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Bayern's yardstick test

Reuters, Bertin
Bayem Munich have the chance to prove just how far they've come in 14 months under Ottmar Hitzfeld when they travel to
face Nuremberg in Saturday s Bavarian derby.
With nine games left to play, Bayem have a seven point lead at the top of the Bundesliga and with their rivals dropping points all over the place it looks a question of when, rather than if, they will wrap up their 21 st league title.
It is all a far cry from the start of February last year when Bayem reappointed Hitzfeld, the man who led them to the European Cup in 2001, to replace Felix Magath.
Hitzfeld s first match in charge was a 3-0 defeat away to Nuremberg, a wretched result and a wretched performance that revealed just how much trouble Germany's most successful club were in.
Bayem went on to finish fourth, missing out on a Champions
League place, but this season they have rediscovered their old swagger and are on course for a treble of league, German Cup and UEFA Cup.
"We started to have the look of champions," was the verdict of club manager Uli Hoeness, speaking to reporters after a 2-1 win over Bayer Leverkusen last weekend restored their seven-point lead.
“We're in a good position now, but we still have to be careful."
While Bayern have upped their game this seasonthanks in large part to how well new players like Franck Ribery and Luca Toni have doncNurernberg are in a sharp decline.
After winning the German Cup
and finishing sixth in the league last term, this season they are in desperate relegation trouble and sit second from bottom.
They can expect no favours from Bayern this time, according to Hoeness.
“We can't go to Nuremberg and hand out gifts to the neighbours," he said. ‘‘We want the title so we need to take points wherever we go.”
Behind Bayem, five teams are chasing the two other Champions League places.
Hamburg SV are in second spot on 46 points, followed by Bayer Leverkusen. Werder Bremen and Schalke 04, all on 44. VfB Stuttgart, last season's champions, are also in with a chance with 41 points.
On Saturday, Hamburg arc at home to struggling Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer host seventh-placed Eintracht Frankfurt, Werder are at home to bottom club Duisburg and Schalke travel to face mid-table Karlsruhe. Stuttgart arc away to Hanover 96 on Sunday.
Hamburg will be without the suspended pair of Vincent Kompany and Joris Matliijscn, after their sendings-off in last weekend's 1 -1 draw with Wolfsburg.FIXTURES
Saturday
Karlsruhe v Schalke 04, Nuremberg v Bayem Munich, VfL Bochum v Borussia Dortmund, Hamburg v Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer Leverkusen v Eintracht Frankfurt, Werder Bremen v Duisburg
Sunday
Hanover 96 v VfB Stuttgart, Energie Cottbus v Hertha Berlin