The ex-Germany star expects Bayern Munich to “fight back” from their indifferent start and launch a stern defence of their league crown <\/p>\n
Bayern Munich are still favourites for the Bundesliga title despite their indifferent start to the 2018-19 season, says Borussia Dortmund legend Sebastian Kehl.<\/p>\n
After four successive wins at the start of Niko Kovac’s tenure, Bayern failed to win any of their next three\u00a0to pile pressure on the new head coach.<\/p>\n
In that time Dortmund went from strength to strength under Lucien Favre, and they now lead the table two points clear of Bayern and remain unbeaten after nine matches.<\/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 Bayern arrested their mini-slump with wins over Wolfsburg and Mainz to ease the pressure on Kovac , their Bundesliga successes coming either side of a 2-0 Champions League triumph over AEK Athens.<\/p>\n And Kehl expects them to push on and re-establish themselves as title contenders in the coming months \u2013 even if Dortmund win their head-to-head meeting on November 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n “The problems Bayern have had will not last until the end of the season,” Dortmund’s head of the licensed player division told Sky .\u00a0<\/p>\n “They will fight back and continue to be favourites for the title, nothing has changed.<\/p>\n “[There is] still a long way to go.”<\/p>\n Next up for the Bavarians\u00a0is a DFB Cup tie against Rodinghausen on Tuesday, before a return to Bundesliga action on Saturday at the Allianz Arena against Freiburg.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Dortmund will be looking to bounce back from their disappointing 2-2 draw with Hertha Berlin on Saturday, when they face Wolfsburg away from home on November 3rd.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The ex-Germany star expects Bayern Munich to “fight back” from their indifferent start and launch a stern defence of their league crown Bayern Munich are still favourites for the Bundesliga title despite their indifferent start to the 2018-19 season, says Borussia Dortmund legend Sebastian Kehl. After four successive wins at the start of Niko Kovac’s…<\/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-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","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=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n