Ahead of Saturday\u2019s top-of-the-table clash, Borussia Dortmund defender Nico Schlotterbeck knows exactly how big a challenge awaits his side at the Allianz Arena. Schlotterbeck believes this Bayern Munich team is operating at a level rarely seen over the past two decades, and Borussia Dortmund will need to bring their best if they want to leave Bavariawith a result.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is probably the best Bayern team of the last 15 or 20 years.We\u2019ll have to put in a performance like we did in the first half today [against Bremen], then we\u2019ll have a chance. But of course, Bayern are the favorites. We\u2019ll go there without any fear. We\u2019ll put in a good performance and then we\u2019ll see what we can do. I\u2019m confident that we\u2019ll come out of it well,\u201d Schlotterbeck said (as captured by @iMiaSanMia<\/a>).<\/p>\n Schlotterbeck was also asked about Harry Kane winning the Ballon d\u2019Or, and he had no doubts about whether the Bayern striker deserved the honor.<\/p>\n \u201cAbsolutely deserved, yes. Very well deserved,\u201d Schlotterbeck remarked.<\/p>\n There you have it. Even the opposition knows what Bayern Munich are bringing to the table this season.<\/p>\n Now comes the fun part\u2014backing up all that praise on the pitch. Borussia Dortmund has confidence, but Bayern Munich has the Ballon d\u2019Or winner, a potent attack, and home-field advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of Saturday\u2019s top-of-the-table clash, Borussia Dortmund defender Nico Schlotterbeck knows exactly how big a challenge awaits his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[14412,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-953292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bayern-munich-bundesliga","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}