This big fixture gets the weekend started in Germany, with defending champions Bayern looking to increase their two-point advantage over RB Leipzig at the top of the table. Hansi Flick's side have won their past three matches despite trailing in each of them, rallying from 2-0 down at half-time to beat Mainz last time out.
Opponents Gladbach have joined Bayern in the last 16 of the Champions League but are down in seventh in the domestic league, four points off the pace set by the top four. Victory over Arminia Bielefeld last Saturday ended a four-match winless run in the Bundesliga.
Gladbach (3-5-2): Yann Sommer; Matthias Ginter, Denis Zakaria, Nico Elvedi; Stefan Lainer, Christoph Kramer, Jonas Hofmann, Florian Neuhaus, Ramy Bensebaini; Lars Stindl, Breel Embolo.
Subs: Tobias Sippel, Michael Lang, Patrick Herrmann, Hannes Wolf, Jordan Beyer, Ibrahima Traore, Oscar Wendt, Laszlo Benes, Tony Jantschke.
Bayern (4-2-3-1): Manuel Neuer; Benjamin Pavard, Niklas Sule, David Alaba, Alphonso Davies; Leon Goretzka, Joshua Kimmich; Leroy Sane, Thomas Muller, Douglas Costa; Robert Lewandowski.
Subs: Alexander Nubel, Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, Jerome Boateng, Bouna Sarr, Lucas Hernandez, Marc Roca, Corentin Tolisso, Kingsley Coman, Jamal Musiala.
Bayern make three changes from the win over Mainz, with Sule, Goretzka and Costa all recalled. Boateng and Tolisso drop to the bench, while Gnabry is out with a shin injury. Gladbach are still without Marcus Thuram due to suspension and Alassane Plea misses the squad entirely.
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This will be the 105th game between Gladbach and Bayern in the Bundesliga. Only three other fixtures have ever been played more often: Bayern versus Werder Bremen (109 times), Hamburg versus Bremen (108) and Bayern versus Hamburg (106). Bayern have won twice as many games (50) as Gladbach (25) across these meetings (29 draws).
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