MUNICH (AP)-Bayern Munich at Manchester City as their biggest rival in Group A of the Champions League looks to expand his lead over expensive equipment assembled at their meeting on Tuesday.
Bayern has had an impressive start in both domestic competition and the Champions League. The club won 2-0 at Manchester City, while Villarreal drew 1-1 with Napoli at home. Napoli host Villarreal in the other match on Tuesday.
"If we win, we have a margin of five points above the city and would be a good start," club president Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said.
His club has set its sights on winning the title for the fifth time, especially since the end of the Champions League in May Bayern Allianz Arena.
"Since I'm here, I never knew one side of Bayern," said France Franck Ribery Bayern end Kicker magazine on Monday. "This is the best side of Bayern, who have never seen.
Bayern has had an impressive start in both domestic competition and the Champions League. The club won 2-0 at Manchester City, while Villarreal drew 1-1 with Napoli at home. Napoli host Villarreal in the other match on Tuesday.
"If we win, we have a margin of five points above the city and would be a good start," club president Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said.
His club has set its sights on winning the title for the fifth time, especially since the end of the Champions League in May Bayern Allianz Arena.
"Since I'm here, I never knew one side of Bayern," said France Franck Ribery Bayern end Kicker magazine on Monday. "This is the best side of Bayern, who have never seen.
"If we keep playing like this, we have a chance to play for the title."
Bavaria lost its first game of the Bundesliga season, but won the next six to open a lead of two points. He scored 21 goals and conceded one.
Bayern headhunters Egon Cordes said the city moves quickly once won the ball, "with great speed and pressure."
He chose as a player Samir Nasri "Additional Class."
City, which is a level in the Premier League, Manchester United, after six games, can not really afford to lose points at the Allianz Arena after leaving home in Naples.
"I think we can attack as we do at home," the city of Spain midfielder David Silva. "We stick to our principles football. We are not against changing our way of other equipment at home or away.
"The truth is that Napoli played very well against us, are a strong team, but against Bayern, we will try the same thing -... To keep the ball, play with the same style and get a positive result"
The strikers from the city of Edin Dzeko and Sergio Aguero scored 15 goals between them this season, but Bayern players believe in their own forces.
"The way we played, we can lose only by our own actions," said Philipp Lahm Bayern captain.
Last victim of Bayern in the Bundesliga, the Champions League was fellow participant Bayer Leverkusen, which was swept 3-0 in convincing style on Saturday as the director Rudi Voeller said Jupp Heynckes Leverkusen team is playing in Barcelona and Real Madrid .
"It will be hard to beat us if we play like that," Bayern midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger said. "But Tuesday's game will be our biggest challenge so far this season."
Napoli will make his home debut in the Champions League in the last appeared in the old Europe Cup after Diego Maradona led the club in the southern Italian titles in 1987 and 1990.
Napoli have had an up and down season so far, 1-1 against Manchester City in their first match and the Champions League by defeating AC Milan 3-1 with a hat-trick of Edinson Cavani, but loses 1 - 0 Chievo Verona at home and drawing 0-0 with Fiorentina on Saturday.
Supported by some of the most dedicated fans in Italy, in Naples, there is great potential attack with Marek Hamsik, Ezequiel Lavezzi and Cavani, known as the "Three Tenors".
Villarreal striker Giuseppe Rossi is questionable.
Rossi will travel with the team, but it would be "a last-minute decision" on whether the Italian international player after injuring his left knee during the 1-1 draw at Athletic Bilbao Sunday.
Villarreal also said that Rossi is a possible replacement Marco Ruben will be out for three weeks after injuring his left foot.
The Brazilian striker Nilmar could be called in attack by Javier Camunas Rossi is not playing. The midfielder Borja Valero is suspended.
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