1. Bundesliga
München- Schalke: Schalke +1 @ 1.80
München is struggling at the moment with expectation and mainly with injuries. they lost the big match vs. Bordeaux at home during the week and are in big danger of not qualifying for ko-stage in ECL.
Ribery and Olic will still be out for today and Robben probably again playing only one half. they are simply lacking creativity at the moment and struggling on offense.they are under an immense amount of pressure right now and other than in the past are not performing too well so far this season in this situation.
Schalke meanwhile is the opposite...nobody has expect big things from the team this season as they are in a re-building stage under new coach Magath. but has he has done with WOlfsburg last season he brings surprising big success to the club. Schalke is coming of 2 big draws at home vs. Hamburg and Leverkusen, where they came back late in both games after being down 0-2. they will be full of confidence and they are the strongest away team in league with 4 wins and one draw. they will not shy away of playing at München as they has pretty good success inb the past there getting 4 ponts from last 2 matches at München.
Also the homecoming of coach Magath to München might be a good factor for them as he has proven to have big success with Wolfsburg and Schalke vs. his former team.
this will be a faairly close match and especially with Schalke s away strength i see them not loosing by two with actually a great chance of getting a draw.
Hoffenheim- Wolfsburg: Wolfsburg pk,+0.5 @ 2.05
i ll keep it short here. Two very good and in form teams here and with the open approach both like to play there should not be much in it. Hoffenheim strong at home and Wolfsburg recently strong away (coming also of an impressive 3-0 win at Besiktas during week).
Hoffenheim won against the weaker club in the league so far where they can dominate tempo , but struggled big time against the better teams (1-1 München, 0-0 Schalke, 0-1 Leverkusen,0-2 Bremen). Open match where i like to get at least half a win with the draw.
Gladbach- Stuttgart: Stuttgart pk,-0.5 @1.95
open match again here between two struggling clubs. But the potential is different, Gladbach after not winning in 6 games got a big away win at Hamburg last weekend, still they are not very strong and will remain in the bottom half of league. Stuttgart s struggles are a bit of a surprise. they are not as strong as last season but still not a team for the 2nd half of the table. they have shown some improvement lately with the 0-0 vs. München and a 1-1 draw at Sevilla in ECL.
they have also a very great history at Gladbach where they usually perform well and won the last 2 matches (they are actually the most successful club in league playing at Gladbach)