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Some of the best young midfielders in the world will once again strut their stuff in the Bundesliga this weekend when Jude Bellingham, Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz take to the field on Matchday 6.
FC Bayern München’s Musiala should be the first to showcase his talent when the league leaders visit promoted club SpVgg Greuther Fürth on Friday. Still only 18, the attacking midfielder is well on the way to becoming an integral player for both his club and country. Musiala already has eight caps for Germany as well as two goals and two assists in this season’s Bundesliga to go with two goals in the DFB Cup. The fast-moving and quick-thinking teenager started in the German champions’ 3-0 UEFA Champions League victory in Barcelona earlier this month, and he will be confident of getting another win at bottom club Fürth.
With 13 points from five matches, Bayern are currently ahead of VfL Wolfsburg on goal difference after the Wolves were held to a 1-1 draw at home to Eintracht Frankfurt on Matchday 5. Wout Weghorst, Lukas Nmecha & Co. will be hoping for their fifth league success of the campaign when they travel to midtable TSG Hoffenheim on Saturday afternoon.
A point behind the front two, Borussia Dortmund are away to out-of-sorts Borussia Mönchengladbach on Saturday evening. Dortmund have naturally been inspired by Bundesliga Player of the Month for August Erling Haaland, and the Norwegian scored twice for the second league match running in last week’s 4-2 victory against 1. FC Union Berlin. Haaland has seven Bundesliga goals already this term and is the league’s joint-top scorer along with Bayern Munich superstar Robert Lewandowski, but some of the 21-year-old’s even younger teammates are also in superb form.
American attacking midfielder Gio Reyna has two Bundesliga goals so far this season, while Jude Bellingham has a goal and an assist from his five starts. The two 18-year-olds are Dortmund’s present and future, and box-to-box central midfielder Bellingham seems to be getting better with every game. Already a senior England international, he enhanced his burgeoning reputation earlier this month with a goal and a match-winning performance in Dortmund’s opening Champions League game against Besiktas in Turkey.
Another swiftly improving 18-year-old is Bayer 04 Leverkusen attacking midfielder Florian Wirtz. He made his Germany debut at the start of September and has continued to star at club level since then. Wirtz created one goal and scored another in Leverkusen’s 3-1 win at VfB Stuttgart last time out, in the process becoming the youngest player in league history to have netted nine career goals. He has now scored in his last three competitive games – as well as his last three Bundesliga matches – and will look to continue that streak when his fourth-placed side host fifth-placed 1. FSV Mainz 05 on Saturday.
Also on Saturday, RB Leipzig will look to steady the ship when they host a Hertha Berlin team that has followed three defeats with back-to-back wins. Jesse Marsch’s home side started the week in 12th and with just four points on the board following their 1-1 draw in Cologne.
Elsewhere 1. FC Köln in seventh will travel to fourth-bottom Frankfurt, while it will be the meeting of eighth and 13th when Union welcome DSC Arminia Bielefeld to the capital.
Currently second last in the table, promoted side VfL Bochum 1848 will be out to recover from a 7-0 thrashing at the hands of Bayern Munich when Stuttgart come to town on Sunday. The final game of the weekend pits unbeaten SC Freiburg – currently sixth – against midtable FC Augsburg in Sunday’s late kick-off.
