Bayern braced for Anderlecht visit
• FC Bayern München will once again be looking to settle a challenging home record as they flog off Group B opposite RSC Anderlecht – although story gives them reason to be heedful of a Belgian side.
• The German bar were on a record 17-game winning strain during home in a UEFA Champions League before a 2-1 detriment opposite contingent champions Real Madrid CF in final season’s quarter-final initial leg.
• That set adult Bayern’s rejecting – the initial time a Munich giants had unsuccessful to strech a semi-finals or improved given 2010/11.
• Anderlecht are in a organisation theatre for a initial time given 2014/15, when they came third in their section. They had finished bottom of a pool in their 7 prior organisation theatre campaigns given reaching a final 16 (i.e. subordinate for a second organisation stage) in 2000/01.
Previous meetings
• Bayern have won 5 of a teams’ 10 meetings, nonetheless Anderlecht triumphed in a final – for their third feat overall. Goals from Akın Serhat (20) and Olexandr Yakovenko (35) cumulative a 2-1 success in Munich in a 2007/08 UEFA Cup turn of 16 second leg notwithstanding Lúcio’s ninth-minute opener for Bayern – though a German side absolutely progressed carrying won 5-0 in Brussels, Franck Ribéry scoring a final goal.
• The line-ups during a Fußball Arena München on 12 Mar 2008 were:
Bayern: Rensing, Sagnol, Lúcio, Breno, Lahm, José Sosa, Ottl (Schlaudraff 72), Van Bommel, Kroos (Ribéry 46), Podolski, Klose (Hamit Altıntop 87).
Anderlecht: ZÃtka (Schollen 46), Gillet, Saré, Juhász, Deschacht, Yakovenko (Boussoufa 66), De Man, Biglia, Hassan, Goor, Serhat (Gillis 90).
• That was Bayern’s initial home improved by Belgian visitors; they had won all 6 prior games, scoring 13 goals and surrender two.
• Anderlecht won their initial dual home matches opposite Bayern, though that 2008 feat was their initial success in 6 games, home and divided (D2 L3).
• The dual clubs initial met in a UEFA Super Cup in Aug 1976. Gerd Müller scored twice in Bayern’s 2-1 first-leg win in Munich, though Anderlecht incited it turn with a 4-1 delight in a return, Rob Rensenbrink concealment twice.
• The Belgian side also won a subsequent tie, retrieving another 2-1 divided necessity with a 2-0 home win in a 1985/86 European Champion Clubs’ Cup quarter-finals. Bayern triumphed during a same theatre of a same foe a following year (5-0 home, 2-2 away) and had a improved of a teams’ encounters in a 2003/04 UEFA Champions League organisation stage, with Bayern’s new sporting executive Hasan Salihamidžić personification in both games. The pair drew 1-1 in Belgium before Bayern’s Roy Makaay got a only idea from a chastisement mark in Munich.
Match background
Bayern
• Bayern competent for a organisation theatre after winning their fifth true Bundesliga pretension in 2016/17. The German side have been in a knockout theatre each year given 2007/08.
• The Munich bar won all 16 of their European home matches between 17 Sep 2014 and 15 Feb this year; a detriment to Madrid in a quarter-finals was their initial retreat in Munich given a 4-0 improved by a same opponents in their 2013/14 semi-final second leg.
• Carlo Ancelotti’s organisation came second in their organisation behind Club Atlético de Madrid in 2016/17 – the initial time they had unsuccessful to win their territory given 2009/10. They kick Arsenal FC 10-2 on sum in a turn of 16, usually to lose 6-3 over dual legs to Madrid.
• Bayern have won all 9 organisation home games given a 3-2 retreat during a hands of Manchester City FC on matchday 6 in 2013/14.
• Their altogether record opposite Belgian clubs is W8 D3 L3; during home it is W6 D0 L1.
Anderlecht
• Anderlecht are contesting a organisation theatre for a 12th time in total. They competent automatically after alighting a 34th Belgian pretension final term.
• In 2016/17, Anderlecht crashed out to FC Rostov in a UEFA Champions League third subordinate round. Moving into a UEFA Europa League, they went all a approach to a final 8 – their initial European quarter-final given losing to FC Internazionale Milano in a 1996/97 UEFA Cup – eventually bowing out to Manchester United FC (1-1 home, 1-2 away).
• Anderlecht have not won an divided diversion in a UEFA Champions League, organisation theatre to final, given a 1-0 feat during Real Betis Balompié on 6 Dec 2005. Their divided record given afterwards reads D8 L4.
• The Brussels outfit drew 1-1 during 1. FSV Mainz 05 in final season’s UEFA Europa League organisation stage, winning 6-1 during home.
• Anderlecht won their initial 3 divided games opposite German opposition, though that 2008 feat during Bayern was their initial given Oct 1977 (D2 L10 in a meantime).
• Anderlecht’s altogether record opposite German sides is W13 D5 L17; in Germany, W4 D2 L11.
Coach and actor links
• Anderlecht manager René Weiler coached 1. FC Nürnberg in a 2. Bundesliga in Germany from 2014 to 2016.
• Massimo Bruno also spent 2015/16 in a 2. Bundesliga, with RB Leipzig.
• Mats Hummels was a late surrogate when Borussia Dortmund won 3-0 during Anderlecht in a 2014/15 UEFA Champions League organisation stage.
• Javi MartÃnez’s Athletic Club were knocked out of a 2009/10 UEFA Europa League turn of 32 by Anderlecht (1-1 home, 0-4 away).
• Åukasz Teodorczyk and Robert Lewandowski are Poland team-mates.
• Lewandowski struck twice in Poland’s 3-0 FIFA World Cup subordinate feat in Romania in Nov 2016. Nicolae Stanciu and Alexandru Chipciu featured for Romania both afterwards and in a Jun 2017 return, in that Lewandowski combined a hat-trick in a 3-1 Polish triumph.
• Stanciu scored and supposing an support in Romania’s 3-2 accessible win opposite Arturo Vidal’s Chile on 13 Jun this year.