Bayern-Schalke do it again?

Two weeks before the championship, the real fun begins on Saturday for Bayern and Schalke 04, while opposed to each other in the Super Cup in Germany. The opportunity for the top two teams from the previous year to be calibrated and display their claims. The particular occasion of seeing up Raul, who scored twice against a few days ago in Munich.

The League Cup is over in Germany. The Super Cup in Germany has taken over since 2008, spending at the expense of Dortmund Bayern and Bremen, last season at Wolfsburg. This year, the leading club in Munich having completed the league and cup double last spring, Schalke 04, runner-up out of Germany, complete the poster. A real charity match pitting two of Augsburg top contenders next national consecration.

Ten days before the first round of the German Cup and two weeks of resumption of the Bundesliga, the opposing forces still are not quite balanced. Louis Van Gaal, the coach of Bavaria, has solved the globalists Germanic and Dutch make up the bulk of its workforce in early this week - discovering the passage of the unavailability of his fire-sprite Arjen Robben for two months. This time Felix Magath, his counterpart in the Ruhr, has already had time to review all its troops, except the goalkeeper Manuel Neuer the Mannschaft.

In his defense, Bayern, however, maintained a stable workforce during the offseason, with the only reinforcement of the international Leverkusen Toni Kroos. The Gelsenkirchen club with her happily hosted the summer transfer window, by poaching Erik Jendrisek Tim Hoogland, Christoph Metzelder, Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Atsuto Uchida and Sergio Escudero, not to mention one Magath this as "the largest transfer (s) has career "Raul, one of the finest triggers the Old Continent.

Magath: "It is already on the front of the stage"

Preceded by his good reputation on his arrival in Germany, the eternal Merengue has had the opportunity to delight regulars at the Veltins-Arena, complete with a double signing an assist against a Bayern bis last week in friendly match (3-1). A benefit of high-flying did not fail to seduce the assembly, after the conquered and victorious beautiful lob including executed by the Spanish. "It is already on the front of the stage. He brings a lot to everyone. It is a reinforcement of very high quality", says Felix Magath in the columns of Bild, relayed his enthusiasm by Christoph Metzelder, who had already rubbed in Madrid: "I was right: Raul suits perfectly to Schalke. It is humble and works hard. He tries to be in contact with young people and tries to help as he can." Raul will improve team level. "

The firm itself confirms the club's official website that he already feels like a fish in water in its new colors: "All my teammates welcomed me perfectly, which has greatly facilitated my integration. I am delighted to play in a team that has all qualities. My first goal is a typical realization on my part (a real goal fox surfaces, full of opportunism, ed). I dedicate it to all the fans who m have received an incredible way since I arrived in Gelsenkirchen. ' This is certainly a man whose Bayern should be wary Saturday night.