Borussia Monchengladbach will play hosts to Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga matchday 1 on Friday. The kick-off is at 20:30 CEST.

Preview

While both forthcoming opponents enter the opening clash of the 2021/22 campaign in the German top flight with new managers in charge, it'll be the second official game for Adi Hutter at the helm of Gladbach. Borussia managed to defeat Kaiserslautern 1-0 in the first round of the German Cup on Monday to extend their winning streak to four consecutive matches across all competitions that includes a 2-0 friendly victory over Bayern two weeks ago.

The Bavarians, for their part, haven't had the greatest start to life under Julian Nagelsmann as they registered three losses and one draw in their four exhibition clashes this summer. Bayern were also due to face Bremer SV in the domestic cup ahead of the Bundesliga opener but the game was postponed due to the Covid-19 outbreak in the opposition's camp.

Team news

Mamadou Doucoure, Breel Embolo, Kouadio Kone and Ramy Bensebaini are all set to miss Friday's encounter for Borussia through respective injury woes while Bayern's Alphonso Davies, Kingsley Coman, Corentin Tolisso, Lucas Hernandez and Marc Roca have been ruled out their side's trip to North Rhine-Westphalia through various reasons.

Prediction

You shouldn't arguably focus on Bayern's pre-season results when predictiong an outcome of this fixture but the fact that they conceded 10 goals in their last four games certainly gives Gladbach some hope ahead of the current Bundesliga champions' visit to Borussia-Park. Even with some key absentees in their squad, the likes of Joshua Kimmich, Thomas Muller and Robert Lewandowski are all set to start for the Bavarians on Friday and thus we do expect Nagelsmann to kick off his official reign at the club with a victory in Monchengladbach.

Tip

Bayern Munich to win and both teams to score at 2.4 with 1XBET.