Bundesliga predictions this weekend: every fixture and our call
Nine games from Friday to Sunday, with Bayern Munich away at Elversberg. Every Italian kick-off time and our call on each fixture. Predicted line-ups land on Friday.
The Bundesliga plays from Friday 11 to Sunday 13 September. Nine games, and Sunday closes with Bayern Munich away at Elversberg.
Below is every fixture with the Italian kick-off time and our call.
Friday 11 September
20:30 Union Berlino v Schalke 04. Our call: over 1.5 goals, confidence 7 out of 10.
Saturday 12 September
15:30 Hoffenheim v Stoccarda. Our call: the away side to score, confidence 7 out of 10.
15:30 Borussia Dortmund v Paderborn. Our call: over 1.5 goals, confidence 6 out of 10.
15:30 Augusta v Bayer Leverkusen. Our call: the away side to score, confidence 7 out of 10.
15:30 Mainz v Eintracht Francoforte. Our call: the away side to score, confidence 6 out of 10.
15:30 Friburgo v Borussia Mönchengladbach. Our call: the home side to score, confidence 7 out of 10.
18:30 Colonia v Werder Brema. Our call: the home side to score, confidence 7 out of 10.
Sunday 13 September
15:30 Lipsia v Amburgo. Our call: over 1.5 goals, confidence 7 out of 10.
17:30 Elversberg v Bayern Monaco. Our call: over 2.5 goals, confidence 5 out of 10.
The games that count
Elversberg against Bayern Munich, Sunday at 17:30, is the familiar meeting of a small side and the strongest team in the division: our call is over 2.5 goals, but at confidence 5, the lowest of the round, because the sample is still short.
Augsburg against Bayer Leverkusen and Hoffenheim against Stuttgart, both Saturday at 15:30, carry the same call: the away side to score, confidence 7.
Predicted line-ups
They do not exist yet, and anyone publishing them today is guessing: managers speak the day before the game. This page is updated on Friday with a predicted line-up for every fixture, and again when the confirmed team sheets land, about an hour before each kick-off.
How to read these calls
Every call carries a confidence from 1 to 10, our measure of how solid the picture is: not a promise, a weight. On Monday, with the round closed, we count all of them in the recap, the ones that missed included.
Every game with our calls is on the Bundesliga page. The record of our settled calls is in the results history, and the individual calls are in player predictions.
