FC Bayern Women host Freiburg | OneFootball

FC Bayern Women play their second home game in the space of four days as they host Freiburg at the Campus on Tuesday for Matchday 4 in the Google Pixel Bundesliga (kick-off: 6pm CEST). Here’s all you need to know in our preview.

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After retaining the Supercup and kicking off the Bundesliga campaign with back-to-back wins, Bayern suffered their first setback of the nascent season with a goalless draw at home to Carl Zeiss Jena on Saturday. Despite a glut of chances, José Barcala’s side couldn’t find a way through.

It just wasn’t Pernille Harder and Bayern’s day against Carl Zeiss Jena.

Opponent: Freiburg

Freiburg come to Munich boosted by an impressive 6-2 win over Hamburg. Having also beaten Köln 1-0 following their opening 1-1 draw away at Werder Bremen, they top the table on seven points and +5 goal difference, only ahead of the champions by virtue of their eight goals scored to Bayern’s five.

There’s no other team the Munich Frauen have beaten more or scored more goals against in the Bundesliga than Freiburg. Bayern have won each of the last seven home encounters in the league and are unbeaten in 14 Bundesliga meetings.

Team news

Barcala remains without Barbara Dunst (recovery after cruciate ligament) and Magdelena Eriksson (knee issues). Stine Ballisager also misses out against Freiburg with a muscular issue.

José Barcala is expecting a greater sense of timing and more patience against Freiburg.

Pre-match quotes

José Barcala: “We’ve closely analysed the Jena match. We need better timing and more patience against Freiburg to find the gaps. We’re still working on that. Against Freiburg it’ll mostly be about having good positional play and good build-up.”

Linda Dallmann: “Unfortunately we didn’t make much out of our many chances against Jena. We want to be more clinical in front of goal again. The focus will be on our play. We want to be dominant, create lots of chances and be more ruthless. Freiburg are in first place right now. They’ve created a lot going forward and scored lots of goals. We struggled a bit against Freiburg last year. We want things to go our way this time.”

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