Just 90 minutes of the 2022/23 Bundesliga season remain, and in that time new legends and heroes will be born – potentially, none more so than ones in yellow and black, with Dortmund entering the finale just one win away from breaking Bayern’s decade-long stranglehold on the Meisterschale.
It’s now Matchday 34 in the Bundesliga, as the German soccer season comes to a close. That means all nine matches played simultaneously, and that means the chance to try for a major parlay.
Two weeks left, and still nobody blinks, as each of the remaining title contenders – Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund – won with ease again last weekend. In matchweek 32, the immovable colossi scored 11 goals between them to keep the gap at just a point in current champions Bayern’s favor, as Dortmund thrashed Borussia Mönchengladbach 5-2.
Thirty-one rounds gone, and now just three to go. What more can be said at this point? Once again, it’s still tight at the top with just a point separating Dortmund from Bayern Munich, with neither blinking in the previous round.
There has been little to separate Bayern Munich from Borussia Dortmund for months, leaving the two leading lights of German football set to trade blows until the bitter end. With three games remaining, Bayern look set to make it 11 league titles in a row despite leading by just one point.
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The equation for Dortmund is simple: win every game, win their first title since doing so in 2012 under Jürgen Klopp. However, a poor recent H2H record against mid-table Borussia Mönchengladbach is hard to ignore, as is the form of Mainz, who they face on the final day:
This Sunday has all the hallmarks of a day that could see the top-five establish a near-immovable monopoly for themselves, with as much as a nine-point gap from 5th to 6th being a highly plausible scenario come the new week.
This week the focus falls on two teams who look set to at least finish in the top-six, but simply have no more room for error if they are to leap into the top-four with time now running out.