Bayern Women visit Frankfurt in crucial game at the top | OneFootball

Matchday 15 in the Google Pixel Women’s Bundesliga sees leaders FC Bayern visit third-placed Eintracht Frankfurt. Kick-off at the Stadion am Brentanobad is at 1pm CET on Saturday. Here’s all you need to know ahead of the game in our preview.

State of play

Bayern booked their place in the DFB Cup semi-finals on Tuesday thanks to a 3-0 win away at Carl Zeiss Jena. Pernille Harder opened the scoring before Jovana Damnjanovic bagged a brace ahead of half-time. Die Frauen’s opponent for a place in the final is, by chance, again Eintracht in March at the FC Bayern Campus.

In the Bundesliga, Alexander Straus’s team last beat Essen 2-0 thanks to goals from Glodis Viggosdottir and Damnjanovic. It kept the defending champions top of the standings with 36 points and extended the team’s unbeaten run in the league to 31 matches.

The reverse fixture against Frankfurt took place in front of a crowd of 19,000 at the Allianz Arena.

Opponent: Eintracht Frankfurt

Frankfurt are third in the table with 26 points on the board. Niko Arnautis’s team have suffered back-to-back defeats to Wolfsburg (3-0) and Freiburg (2-1). However, they claimed a 4-1 win at home to Duisburg in the cup during the week to set up that semi-final clash with Bayern.

Team news

Straus remains without Carolin Simon (cruciate ligament), Weronika Zawistowska (cruciate ligament), Cecilia Ran Runarsdottir (kneecap), Ana Maria Guzman (knee), Tainara (illness) and Magdalena Eriksson (metatarsal). Franziska Kett is also unavailable due to a muscular problem.

Linda Dallmann in training for Bayern ahead of facing Eintracht Frankfurt.

Pre-match quotes

Alexander Straus: “Eintracht Frankfurt are a very good team who’ve been playing in the same formation for a long time, meaning we can’t underestimate them. Previous encounters were always very close, and we’re expecting the same on Saturday. But we believe in ourselves and our system, and know how we want to control, dominate and win our matches.”

Katharina Naschenweng: “It was good to have a game before Frankfurt with the DFB Cup. The training sessions also helped. We’re well prepared for the game.”

Read up on the facts ahead of the visit to Frankfurt:

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