{"id":654804,"date":"2025-05-16T13:30:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T17:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=654804"},"modified":"2025-05-16T12:09:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T16:09:38","slug":"bayern-munich-predicted-lineup-vs-tsg-hoffenheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/05\/16\/bayern-munich-predicted-lineup-vs-tsg-hoffenheim\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich Predicted Lineup vs TSG Hoffenheim For May 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Bundesliga title race having been decided two weeks ago, Bayern Munich have themselves nothing to play for, as they face TSG Hoffenheim on the last day of the season. Their opponents, however, still have to ensure direct safety from relegation\u2014a 1. FC Heidenheim win against Werder Bremen, combined with a Hoffenheim loss to Bayern by a certain score line, would send Hoffenheim to the promotion\/relegation playoff against the third-place finishers from Bundesliga 2. Therefore, the integrity of the German top-flight football is at stake for the Bavarians. Last Word on Football brings you our Bayern Munich predicted lineup for the match.<\/p>\n<h2>Bayern Munich Predicted Lineup vs TSG Hoffenheim<\/h2>\n<h3>How Bayern Munich Have Lined Up Recently<\/h3>\n<p>Last weekend, the team started as follows: Manuel Neuer made his return in goal. The back four was made up of Konrad Laimer, Eric Dier, Josip Stanisic, and Raphael Guerreiro. Joshua Kimmich and Leon Goretzka covered the holding midfield roles, as Michael Olise, Thomas M\u00fcller, Kingsley Coman, and Harry Kane made up the front four.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/05\/11\/bayern-munich-must-fix-europe\/\" target=\"_self\">What Bayern Munich Must Fix to Win in Europe \u2013 Opinion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Overall, coach Vincent Kompany made five changes compared to the previous week. Neuer, Guerreiro, Goretzka, Coman, and Kane came in for Jonas Urbig, and Sacha Boey, Aleksandar Pavlovic, Serge Gnabry, and Leroy San\u00e9.<\/p>\n<h3>Bayern Munich Recent Form and Tactics<\/h3>\n<p>The team form is quite good. This side will be motivated to finish the season on a high, avoiding any criticism from Heidenheim or elsewhere, so that they might not take this game seriously.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/05\/14\/bayern-munich-centre-back-problem\/\" target=\"_self\">Why Bayern Munich Must Fix Their Biggest Problem Before Club World Cup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 4-2-3-1 formation will most likely be the setup of choice for this match as well, as it has been for almost the entire term.<\/p>\n<h3>Bayern Munich Injuries to Consider<\/h3>\n<p>Bayern are still without the services of Kim Min-jae, along with all the long-term absences, namely Jamal Musiala, Dayot Upamecano, Alphonso Davies, and Hiroki Ito. Kompany confirmed this in his pre-match <a  href=\"https:\/\/fcbayern.com\/de\/news\/2025\/05\/ticker-pressetalk-des-fc-bayern-vor-dem-saisonfinale-bei-der-tsg-hoffenheim\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press conference<\/a> by saying that it looked like all the players who were available last week would be again this week, barring anything unusual happening at Friday\u2019s training session.<\/p>\n<h3>Bayern Munich Predicted Lineup vs TSG Hoffenheim<\/h3>\n<p>Neuer, Laimer, Dier, Stanisic, Guerreiro, Kimmich, Gorezka, Olise, M\u00fcller, Gnabry, Kane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Bundesliga title race having been decided two weeks ago, Bayern Munich have themselves nothing to play for, as they face TSG Hoffenheim on the last day of the season. Their opponents, however, still have to ensure direct safety from relegation\u2014a 1. FC Heidenheim win against Werder Bremen, combined with a Hoffenheim loss to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4762,"featured_media":653104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1364,4,1831],"tags":[9947,514],"class_list":["post-654804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bayern-munich","category-bundesliga","category-starting-line-up","tag-bayern-munich-predicted-lineup","tag-vincent-kompany"],"modified_by":"Henry Chung, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654807,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654804\/revisions\/654807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}