Moanes Dabour: Hoffenheim vs. Dortmund, ahead of Saturday’s Bundesliga games

The German league will return from the national team backlog when the fourth round kicks off tomorrow (Saturday), with no less than seven games featuring all the major teams. The focus will be on the meetings between Hoffenheim of Moanes Dabour and Borussia Dortmund, and between Arminia Bielefeld and Bayern Munich. Even before the Bundesliga returned to action, Hoffenheim issued a worrying announcement today: the club announced that two players returning from the national teams were found positive for Corona, but did not release the names of those infected. As is well known, during the national team break, Louis Taha, Nir Bitton, Hatem Alhamid and a team member were diagnosed with blue in the Israeli team, but Dabour was not among those infected with his joy and the joy of us all.

Hoffenheim – Borussia Dortmund (16:20, live broadcast on Sport1)

Sebastian Hans’ team suffered its first league loss before the break when it was defeated 2-1 away by Frankfurt and tomorrow it will not be easy for it to get back on the winning track, as it will face one of the strongest rivals in the Bundesliga. Dabour is due to start in the squad despite the busy days he spent in the national team. The striker did complete 90 minutes against Slovakia on Tuesday, but did not start in the previous game and was replaced against Scotland, so Hans hopes he will arrive fresh enough for the game against Dortmund. The coach did not miss the incident between his player and Eran Zehavi yesterday, an event that even made headlines in the German “Bild”, where it was written: “The Hoffenheim star went wild during Israel’s game!”. The miracle He said: “I did not see the case, I will look and talk about it with Moanes.”

Hoffenheim has already beaten Bayern Munich 1: 4 this season, so a win over Dortmund is certainly not an impossible task for them, and to see its balance against the team from the Ruhr region in the 2019/20 season: For the first time ever, “Hope” won both meetings between the teams in the league, 1: 2 and 0: 4.

On the other hand, the yellow-blacks will get back into the squad Jadon Sancho, who missed three consecutive games before the national team break but has already managed to play in the national uniform against Belgium and Denmark. Dortmund defeated Freiburg 0: 4 in their last game in the league, but were surprised 2: 0 by Augsburg in the previous round, so instability has characterized Lucian Fabre’s side so far. Marco Royce is still trying to return to full fitness and Thorgen Hazar is sidelined due to injury, so Giovanni Reina is expected to start at the front alongside the fiery Arling Holland, who has already scored four league goals this season and even starred with a three-pointer in Norway’s 0-4 win over Romania earlier this week .

Arminia Bielefeld – Bayern Munich (19:20, live broadcast on Sport3)

The newcomer has scored four points so far and her chances of improving the balance against the European champions are not high at all, although Bayern themselves are not exactly on the list in the first three rounds, although they have won two of them. Luckily for the Bavarians, at the helm stood him coach Robert Lewandowski, shooting a quartet into the net of Hertha Berlin and assuring Hansi Flick a 3-4 win in the final game before the break. Although he has suffered a minor ankle injury in recent days, it seems that the Pole will start in the Bayern squad.

Flick is expected to give rest to players who have been called up to the national teams, so Kingsley Coman may be included in the 11 and Douglas Costa, who returned to the team at the end of the transfer window and shared 0: 3 over Dorn in the cup yesterday, is set to make another Bundesliga debut.

Bayern have lost just one of their last 43 games against Premier League newcomers (40 wins and two draws), and that too happened in the final round of the 2017/18 season against Stuttgart, when the championship was already guaranteed for the Bavarians. At the same time, Arminia has not lost an official home game in almost a year – since surrendering to Schalke in the Cup on October 20, 2019.