SC Freiburg vs Bayern Munich Prediction: Both teams to score and Bayern to win

Bundesliga week 24 begins with out-of-form Freiburg taking a Bayern Munich side that has been disappointing this season. The match is scheduled for 1st March 2024 at the Europa-Park Stadion in Freiburg at 22:30 (GMT+3). 

Bayern Munich hasn't played well this season causing head coach, Thomas Tuchel, to leave his position in the summer. Bayern's bad for can partly be attributed to the many injuries the team has. With 11 games remaining, Bayern München is now in second position in the league with 53 points after defeating RB Leipzig 2-1 at home in their most recent league game. In the race for a Champions League position, Bayern leads fifth-placed RB Leipzig by 13 points and trails first-placed Bayer Leverkusen by eight.

With 29 points and 30 goals scored against, Freiburg is in ninth position. Der Sport-Club is now five points behind sixth-place Eintracht Frankfurt in the Conference League Qualifiers with 11 games remaining. Freiburg's winless run against Augsburg at WWK Arena ended in a 2-1 loss, bringing their record against the Bundesliga to five.

The teams' most recent Bundesliga matchup ended with Bayern München winning 3-0 at Allianz Arena in October. WIll the story change for Freiurg this time?

Freiburg won't want to replicate their past performance here after falling to Augsburg 2-1 in the previous round of the Bundesliga. In five of the previous six Freiburg matches, at least three goals were scored each game. In these matches, their opponents scored eight goals, while Freiburg scored thirteen. It will be interesting to see whether that pattern continues over here.

Freiburg is without a win in each of their last 15 league games against Bayern Munich. Freiburg is also without a victory in their last two league home games.

For this match, the host team is without three centre defenders due to injury. The players are Philipp Lienhart, Kenneth Schmidt, and Max Rosenfelder. After rupturing his cruciate ligament in the summer, Daniel-Kofi Kyereh is still out.

Possible starting lineup for Freiburg: Atubolu; Gunter, Gulde, Hofler, Kubler; Rohl, Eggestein, Grigo, Doan; Holer, Gregoritsch

Coming into this match, Bayern Munich is coming off a 2-1 Bundesliga 1 victory against RB Leipzig. We've seen 21 goals scored in the last 6 games that Bayern Munich has played, for an average of 3.5 goals per game, demonstrating their penchant for high-action encounters. Of this number, 11 have been managed by opposing teams.

In the seven league games that Bayern Munich has faced Freiburg away from home, they have never lost. There's little doubt that away supporters will have much to celebrate. Bayern Munich have lost their past two league games when playing away from home.

Undoubtedly, Bayern Munich's season has suffered due to injuries. Serge Gnabry and Kingsley Coman haven't been seen in a while. The wide players haven't been very effective on offence. With Sacha Boey and Noussair Mazraoui out at right back, Tuchel also has defensive issues. Joshua Kimmich is probably going to play a similar role in this game as he did in the previous game. Matthijs De Ligt is unavailable due to suspension.

Possible starting lineup for Bayern Munich: Neuer; Guerreiro, Dier, Min-Jae, Kimmich; Pavlovic, Goretzka, Muller, Musiala, Sane; Kane

After the winter break, Tuchel's team played nine games, but only two of those games ended in clean sheets. With an average of 2.89 goals scored in those games, it is possible that both sides will score and the goals will be over 2.5 in the match. 3.82 goals have been scored on average in Bayern's away Bundesliga games, with the Bavarians scoring 2.18.

This league season, Freiburg has only suffered two losses at home. Out of those 11 encounters, where goals have averaged 3.36, they have only failed to score in front of their supporters once. The current champions have been susceptible recently, despite Christian Streich's team's dismal record versus Bayern.

We expect Bayern to win, BTTS, and over 3.5 goals in this game.