The Bavarians remain confident they can catch the Bundesliga leaders in the second half of the 2018-19 campaign, despite facing a six point deficit <\/p>\n
Borussia Dortmund may have enjoyed a strong start to the 2018-19 season but Manuel Neuer has not ruled out Bayern Munich catching the Bundesliga leaders.<\/p>\n
Dortmund hold a six-point advantage at the top of the table having won\u00a014 of their 18 matches,\u00a0losing just once.<\/p>\n
In contrast, Bayern have struggled for consistency at times, enduring tough spells in September and November \u2013 the latter including a 3-2 defeat to Dortmund.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n However, the six-time defending champions are on a run of six successive wins either side of the mid-season break\u00a0to keep the pressure on Lucien Favre’s leaders.<\/p>\n And Neuer believes Bayern can still catch Dortmund as they prepare for their first home match of 2019 against Stuttgart on Sunday.<\/p>\n “Dortmund are not unbeatable you know,” he told reporters at an Audi event.<\/p>\n “I think we saw weaknesses in the first half of the season, they did not leave many points behind, but on one occasion or another it was very close.”<\/p>\n Chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge agrees with Neuer’s assessment given the quality head coach Niko Kovac has at his disposal.<\/p>\n Despite Arjen Robben, Franck Ribery and Corentin Tolisso remaining on the injury list, the Croatian coach has managed his squad admirably to oversee a recent resurgence.<\/p>\n “We are not the hunted but the hunter,”\u00a0Rummenigge said. “Let’s just wait and see what happens.<\/p>\n “Dortmund has a good team, but we have not got a bad one!”<\/p>\n BVB are back in Bundesliga action themselves on Saturday, as they host Hannover 96 at Westfalenstadion.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Bavarians remain confident they can catch the Bundesliga leaders in the second half of the 2018-19 campaign, despite facing a six point deficit Borussia Dortmund may have enjoyed a strong start to the 2018-19 season but Manuel Neuer has not ruled out Bayern Munich catching the Bundesliga leaders. Dortmund hold a six-point advantage at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n