Hamburger SV vs Bayern Munich Prediction - An Apparent Easy Test For The German Champions

Next Saturday, 20th of September 2014, the current German champions, Bayern Munich, will travel to Hamburg to measure forces with Hamburger SV at Imtech Arena for round four of the Bundesliga.

Although Pep Guardiola’s boys haven’t seem to be as effective as they were last term so far this season, they have managed to win two of the three Bundesliga’s matches they took part in. After a somewhat disappointing performance during their visit to Gelsenkirchen to play against Schalke 04 three weeks ago, Bayern managed to bounce back last weekend as they easily defeated Stuttgart at home by 2-0, thanks to goals from Mario Götze and Franck Ribery.

Last Wednesday’s night, Bayern entertained the current English champions, Manchester City, at Allianz Arena for the UEFA Champions League and they have managed to avenge last season’s defeat. Guardiola’s team controlled large periods of match but all of their intents were denied by an utterly inspired Joe Hart that was only unable to stop Boateng’s effort on the dying moments of clash.

On a side note, Bayern started the competition with a victory for the 14th time in their history and they scored their 800th goal in European competitions.

The Spanish manager has implemented some tactical changes in his team this season and so far he has already tried two different systems (3-4-3 and 4-3-3) with an apparent same level of success. Although not yet glamourous, this season’s Bayern seem pretty effective and since we still are in the early stages of the campaign, we will certainly see plenty more of them.

As for Hamburger SV, things are far from going smoothly. The historical German side has not yet not scored a single goal at Bundesliga so far this season and they are suffocating at the bottom of the table, with just one point in three matches. Josef Zinnbauer’s boys have been going through a very complicated period and the match against Bayern could not have come at a worst time.

For the match against the Bavarian team, Zinnbauer will not have many important players, such as Rafael van der Vaart, Jansen and Ivo Ilicevic at his disposal because of injury, something that puts the team into a even more delicate situation.

When both sides went head-to-head at Hamburg last season, the visitors easily won by 4-1 and things should not be very different this term, especially if we consider both teams’ current situation.

Hamburger SV

Stats: W-2 L-2 D-1

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Bayern Munich

Stats: W-4 L-0 D-1

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Possible Line-ups

Hamburger SV (4-2-3-1) - Drobny - Diekmeier - Djourou - Cleber - Ostrzolek - Behrami - Holtby - Müller - Green - Stieber - Lasogga

Bayern Munich (4-3-3) -  Neuer - Rafinha - Benatia - Boateng - Bernat - Alaba - Lahm - Xabi Alonso - Göetze - Müller - Lewandowski

Prediction

Hamburger SV 0 Bayern Munich 2