Beaming with the 1-0 victory over Leverkusen Hannover 96 make their way south through to face Bayern München. Hungry for the another victory Bayern is struggling with Jürgen Klinsmann under great pressure as they have yet to win since the start of the Rückrunde.While Bayern is ripe for another fall, die Roten are still without a win away from AWD-Arena this year. Bayern is less likely to go "easy" in this match given their Champions League match on Tuesday as they blew Sporting apart in the opening leg 5-0. Additionally losing mid-week in the Pokal to Leverkusen has the club the focal point of a lot of criticism and they will want a strong response in front of their supporters.
However the blueprint to defeating Bayern at home has been well-laid out recently, none better than Köln, in which their coach Christoph Daum completely out-witted the opposition. Their starting eleven is up in the air will late decisions on Philipp Lahm, Franck Ribéry and Luca Toni to come but Mark van Bommel is suspended.
Dieter Hecking's chances are slowly improving as other than long term losses Vinicius, Gaetan Krebs und Valerien Ismael and injury concern Sergio Pinto, die Niedersachsen are returning to being fully-fit. While Herr Hecking is likely to use the same starting eleven as last week he may need to juggle his lineup due to a midweek training injury involving Steven Cherundolo and Mike Hanke. However with 5,500 die Roten fan making the trip south through Deutschland, support will be there and said simply the coach announced that we want a win!
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