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Dortmund's Jude Bellingham (left) and Bayern's Serge Gnabry
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At this point, we would like to once again express our heartfelt thanks to the Bundesliga match planner.
He has already scheduled the game between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich for the 9th matchday, in a phase in which the season is still sorting itself out and FC Bayern has already taken its annual autumn flu.
With the result that the duel between the two clubs is this time in the table under the label fourth against third.
If you have a bit of mild mockery left, you can call the game a battle of the Union and Freiburg hunters.
Dortmund versus Bayern – a duel of pursuit.
How unusual that sounds.
How nice too.
Just the fact that the winner of this game is not necessarily the leader of the table again after this day should be cause for joy.
Once not the usual: the eternal second against the eternal first.
The fact that the proven media pomp is then stylized to the German Clásico, a pomp that usually ends when the game is played.
The dominance of Bayern is unbroken
So this time it's different, and one would like to call out to all football fans: Enjoy this situation, enjoy this suggestion of tension while it still exists.
It won't last long.
If the footballing truism: "Everything evens out in the course of a season" is ever true, then it is based on Bayern's dominance compared to their periods of weakness.
FC Bayern also loses against FC Augsburg and picks up their traditional point losses against Borussia Mönchengladbach, but by the second half of the season at the latest it will all be waste and the caravan will move on to the next championship title.
A squad with Sadio Mané, Mathijs de Ligt, Leroy Sané, Kingsley Coman, Leon Goretzka, Jamal Musiala cannot not become a champion.
So much injustice cannot befall the record champions, nor can the FC Bayern board commit so many management errors for this to happen.
BVB, Bayer, RB – everyone is weak
Especially since teams like Dortmund, Leipzig, Leverkusen, which would have the economic potential to at least establish reputation with Bayern, do not seem capable of doing so this season.
BVB has already lost three out of eight games, RB and Bayer have already fired their coaches.
And a title win for 1. FC Union or SC Freiburg would be a beautiful dream.
But just a dream.
Luckily, in Berlin and in Breisgau, they know that only too well.
The balance of power in the Bundesliga hasn't changed, it won't change, and it certainly won't change this Saturday.
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But as long as they are cemented in the table again soon, you should and can watch this moment with fun.
After all, they are the two best teams in the league, they only meet twice a season, you can watch that without complaining and in a bad mood.
Maybe Dortmund will even win.
It would be an important win for second place.