This is the Bayern Munich predicted lineup for their return to Bundesliga action. The holders will take on a depleted RB Leipzig side who lost frontman Benjamin Sesko over the summer. With the Bavarians refining their squad a bit, they’ll be hoping to make a statement with a big win over Leipzig to start their season off on the right note.<\/p>\n
Manuel Neuer started the Supercup final in goal. The back four saw Jonathan Tah and Dayot Upamecano as the centre-back pairing. Josip Stanisic was the left back with Konrad Laimer playing as right-back.<\/p>\n
Read More:\u00a0<\/strong>Chelsea Must Wait on Bayern Munich to Unlock Xavi Simons Deal<\/a><\/p>\n Leon Goretzka and Joshua Kimmick is the main pivot in the defensive midfield positions. Newcomer Luis Diaz started and scored on the left, Michael Olise moved centrally, Serge Gnabry played on the right wing, with Harry Kane predictably leading the line.<\/p>\n Vincent Kompany has remained loyal to the 4-2-3-1 setup that Bayern have used for most of their recent history. It is designed to control the ball but against Stuttgart that didn’t work too well, as they managed just 53% of the possession. They still managed to get the win but it showed some flaws in their ideology.<\/p>\n Read More:\u00a0<\/strong>A Good Season With Room to Grow: 2024\/25 Bayern Munich Season Review<\/a><\/p>\n After crashing out of the Club World Cup to PSG in rather meek fashion, the Bavarians have been back on track in pre-season, beating Tottenham by four goals and then lifting the Supercup. The current Bundesliga champions have momentum on their side coming into this one.<\/p>\n Per Sofascore<\/a>, there are a number of absentees which could provide some headaches for Kompany. Alphonso Davies remains sidelined with Hirooki Ito, Jamal Musiala, and Aleksander Pavlovic. Laimer is a doubt for this one as is Paul Wanner. Tom Bischoff has most recently been ruled out<\/a> for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n GK – Manuel Neuer<\/p>\n LB – Josip Stanisic<\/p>\n CB – Jonathan Tah<\/p>\n CB – Dayot Upamecano<\/p>\n RB – Sacha Boey<\/p>\n DM – Leon Goretzka<\/p>\n DM – Joshua Kimmich<\/p>\n AM – Serge Gnabry<\/p>\n W – Luis Diaz<\/p>\n W – Michael Olise<\/p>\n ST – Harry Kane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is the Bayern Munich predicted lineup for their return to Bundesliga action. The holders will take on a depleted RB Leipzig side who lost frontman Benjamin Sesko over the summer. With the Bavarians refining their squad a bit, they’ll be hoping to make a statement with a big win over Leipzig to start their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":656494,"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":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1364,4],"tags":[9947],"class_list":["post-658416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bayern-munich","category-bundesliga","tag-bayern-munich-predicted-lineup"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658416","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\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658416"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658475,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658416\/revisions\/658475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Bayern Munich Recent Form & Tactics<\/h3>\n
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