At the start of the season this would have been billed as a potential top of the table clash, but a quarter of the way into the season things cannot be any different. While FC Bayern head the table unbeaten on twenty-one points, erstwhile rivals Dortmund have got off to a catastrophic start and still just one spot outside the relegation zone.

While Bayern will be looking to extend their unbeaten record, Jürgen Klopp’s team will be hoping to turn their fortunes around in the Bundesliga, where they have suffered more defeats than any other team so far. Irrespective of the two clubs’ positions one will “Lüdenscheid-Nord” to come at Bayern with all guns blazing – more so now given that they will have next to nothing to lose.

Last year in this fixture at the Allianz Dortmund would roll over a flat Bayern side to win 3-0 – though by that time the Bundesliga shield was already safe back at the Säbener Strasse.

Plans are for this evening’s match to be followed by a small gathering – with some sort of Hallowe’en theme. It is appropriate that this should coincide with the Dortmund game – giving people plenty of opportunity to come along to the BB wearing their ugliest Kevin Großkreutz mask.