The Bavarians won the recent adjustment between the two groups 6-2 in Austria, with a series of bayern back goals that made the result a little more one-sided than the truth of the adjustment.
Last season’s champions looked wonderful, so this season, leading the Bundesliga after 8 games and winning their 3 Champions League matches in Group A.
Beating Salzburg and qualifying for the last 16 games with two games to lose would be a major touch for Hansi Flick’s team, which has suffered injuries in recent weeks and would gain great advantages from the opportunity to rest players on what would necessarily be dead. European rubbers, according to the effects of Atletico Madrid and whether completing ahead of them in the organization is a more sensible priority.
In fact, without Joshua Kimmich, Leon Goretzka or Corentin Tolisso in the middle of the field from the start, the Bavarians covered a little in the 1–1 tie at home with Werder Bremen on Saturday, allowing their well-known rival, Borussia Dortmund, to close the gap after beating them. the circular past of matches before the foreign break.
However, with players like Robert Lewandowski, Kingsley Coman, Thomas Muller and Leroy Sane, they all have compatibility and shooting, they still have more firepower than any team in Europe and Salzburg will have an incredibly complicated task to get them involved.
After almost qualifying for the 16-year-olds for the first time in the club’s history last season, Red Bull Salzburg was a little disappointing this time, earning a solitary point in his first three Group A games.
Jesse Marsch’s team led all three games, adding to temporarily take the lead at Bayern before cutting them to 2-2 in the middle of the moment, but awarding 11 goals in three games was not a recipe for success.
In Dominik Szoboszlai, who scored against Lokomotiv Moscow and Atlético, he has one of the young players with the highest score in Europe. Strike minute opposed to Iceland taking her country to Euro 2020.
Marsch will want his key player to pull all the cylinders if his team wants to have the chance to get a positive result for Bayern, who want the chance to stay in the competition.
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Kimmich will return before the New Year after suffering a meniscus injury in the win over Dortmund, with Alphonso Davies absent until early December from a ruptured ankle ligament.
Lucas Hernandez, who has skillfully replaced Davies in recent weeks, limped early against Bremen after suffering a concussion in his pelvic dominance after a collision with Theodor Gebre Selassie and being very against Salzburg.
Tolisso has returned to full education after his mild injury sustained in the foreign service with France, but it would be unexpected to see him also stored until the weekend.
Zlatko Junuzovic and Masaya Okugawa, who scored in this season’s competition, played no role in the weekend’s blindfire defeat to Sturm Graz and have doubts about the opposite game against Bayern.
Star striker Patson Daka has a definitive thigh injury, while Antoine Bernede’s shin injury is expected to keep the midfielder out until the end of January.
Departure from Bayern Munich: Neuer; Pavard, Sule, Alaba, Sarr; Martinez, Goretzka; Sano, Muller, Gnabry; Lewandowski
Imaginable start of Red Bull Salzburg: Stankovic; Nissen, Ramalho, Wober, Ulmer; Mwepu, Kamara, Seiwald; Berisha, Szoboszlai; Koita
While Salzburg potentially lacked key attacking players and struggled to maintain the right balance defensively, we can see Bayern in riots to qualify for the 16-way race.
Although their midfield is not working fully at the moment, Flick’s team simply has too much quality in and around the two boxes for Salzburg to get the result they want to remain realistic in the competition.