adminMUNICH. — Bayern Munich kicked off the Bundesliga season at home to Hamburg last night with captain Philipp Lahm eyeing an historic fourth-straight German league title for Pep Guardiola’s swansong.
The Bavarian giants show little sign of releasing their iron-grip on the Bundesliga trophy, which they have won for the last three seasons.
Now, they want to be the first German team to win four titles in a row.
“Nobody has ever achieved that, not even the towering team of the 70s,” said Lahm. It’s a great incentive, the players are thinking about it,” while defender Jerome Boateng added “we desperately want to do it”.
Bayern have lost midfield general Bastian Schweinsteiger to Manchester United and recruited Chile’s midfield dynamo Arturo Vidal and Brazil winger Douglas Costa, but Hamburg should not present a problem for the Bavarian giants.
They were pounded 8-0 on their last Allianz Arena appearance in February and Hamburg’s goalless draw at home to Munich last September was seen as a moral victory for the hosts after 4-1, 3-1, 9-2 and 3-0 drubbings in prior meetings.
Fixtures
Today
Bayer Leverkusen v Hoffenheim, Augsburg v Hertha Berlin, Werder Bremen v Schalke, Mainz v Ingolstadt, Darmstadt v Hanover, Borussia Dortmund v Bor. Moenchengladbach 1630)
Tomorrow
VfL Wolfsburg v Eintracht Frankfurt, VfB Stuttgart v Cologne — AFP
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