Bundesliga Betting - Week 6 Preview

20th Sep 2007, 20:16

This week Bayern Munich found themselves in the unaccustomed position of sitting back and watching Stuttgart, Bremen and Schalke in the Champions League, having failed to qualify for the competition for the first time in ten years. Instead they play on Thursday in the UEFA Cup along with Nurnberg and Leverkusen. Bundesliga bettors should keep the demands of European football in mind when checking out up to 60% better Bundesliga betting odds at PinnacleSports.com.

Bayern Munich Running Out of Steam?

Bayern Munich flew out of the blocks at the start of the new Bundesliga season, reeling off three straight victories, with an aggregate score of 10-0. In the last few weeks they have recorded consecutive 1-1 draws, suggesting that maybe they are running out of steam, or that opponents are raising their game. The Bavarians play Portuguese side, Belenenses in the UEFA Cup on Thursday, for which Miroslav Klose is banned, and Luca Toni an injury doubt. Both should however be available for the visit to Karsruhe on Sunday.

Willy Sagnol, Jose Sosa and Philipp Lahm remain sidelined, but Mark Van Bommel, Christian Lell and Lucio have all resumed training, which isn’t good news for Karlsruhe. KSC are so far, doing the best of the newly promoted sides, thanks in great part to Tamas Hajnal, with three goals and two assists. Bayern boss, Ottmar Hitzfeld, will also be wary that Karlsruhe have the most offensive defenders in the league, providing three goals. The home side should also be at an advantage due to der FCB’s UEFA commitments but PinnacleSports.com price Bayern Munich favourites 1.855 (-1) with Karlsruhe 2.08 (+1).

Bremen & Stuttgart Must Re-Focus on Domestic Issues

After their midweek Champions League defeats, Werder Bremen and Stuttgart must focus their attention on this important Bundesliga clash. Both sides have seven points after moderate starts to the new campaign, though Werder boss, Thomas Schaaf, will be concerned about their leaky defence which has already conceded 10 league goals, but at least he has an extra day to prepare them.

This is an historically entertaining game, as in 41 meetings of the sides at Bremen’s Weserstadion, there hasn’t been a single goalless draw. Last season’s meetings produced ten goals, with Stuttgart doing the double on the way to winning the title. The champions are in fact unbeaten in five games against Bremen, and four away meetings. However, so far this season they have seemed muted on the road scoring just once; only the bottom club have a worse away scoring ratio. PinnacleSports.com price Werder Bremen 2.27 (-0.5) and Stuttgart 1.73 (+0.5).

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