Bundesliga Preview: Champions League places hot up

Odds and preview ahead of Bundesliga weekend

There are some hugely significant games at both the top and bottom of the league this weekend.

Third from bottom Stuttgart host seventeenth-placed Hannover on Sunday afternoon.

And there’s a key dual for European places as Eintracht Frankfurt play Hoffenheim.

However, our starting point is Borussia Park as Monchengladbach lock horns with Bayern Munich.

Borussia Monchengladbach v Bayern Munich (Saturday, 5:30pm)

Third-place plays second as ‘Gladbach entertain the champions on Saturday evening.

It was the home side that inflicted a second defeat of the season on Bayern in October.

New signing Alassane Plea opened the scoring on that occasion, and he’s 15/2 to repeat the feat.

Yann Sommer has kept the most clean sheets this season with 10. Gladbach to win to nil is 11/1.

As Borussia Dortmund play on Friday night, Bayern will know what they need to do.

Der FCB have won their last four league games on the spin and are 4/7 for victory.

In the goalscoring market Serge Gnabry is 11/5 to notch in a home win.