5 reasons Bayern Munich will beat Borussia Dortmund in Der Klassiker
With an insatiable Harry Kane at one end of the pitch and Manuel Neuer on the brink of an outright Bundesliga record at the other, Bayern Munich fans can be confident of celebrating an 11th straight win of the season at home to Klassiker rivals Borussia Dortmund.
bundesliga.com outlines why Vincent Kompany’s team will emerge triumphant on Matchday 7.
1) Bayern are due a Klassiker victory
Having failed to get the better of their arch-rivals since November 2023, Bayern will be more determined than ever to get one over Niko Kovač’s troops on Matchday 7.
A late Jamal Musiala header earned Kompany’s side a share of the spoils at Signal Iduna Park on Matchday 12 last season, but efforts from Raphaël Guerreiro and Serge Gnabry were not enough to earn the Bavarians all three points on home soil as BVB escaped Munich with a 2-2 draw.
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The season before last, Edin Terzić’s team bounced back from a 4-0 home loss with an impressive 2-0 victory at the Allianz Arena, courtesy of goals from Karim Adeyemi and Julian Ryerson.
That result – along with back-to-back stalemates last term – will only serve to sharpen Bayern’s focus ahead of the teams’ latest tussle.
2) Relentless start to 2025/26 campaign
Let’s face it, anything other than a home victory would come as a surprise, even against a side of Dortmund’s calibre.
Bayern’s six straight Bundesliga victories speak for themselves, and they have been every bit as ruthless in other competitions.
After beating 2023/24 Bundesliga runners-up VfB Stuttgart in the Franz Beckenbauer Supercup, Kompany’s charges safely negotiated a tricky DFB Cup tie at Wehen Wiesbaden before kicking off their UEFA Champions League campaign with a 3-1 win over FIFA World Club Cup winners Chelsea.
They then put five past Cypriot side Pafos in late September to move top of the early league-phase table. Nobody looks like stopping this Bayern juggernaut any time soon, not even BVB.
3) Kane can’t stop scoring
The 2025/26 season is barely two months old, but Harry Kane will already have his sights set on breaking the 20-goal barrier against Dortmund.
The 32-year-old is currently on 18 goals in all competitions this term, while his tally of 11 strikes after six league matches is a top-flight record.
Against Werder Bremen on Matchday 5, the England captain became the first player this century to score 100 goals for a club from one of Europe’s top five leagues per UEFA coefficient, doing so in just 104 Bayern appearances.
Augsburg are the only team to stop Kane from scoring this season but, as Die Fuggerstädter discovered to their detriment on Matchday 2, shackling the striker is no guarantee of success.
The record title-holders still found the net three times at the WWK Arena as in-form trio Gnabry, Luis Díaz and Michael Olise all made the scoresheet.
And who set up two of the goals? You guessed it – that man Kane.
4) Sensational home record against BVB
Dortmund may have picked up four points from their last two visits to Munich, but the Allianz Arena has been fallow ground for BVB over the last decade.
Their win in March last year ended a run of nine straight Bundesliga defeats in the Bavarian capital, in which they conceded an eye-watering 37 goals.
Bayern’s biggest win in that time was a thumping 6-0 victory back in 2018, but they have also triumphed 5-0, 5-1, 4-0 and 4-1 since Dortmund’s 3-0 success in Munich in April 2014.
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Der Rekordmeister also beat their rivals at home in the 2020/21 DFL Supercup and the 2017/18 DFB Cup round of 16, with BVB’s only other victories in Munich coming in the last four of the DFB Cup in 2014/15 and 2016/17.
5) Neuer set to claim outright record
The latest instalment of Der Klassiker could be a particularly memorable for one Bayern player in particular.
At Eintracht Frankfurt last time out, goalkeeper Manuel Neuer marked his 529th appearance for the club by equalling Thomas Müller’s all-time record of 362 Bundesliga victories.
The former Schalke custodian has been one of Dortmund’s nemeses down the years, helping the Bavarians win 12 Bundesliga titles, five DFB Cups and two UEFA Champions League crowns – often at BVB’s expense.
It may be a little early to be thinking about further silverware, but taking the outright record from his former teammate against Bayern’s closest pursuers would be the icing on the cake for the 39-year-old, who has played every minute of their league campaign so far.
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