Great players with stacks of silverware and now coaches with stars in the ascendancy, Borussia Dortmund’s Nuri Şahin and Bayern Munich’s Vincent Kompany pit their tactical wits against each other in Saturday’s Klassiker.

BVB will be heavy underdogs in Der Klassiker but Nuri Şahin’s men can hopefully pull off an upset.

While German football is full of rich rivalries that appeal to locals, Bayern-Dortmund has become the Bundesliga's can't-miss match for global audiences.

Thomas Müller is no stranger to Der Klassiker, the Bayern Munich legend even describing Borussia Dortmund as his "biggest rival" in German football. bundesliga.com rounds up the thoughts from both sides of the Klassiker divide ahead of Saturday's showdown at the Signal Iduna

Bayern have been in sublime form in the Bundesliga. They are yet to taste defeat after 11 league games. Kompany’s men have stacked up wins while playing an attractive brand of win. The Belgian will look to maintain this good run of form in his first Der Klassiker as Bayern’s head coach.

The biggest fixture in German football is scheduled for Saturday, as Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund will face off in this season's first edition of Der Klassiker. Bayern Munich enter the derby game sitting in first place in the Bundesliga standings,