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Peter Stoger's FC Koln host Borussia Dortmund at Rhein Energy Stadium on Saturday in what is supposed to be a routine Bundesliga clash. Dortmund and Koln sit at 2nd and 11th position respectively, with a massive 17 points gap between them.

Preview: FC Koln vs Borussia Borussia

Koln have scored only 16 goals in Bundesliga, the third worst in Germany, jointly with Werder Bremen. Their talisman, Anthony Modeste has a good run so far and has scored 6 goals in the league.

Meanwhile, Borussia Dortmund under their new coach Thomas Tuchel, are scoring whenever they want. They have scored 46 goals from 16 games, one more than Bundesliga Champions Bayern Munich. Aubameyang of Dortmund is the leading top scorer in Germany with 18 goals. Despite the awesome scoring charts, Borussia have lost twice, thus lagging behind Bayern in title race by 5 points.

Dortmund will be adamant to put on an emphatic display, and are sure favorites to win this game, although Koln being the under-dogs will try to cheer up their home fans.

Predicted Line-ups:

FC Koln: T Horn (GK), Hector, Heintz, Sorensen, Olkowski, Vogt, Risse, Lehmann, Bittencourt, Osako,Modeste.

Borussia Dortmund: Burki (GK), Hummels, Ginter, Papastathopoulos, Schmelzer, Gundogan, Kagawa, Mkhitaryan, Reus, Weigl, Aubameyang

Bayern Munich thrashed Koln 4-0 to make it ten wins out of ten league games this season. This was also Bayern's 1000th win in the Bundesliga since the start of the competition.

Arjen Robben returns for Bayern Munich

It is surely an impressive feat to have mustered up a thousand wins within the 53rd edition of the competition.

After their midweek loss to Arsenal, Bayern were back to their steamrolling best as they put four past a struggling Koln side.

Arjen Robben returned from injury for this game and wasted no time in getting himself on the score sheet as he opened the scoring for the Bavarians.

Koln goalkeeper Timo Horn was tested a couple of times earlier by Robben, Lewandowski and Muller but he was eventually beaten when Robben scrapped home after a goalmouth scramble.

Vidal doubled the lead soon after when he drilled home a pull back from Kingsley Coman.

Kingsley Coman continued to impress and Bayern's third goal came when the winger was fouled by Mathias Lehmann. Douglas Costa whipped in the resulting free kick and Robert Lewandowski was there to guide it home. With that goal, Lewandowski now has 23 strikes in 18 appearances for club and country this season.

Lewandowski was pushed over in the 77th minute for a penalty, and Thomas Muller made no mistake after stepping up to take the spot kick.

Bayern are now 10 points clear of second placed Borussia Dortmund, although they have one game in hand.

Next week Bayern will face Eintracht Frankfurt, who are currently 12th on the table.