The 56th Bundesliga season will be opened tonight with Bayern Munich, who will host Hoffenheim’s ambitious home.

For the sixth time in a row, the Bavarians will start the season as the champions in power. They have won five previous opening games and the last time they lost was in the 2011/12 season (0-1 at home against Borussia Mönchengladbach).

Moral is very good in the ranks of Bayern, who in the beginning of this month won the German Super Cup after defeating Eintrach Frankfurt with a profound 5-0 result. But it was not as convincing as the 1-0 win in the 1/32 round of the German Cup against SV Drochtersen, fourth-team squad. Meanwhile, after 10 seasons in the Bundesliga, Hoffenheim has had a downward trend in the opening match of the championship, as shown by 4 wins, 3 draws and 3 recorded losses.

Friends have taken third place in the championship last season and have not suffered any losses during the preparatory phase (4 wins, 2 draws). This good form continued last weekend, with the 6-1 win at the German Cup against Kaiserslautern. In 20 games played against Bayern in the Bundesliga, Hoffenheim has managed to win only two matches and both of those victories have come to their field (2 wins, 5 draws, 13 losses). Only one of these meetings is closed without goals.

Key players
Last season’s top scorer, Robert Lewandowski (29 appearances) has scored three goals in the German Super Cup and has achieved a win in the German Cup match.
Hazard number one for the protection of the locals will be Andrej Kramaric. He is the under-champion of the world with Croatia and has been Hoffenheim’s second best scorer last season with 13 goals and 6 assists.

Statistics
– Bayern has never lost against Hoffenheim at home (8 wins, 2 draws).
– In eight of the ten matches played against Hoffenheim at home, Bayern has scored at least two goals and has not undergone one in five of those meetings.
– Hoffenheim has scored 32 goals in the last ten games he has played in the Bayern field (3.2 per match)./Flashsport24