Lewandowski collides with young Haaland ... Bayern are motivated, Dortmund misses the "yellow wall"

Tomorrow, Saturday, the direct confrontation between Polish sniper Robert Lewandowski and the lethal young Norwegian striker Erling Haaland will be renewed, when Bayern Munich, the defending champion in the last eight seasons, meets its host Borussia Dortmund in the "Klasiker" the seventh stage of the German Football League.

The two teams will enter the "Signal Iduna Park" stadium, which will once again miss the fans' hustle, especially in the famous southern amphitheater of the stadium known as the "Yellow Wall" due to the repercussions of the new Corona virus pandemic, and each has a score of 15 points, but Bayern leads by goal difference from their rivals. .

Bayern won the European champions in the last three meetings that brought the two teams together, but Dortmund came out a winner in two of the last three matches at home against the Bavarian giants.

The 32-year-old Polish international is top scorer in the Bundesliga this season with 10 goals from five matches he played, while Haaland, 20, has scored half that number with five goals in the same number of matches.

As coaches Hanzi Flick and Swiss Lucien Favre Lewandowski and Haaland were all rested in the previous stage last week, and each prepared for the upcoming confrontation with a double in their team’s victory in the Champions League midweek.

Lewandowski scored a superb penalty and header in Europe for 2020 in their 6-2 win over Salzburg, Austria's former Haaland club.

While the Norwegian international scored twice in Dortmund's 3-0 victory over Club Brugge, becoming the first player to score 14 goals in his first 11 matches in the Champions League (with Salzburg and Dortmund, who moved to him in January of this year).

Lewandowski appears on the right track to finish 2020/2021 at the top of the scorers' ranking in the Bundesliga for the fourth consecutive season, as he scored a goal every 37 minutes at a rate of two goals per match and reached the threshold of ten goals for the tenth consecutive season and became the first player in history to achieve that after five stages of this season .

Haaland scores a goal every 77 minutes.

Lewandowski seeks to reach the threshold of 30 goals, as he did in three seasons out of six with the Bavarian.

Last season he achieved his best goalscoring record in one season in the league with 34 goals and will strive despite the difficulty of the task to break the record for the number of goals in one season recorded in the name of legend Gerd Muller, who scored 40 goals in the 1971/1972 season.

Away from the green rectangle, problems have arisen recently in Bayern related to the issue of renewing the contract of Austrian center-back David Alaba, which expires in June.

The defender said he was "agonized and frustrated" after Bayern withdrew his bid under which he would have received 20 million euros (23.6 million dollars) per season, according to press reports.

Flick said he wanted "calm in the team before the match against Dortmund".

However, the question remains whether Dortmund will be able to stop Bayern, who have scored 44 goals in just 12 games in all competitions this season.

Dortmund will arm themselves with a strong defense, which has conceded only two league goals this season.

And after he returned to playing with a back line of four defenders instead of three, the team had not conceded any goal in the last four matches.

However, the test against Bayern will inevitably be more difficult than the one he faced against Schalke and Bielefeld in the league and Zenit Saint Petersburg and Bruges in the Champions League.

"We feel completely comfortable in the new way of playing. We know that we can win against Bayern at home. We have shown that on several occasions," said Swiss center-back Manuel Akanje.

Belgian midfielder Axel Witzel provided a distinguished level in defense alongside Akanji in the victory over Brugge, and he may start in the center of defense as well against Bayern if Mats Hummels does not recover from a thigh injury.

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