Please not Munich again: Bayern would not be Bayern if they did not comment on the upstarts from Hoffenheim in their usual ironic style. When Hoffenheim travelled to Munich as league leaders in autumn 2008, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge asked: “1899 Hoffenheim? Where have they been hiding all these years?” We do not know.
What we do know is that Bayern’s 2–1 win in the top match on 5 December 2008 started a dreadful negative run for Hoffenheim in Munich. From eleven matches at the Allianz Arena, Hoffe took just two draws. Then came 5 October 2019, when the black run finally ended at the last Oktoberfest weekend, of all times, with Hoffenheim winning 2–1 in Munich.
At home, the balance sheet is not much better. Hoffenheim’s first of only two wins over Bayern in eleven years came as late as 2016/17. Against no other opponent had the Kraichgau club suffered more defeats than against Bayern by December 2019: 15.