A trip down memory lane

Claudio Pizarro will enjoy a special reunion on Saturday. The Peru international played 159 of his 367 Bundesliga games to date for Werder Bremen, scoring 89 times along the way. In turn, Bremen players Nils Petersen (nine Bundesliga appearances for FCB, two goals) and Mehmet Ekici (70 games for FCB Reserves) both have a Bayern past. And Toni Kroos could end up in a duel with his brother, Werder midfielder Felix.

Prolific Pizza Completes The Set

Claudio Pizarro’s goal in Braunschweig means the Peruvian closed a gap in his personal career record: going into Saturday’s match Pizza had scored against 17 of the 18 current Bundesliga clubs, but not against the Lions from Braunschweig. The strike takes Claudio onto 83 goals in the Bundesliga and means he draws level with Paul Breitner in ninth place in Bayern’s all-time top flight scorer roll of honour. In the same ranking for the Bundesliga, the league’s most prolific non-German player lies eighth with 172 goals.