Bayern Munich, going to face Borussia Dortmund in the final of UEFA Champions League tonight, going to be an all German final, first time in the history of Champions league.

           Englishmen are going to eyewitness an all German encounter when two German sides are going to battle out at for the Champions league silverware at Wembley tonight while Bayern Munich is going to take another German side in the final of UEFA Champions League, it is the first time of Champions league history when two German sides clashed off in the final of the tournament.

                  This will be Bayern’s 10^th appearance in the European final & third appearance in last four years after the 2-0 defeat to Jose Mourinho’s Inter Milan in Madrid, then the acute disappointment of losing last year’s final against Chelsea by penalty shootout in their own den at Allianz Arena in Munich.

                 Meanwhile Bayern Leverkusen had won the trophy once before in their only appearance in the final on 1997 when the beat the Italian giant Juventus by 3-1 margin.

                  The Bavarians won their domestic Bundesliga title this year by getting past all opponents with a formidable 25 point margin. They claimed few more records as well, including most points(91), most wins(29 out of 34 games), biggest goal difference(80+) alongwith fewest goals conceded(18).

                Eventually this is also going to be the farewell match of current Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes  who would be replaced by ex Barcelona boss Pepp Guardiolla after the German Cup final against VFB Stuggart would be played on 1^st June so before ending his stint with Bayern he would like to make his side victorious.

                   The Bavarians known as European powerhouse, will start as a favourite, heavily depend on Mario Manduzkic, Arjen Robben, Thomas Muller & Bastin Schweinsteiger.

                     Bayern Munich's only absences are the two long-term injury concerns that they've had for a while. Toni Kroos had some faint hopes of returning for this game, but will not make the squad. He still has faint hopes of cracking the bench for the DFB-Pokal final next week. Holger Badstuber will be sidelined until December with a knee ligament injury.

                      In the other hand Borusiia Dortmund will start here as an underdog despite of hammering heavyweight Bayern by 5-2 margin in last year’s German Cup final.

                     Yet, no-one will discount Dortmund, who emerged from the group of death featuring Real Madrid, Ajax and Manchester City, and play the charismatic football that has become the trademark of their coach Jurgen Klopp.

                   ‘Energy, speed, aggressiveness, hard-but-fair duels, a lot of goal-scoring chances, hitting the posts and bar and a lot of corners, that’s what I call attractive,’ said Klopp.

                     He will heavily bank on their prolific scorer Robert Lewandowski who has singlehandedly hammered Real Madrid by scoring 4 out of 4 goals in the first leg of the semifinal. The Polishman scored total 35 goals for Borussia this season alongwith an incredible record of scoring 12 consecutive Bundesliga games.

                     They will miss the service of gamemaker Mario

Gotze in the midfield due to his thigh muscle injury who is all set to join rival Bayern next month for 37 million Euros, newly recruit Nurin Sahi is likely to take his place.

Probable Line Ups:

Borussia Dortmund: Roman Weidenfeller; Marcel Schmelzer, Mats Hummels, Neven Subotic, Lukasz Piszczek, Kevin Grosskreutz, Sven Bender, Ilkay Gundogan; Marco Reus, Robert Lewandowski, Jakub Blaszczykowski

Bayern Munich : Manuel Neuer; David Alaba, Dante, Jerome Boateng, Philipp Lahm, Javi Martinez, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Franck Ribery, Thomas Muller, Arjen Robben; Mario Mandzukic.

Referee: Nicola Rizzoli(Italy).

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