (!). The last 21 of these matches could even be won, 13 of them in the Bundesliga. Under Hansi Flick, who only succeeded the dismissed Niko Kovac in November 2019, the star ensemble from Säbener Straße landed 33 wins in a total of 36 games (one draw, two bankruptcies). Since, despite the relatively short preparation for the new season, a slump in the Rothosen should not be assumed, there is almost no alternative between Bayern and Schalke alluding to the odds on the home side.
In view of the one-sided odds distribution, which can be looked up in our betting base odds comparison, you still have to consider which bet on the favorites best represents the risk-return ratio.
The most exciting prize is surely the “to zero” success of the reigning title holder, who did not concede in the last two Champions League games against high-quality offensives (PSG, Lyon) and also scored seven clean sheets at the final spurt in the Bundesliga demonstrated defensive stability over the past eleven match days.
In terms of personnel, there are still one or two question marks before Bayern start the season. David Alaba’s contract extension is dragging on, Martinez and Tiago (probably fixed) are still flirting with a move and the two French Coman and newcomer Nianzou are missing on Friday for health reasons. Instead, Sané is about to make his Bundesliga comeback, exactly 1,588 days after his last appearance, at that time for Schalke 04.
Schalke:
Presenting the situation at FC Schalke 04 in a few (ab) sentences is like an impossible task. In short, the Royal Blues are currently in dire straits, both athletically and financially. In addition, more and more supporters are turning away from their favorite club’s new commercial course.
To make matters worse, the DFL’s schedule generator didn’t mean it really well with the Gelsenkirchen team. The miners play their first three away games in Munich, Dortmund and RB Leipzig. Before the game Bayern against Schalke, the prognosis that the guests will have a total false start to the 2020/21 season is certainly not far-fetched.
To substantiate the dilemma with numbers, one number is enough: 16. None of the past 16 Bundesliga games has been won by the team of coach David Wagner, who is mentioned in the media. In the so-called “ghost” table, the ambitious Ruhrpott club even came in 18th and last place.
Nine lean gates get S04 in the past second half of the season, which was by far the lowest value of all first division clubs. In more than half of all matches after the winter break, the twelfth of the final table did not manage to hit his own. The goal doldrums should end with Ibisevic and Pacienca, of all things, two newcomers. Otherwise, not so much has changed in the Royal Blues squad, except that with Nübel, McKennie and Caligiuri three leaders have left the club.
The preparation went anything but ideal. There were bankruptcies against third division Uerdingen (1: 3) or against fourth division Verl (4: 5). The doubts about coach David Wagner grow day by day and there is no clue why a tip on the blatant underdog should pay off in the game Bayern against Schalke.
Bayern Munich vs Schalke head to head matches
03.03.20 POK Schalke Bayern Munich 0 : 1
25.01.20 BUN Bayern Munich Schalke 5 : 0
24.08.19 BUN Schalke Bayern Munich 0 : 3
09.02.19 BUN Bayern Munich Schalke 3 : 1
22.09.18 BUN Schalke Bayern Munich 0 : 2