The past week Bayern was having a series of test games against various teams to determine whether they are ready for the second half of the season. The first game was against Shalke 04. The clash of the German teams that are also competing in the Champions League resulted in a 5-0 victory for Bayern. Jupp Heynckes appears to have prepared the team well after the break so that now they are ready to face Arsenal in the Champions League and defend the first place in the Bundesliga. On Saturday, 12 January, Bayern Munchen faced the Swiss team on St. Jakob-Park in Basel. The Bayern players crushed the hosts with the classical 0-3 in front of 30 000 spectators. The goals in the net of the Swiss started in the 8th minute when the Croatian star of Bayern Mario Madzukic scored. Just 3 minutes later Schweinsteiger scored again and doubled the lead of the Germans. The last goal for Bayern was scored by the player of the French national team Frank Ribery just before the end of the first half. The last test game of Bayern was on 13.01 when they faced SpVgg Unterhaching from the 3rd Liga - the team where Tobias Schweinsteiger, the brother of Bastian, is loaned for a period of 6 months. Claudio Pizzaro opened the game with a goal in the 10th minute. The "Super Mario" of Bayern, Mario Gomez doubled the score in the 68th minute and formed the final result: 0-2. As these games illustrate, Bayern are more than ready for the season and the expectations are that they will preserve their form throughout the season, aiming at both the Champions League title and the Bundesliga, which sliped away from them last year.
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