Bayern Faces Augsburg After Kompany Names Starting XI

FC Bayern Munich travels to face FC Augsburg in the Bundesliga with Vincent Kompany's lineup confirmed after the international break, as both teams prepare for the league meeting in Augsburg. According to Bild, the match features Bayern's starting XI and Augsburg's reshaped lineup under Manuel Baum.

Bild reported that Bayern begins with Manuel Neuer, Josip Stanisic, Dayot Upamecano, Jonathan Tah, Alphonso Davies, Joshua Kimmich, Aleksandar Pavlovic, Michael Olise, Ibrahim Saibari, Luis Díaz and Harry Kane. Five German internationals, including Jonas Urbig, Serge Gnabry, Tom Bischof, Nathaniel Brown and Lennart Karl, start on the bench.

Konrad Laimer is unavailable for Bayern because he became a father, according to Bild. Augsburg's confirmed starting team includes Finn Dahmen, Juma Bah, Chrislain Matsima, Maximilian Bauer, Youngwoo Seol, Massengo, Tim Rieder, Fabian Fellhauer, Arijon Ibrahimović, Rodrigo Ribeiro and Samuel Essende, as reported by FC Augsburg.

Stanisic highlighted the importance of the previous meeting between the clubs before the match, after Augsburg defeated Bayern last season. "I think some people may not have had that on their radar, but if we had not lost to Augsburg last season, it would have been the second championship without a defeat. That naturally hurts," said Josip Stanisic, Bayern defender.

FC Augsburg changed four positions compared with its previous match in Bremen, according to the club. Juma Bah and Youngwoo Seol make their first starts for Augsburg, while Rodrigo Ribeiro and Arijon Ibrahimović replace Michael Gregoritsch and Mert Kömür in the lineup.

Augsburg coach Manuel Baum approached the Bayern match with a focus on his own team's performance rather than the opponent's reputation, according to sport-in-augsburg.de. The club also entered the match with confidence from its previous season result, when Augsburg recorded the only Bundesliga defeat suffered by Bayern during that campaign, as reported by sport-in-augsburg.de.

Augsburg will be without Marius Wolf because of an infection and Alexis Claude-Maurice because of muscular problems, according to FC Augsburg. Anton Kade returns to the squad after recovering from injury, while Sima Suso receives his first call-up to the matchday group.

FC Augsburg's substitutes are Labrović, Gouweleeuw, Suso, Kömür, Gregoritsch, Keitel, Kade, Schnitzer and Ogundu, according to the club. Bayern's matchday lineup follows a previous defeat to Augsburg at Allianz Arena, where the hosts lost 2-1 last season, as reported by Bild.