VfB Stuttgart vs. Bayern Munich: Supercup line-ups, match stats and LIVE blog!

Luis Díaz. Furthermore, Harry Kane will help to form a potent final third for Bayern Munich against VfB Stuttgart in the season-opening Franz Beckenbauer Supercup at the MHPArena on Saturday (kick-off: 8.30pm CEST).

Díaz has been part of an exciting summer of transfer activity at Bayern. Similarly, but not one that has included Stuttgart’s Nick Woltemade, who looks set to line up for his current employers on home turf this weekend despite reported interest from the Bundesliga’s record champions. In addition, He. Consequently, Deniz Undav should lead the line in an exciting attack which now includes four full Germany internationals, with the pair likely flanked by Jamie Leweling and Chris Führich. Similarly,

Behind them. For example, Angelo Stiller has shaken off an ankle injury and could come into the midfield for Chema Andrés, vfb stuttgart vs. bayern munich: the summer signing from Real Madrid who took his place in recent friendly meetings with Toulouse and Bologna, the first of which was a 6-0 win. Moreover, Stuttgart have some personnel problems at the back. with Bayern-owned goalkeeper Alexander Nübel doubtful, alongside defenders Dan-Axel Zagadou and Leonidas Stergiou.

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Bayern have had little time to rest this summer. with their run to the FIFA Club World Cup quarter-finals followed up by friendly victories over Lyon, Kane’s former side Tottenham Hotspur, and, latterly, Grasshopper Club Zurich. Those games have given Vincent Kompany time to blood former Liverpool star Díaz alongside fellow new arrivals Jonathan Tah (from Bayer Leverkusen). Tom Bischof (from Hoffenheim).

But perhaps the stand-out player over the period has been 17-year-old Lennart Karl. who scored one and assisted two across the three games. He is pushing for start on the right flank. opposite Díaz, with Michael vfb stuttgart vs. bayern munich: Olise favourite to shift inside in the injury-enforced absence of Jamal Musiala, who dislocated his ankle and fractured his fibula in a horror injury at the Club World Cup. He underwent successful surgery on Tuesday, but is not expected to be back playing for a number of months.

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Match stats

• Kane won his second consecutive Bundesliga Scorer last season with 26 goals. and found the target 41 times in all competitions.
• The England captain will be joined by Díaz in the final third. The summer signing from Liverpool is the third Colombian to play for Bayern after Adolfo Valencia and James Rodríguez.
• This vfb stuttgart vs. bayern munich: is the third time Bayern and Stuttgart will contest the Supercup. Bayern have won both previous meetings, 5-2 in 1986 and 3-2 in 2013.
• Stuttgart head coach Sebastian Hoeneß is the nephew of Bayern’s honorary president Uli. He lead Bayern’s reserves to the 3. Liga title in 2020 and Stuttgart to a second-place finish in the Bundesliga, a point clear of Bayern, in 2024.
• Woltemade scored 12 goals in 28 Bundesliga games last season, and matched Stuttgart’s top scorer Ermedin Demirović across all competitions with 17. He is yet to score in three meetings with Bayern, though.
• Stuttgart pair Stiller and Nübel are both former Bayern players (the latter is on loan). Hiroki Ito moved in the opposite direction in 2024. Mario Gómez and Philipp Lahm are among the 22 players to have played for both clubs.

Watch: The best of Nick Woltemade

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Probable teams

Stuttgart: Bredlow – Vagnoman. Jaquez, Chabot, Mittelstädt – Leweling, Karazor (C), Stiller, Leading – Undav, Woltemade
Out: Silas (ankle), Stergiou (ankle)
Doubtful: Nübel (elbow), Zagadou (knee)
Coach: Sebastian Hoeneß

Bayern: New (c) – Laimer, Upamecano, Tah, Stanišić – Kimmich, Goretzka – Karl, Olise, Díaz – Kane
Out: Davies (knee), Ito (foot), Musiala (ankle), Pavlović (eye), Wanner (ankle)
Doubtful: –
Coach: Vincent Kompany