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Bayern Munich will take another huge step towards the next phase of this season's champions league with a win over the Romanians, Cluj, tonight, as they have already chalked up wins against their 2 previous opponents in this season's champions league, Roma and Basel, and so they will be sitting pretty at the top of their group with 3 points against the Romanians and Munich goalkeeper Hans-Jorg Butt says a win tonight in the Allianz Arena is vital to shape the German champions season which recently had seen the club faltering and languishing in mid table in their domestic Bundesliga. With these hardships, gaining a qualification to the second phas early will surely boost the morale of last season's champions league runners up and Munich stopper, Butt is eager for the three points.
"We want to reach the next round and to do that, we have got to win our home games,'' he said."With nine points, we would be a long way clear and that would be a huge step.''
Bayern got their domestic campaign off the ground at the weekend, trouncing Hannover 3-0 with mario Gomez netting a hat-trick and he will be relied on heavily tonight to provide some needed firepower. "I am not going to replace a striker who has scored three goals,'' said Munich manager Louis van Gaal."I think he will score another goal tomorrow."
Gomez is an international player for Germany and does not want to give up his starting place easily and maintains he needs to keep up his good form. "I cannot and will not let up,'' he said. "It is not always going to be three goals, but I will always try to score in the next game. We have tanked up on self-confidence."
Louis Van Gaal is awaiting a similar approach to the game by Cluj as Roma adopted in their tie at the Allianz Arena in Munich of playing for a no score draw. The Germans eventually broke down the Italians with a mix of composure and determination and knows his side will probably have to repeat that attitude against the Romanians tonight.
"Cluj will come here and defend and maybe hope to get a goal on the counter-attack,'' he predicted. "They are an uncomfortable opponent. Hopefully we can get an early goal.''
Cluj have been greatly underperforming lately and at the weekend they were seen falling to a new low as defeat to Vaslui brought them down to 11th in their domestic league. The Romanaian champions find themselves lagging behind the top place with a 13 point gap opened between them and the high fliers and the chances of them getting their first win in Europe tonight are looking more bleak with 2 of their most important players, Gabriel Muresan and Edimar out with injuries. They will have to rely on giant striker Lacina Traore to find some spark up front if they are going to get something from the match.
Van Gaal knows the Munich players will have their work cut out to try and contain him, saying: "He is six-foot-six and he can move around well, he is strong with the ball and he is the player everybody aims for.''
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