By Goal.com News on Saturday, 15 May 2021
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LIVE: Freiburg vs Bayern Munich

10' Close! Sane cuts inside from the right, before drilling an 18-yard strike narrowly wide of the near post!

8' Grifo will most likely be key if Freiburg are to pull off an upset today. Grifo has had a hand in 17 Bundesliga goals this season (nine goals, eight assists). Since detailed data collection began in 2004/05, only two players have ever been directly involved in more goals for Freiburg in one top-flight campaign: Papiss Cisse (22 in 2010/11) and Max Kruse (19 in 2012/13).

6' The hosts have made a confident start so far. They've settled quickly and have enjoyed plenty of possession, while also stifling Bayern when defending. 

4' Kimmich trips Grifo on the edge of the box, presenting Freiburg with a promising crossing opportunity. Grifo elects to try an audacious shot from the set-piece though, and it swerves comfortably wide of the far post. 

2' Flekken scuffs a clearance towards Lewandowski, but Hofler just manages to get there first to prevent a mishap.    

1' Freiburg get the first half underway.

The players are emerging from the tunnel and kick off is just seconds away!

In Bayern’s 6-0 win over Gladbach last time out, Robert Lewandowski scored three or more goals in one game for the fifth time in the Bundesliga this season – only Gerd Muller has ever managed this more often (six times in 1971/72). Lewandowski is now one goal away from Muller’s 40-goal record campaign from 1971/72.

Bayern make three alterations to the team that thrashed Gladbach 6-0 last weekend: Pavard makes way for Sule in defence, while Coman and Musiala are replaced in attack by Gnabry and Sane.

Freiburg make one change to the side that defeated Koln 4-1 last time out – Santamaria slots into midfield in place of Yannik Keitel.

SUBS: Benjamin Pavard, Bouna Sarr, Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, Corentin Tolisso, Jamal Musiala, Kingsley Coman, Manuel Neuer, Marc Roca, Javi Martinez.

BAYERN MUNICH (4-2-3-1): Alexander Nubel; Niklas Sule, Jerome Boateng, Lucas Hernandez, Alphonso Davies; Joshua Kimmich, David Alaba; Leroy Sane, Thomas Muller, Serge Gnabry; Robert Lewandowski.

SUBS: Lucas Holer, Woo-Yeong Jeong, Janik Haberer, Jonathan Schmid, Yannik Keitel, Dominique Heintz, Keven Schlotterbeck, Chang-Hoon Kwon, Benjamin Uphoff.

FREIBURG (4-4-2): Mark Flekken; Lukas Kubler, Philipp Lienhart, Manuel Gulde, Christian Gunter; Roland Sallai, Nicolas Hofler, Baptiste Santamaria, Vincenzo Grifo; Ermedin Demirovic, Nils Petersen.

Bayern, meanwhile, secured the Bundesliga title last weekend and they’ll be looking for two wins in their final two games to break the 80-point mark for the season.

Hello and welcome to live commentary of this Bundesliga fixture between Freiburg and Bayern Munich. The hosts enter this one safely placed in ninth after two wins from their last five games and they’ll be hoping to finish their last ever game at the Schwarzwald-Stadion with a victory today, before they move into their new home for the 2021/22 season.  

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