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Borussia Dortmund vs. Bayern Munich 8/17/21 German Super Cup Soccer Pick, Odds, and Prediction

Borussia Dortmund vs. Bayern Munich
August 17, 2021 2:30 pm EDT
The Line: Over 2.5 -275, Under 2.5 +220
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Borussia Dortmund is welcoming Bayern Munich to Signal Iduna Park in the German Super Cup finals. Borussia has started this season with a nice win, and there are in good form. Bayern is still struggling, they are winless in their last 5 games, and they weren’t able to win their first game of the season.

Borussia Dortmund is on a 3-game winning streak during which they scored 11 goals and conceded only 2 goals, and they are looking pretty well right now. In their season opener against Eintracht at home, Borussia was the dominant team with 60% of ball possession, 7 shots on goal, 7 corner kicks, 6 big chances created, and a solid 85% of the correct passes. Borussia has scored 3 goals in the first half, and 2 more goals in the second half, and they ended up winning this match 5-2. Schmelzer, Bauza, Zagadou, Brandt, Meunier, Hummels, and Coulibaly are all injured for Borussia Dortmund. Even without all these players, Borussia is still a great team, they have a new head coach, and they are responding well to his ideas. Offensively, Borussia is one of the best teams in Germany and Europe with Haaland at the top, but their defense is where they need improvement.

Bayern still hasn’t won a game under the new head coach, but it’s only a matter of time. Roca, Pavard, and Fruchtl are injured, and they will miss this game for Bayern. In their season opener against Borussia M’gladbach, Bayern was the better team with 65% of ball possession, impressive 9 shots on goal, 8 corner kicks, 5 big chances created, and 84% of the correct passes. After conceding a goal early in the 10th minute, Bayern was able to score a goal in the 42nd minute, but that was all we saw from Bayern. Lewandowski has continued where he stopped last season, and he was the goalscorer for Bayern. The defense is Bayern’s biggest problem right now, but that will surely improve pretty soon. We all know what kind of team Bayern is, what players they have, and it might be a minute before they start playing well under the new head coach Nagelsmann. Once Bayern gets going, they will be hard to stop, and that is coming soon in my opinion, just in time for the Champions League in September.

This is one of the biggest games in Germany, and the first trophy of the season is on the line. At the moment, Borussia is in much, much better form on both ends, and for that reason, I will take Borussia in this game, but I think Bayern will score at least one goal here.

Goran Kucar's Free Pick: Borussia to win and Both teams to score +300

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Goran Kucar

I was born and raised in Croatia, and with that, I was raised with soccer all around me. I love playing soccer, watching soccer, and now I love writing and handicapping soccer at PickDawgz and SportsChatPlace.

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