The Bundesliga will raise the curtain this Saturday. The German competition will be the first of the major leagues to play football again after the break due to the coronavirus. The last game that was played was on March 7 with the Borussia of Mönchengladbach-Borussia Dortmund that ended with a 1-2 victory for the yellows thanks to the goals of Thorgan Hazard, brother of the Madrid player, and Achraf, player on loan from whites.
The Bayern Munich leads the ranking with 55 points after 25 matches and in the absence of nine days. The Bavarian team has led the classification in six days, the first the sixth and from the 20th to the current 25th. The Bayern He lived a season in which he came to go seventh, day 7, and in which he opted for a change on the bench, firing Niko Kovac after 10 days and taking over the team Hansi Flick. Bayern's irregularity has allowed Borussia Dortmund, 51 points, RB Leipzig, 50, and Borussia Mönchengladbach, 49, maintain hopes of fighting the title in the remaining nine days. The Bayer Leverkusen, 47, is a little further from the title fight, but not from the Champions League positions.
Bundesliga and Champions zone
Thus the games the following games seem key to decide the title and which teams play Champions and Europa League next season: Borussia Dortmund-Schalke (matchday 26), Borussia Mönchengladbach-Bayer Leverkusen and Wolfsburg-Dortmund (matchday 27), Borussia Dortmund-Bayern, Leverkusen-Wolfsburg (round 28), Bayer Leverkusen-Bayern (round 30), Bayern-Borussia Mönchengladbach and Schalke-Leverkusen (round 31), Borussia Mönchengladbach-Wolfsburg (round 32), RB Leipzig-Borussia Dortmund and Bayern-Freiburg (round 33), Freiburg-Schalke, Wolfsburg-Bayern and Borussia Dortmund-Hoffenheim (round 34).
Europa League
The fight for Europa League it is at two points. In an advanced position the Bayer Leverkusen with 47 points, two from Champions. In case of entering the maximum European competition it would make Borussia Dortmund, RB Leipzig or Borussia Mönchengladbach they will fall to the positions of the Europa League. The other two remaining places are disputed between Schalke 04, 37 points, Wolfsburg, 36, Freiburg, 36 and Hoffenheim, 35
Descent and playout
The Paderborn It is the most complicated team to avoid descending to the Bundesliga 2. The bottom of the German league has 16 points and has six playouts and 10 saves. The Werder Bremen It is the other team that occupies relegation positions. The four-time Bundesliga champion, the last in 2004, has one less game so if he beat Eintracht in the postponed game he would add 21 points, he would be one of the Fortuna Düsseldorf and five to Frankfurt and Mainz. The schedule for Bremen will be a Tourmalet where they will have to play against Freiburg, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Schalke 04, Wolfsburg, Paderborn in a more than decisive duel, Bayern, Mainz, direct rival and on the penultimate day, and Cologne to avoid relegation or play playout.
The calendar of Fortuna Düsseldorf it seems, a priori, easier to get out of the playout, not having to play for a place in the Bundesliga against the third in the Second Division (Hamburg) and put Mainz, Augsburg, Hertha from Berlin or Eintracht in their position. Those of Düsseldorf they will play Paderborn, Cologne, Schalke 04, Bayern, Hoffenheim, Borussia Dortmund, RB Leipzig, Augsburg and they will close the Bundesliga against him Berlin Union.