A Draw is just the ticket for Bayern, Olympiacos

As FC Bayern München host Olympiacos FC on UEFA Champions League match day five with both teams knowing a draw will be enough for both sides to reach the last 16. A Victory will ensure Bayern, who are unbeaten in their seven games against a side from Greece (W5 D2), win the group.
Bayern prevailed 3-0 in Piraeus on 16 September, Thomas Müller scoring either side of a Mario Götze effort.
To wrap up the group, Olympiacos must triumph by a margin that would give them the head-to-head advantage. Previous meetings
The teams met in the 1980/81 European Cup first round, the Bundesliga giants winning both legs (4-2 away, 3-0 home). Bayern chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge scored in both games.
Match background
Bayern
The German title holders followed up their result in Greece by scoring five without a reply at home to GNK Dinamo Zagreb. They then dropped their first points in a 2-0 reverse at Arsenal FC before beating the same side 5-1 two weeks later.
Last term, Bayern reached the UEFA Champions League semi-finals for the fourth time in a row, winning all six games – scoring 22 goals – in Munich. Josep Guardiola's charges beat FC Shakhtar Donetsk 7-0in the round of 16, FC Porto 6-1in the quarter-finals and FC Barcelona 3-2in the semi-final but bowed out having lost 3-0 away.
Olympiacos
The Greek side, are in the group stage for the 17th time, won 3-2 at Arsenal on matchday two. Their first victory in England after 13th attempt. They then continued their good form by defeating Dinamo 1-0 at home and 2-1 away to join Bayern on nine points.
Last season Olympiacos finished third in Group A, losing all three away games. They went down to the UEFA Europa League and were defeated in the round of 32, succumbing 2-0 to FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk ahead of a 2-2 home draw.
It is the fifth time in 14 seasons that Olympiacos have been drawn in the same UEFA Champions League section as a German club. They have lost on five of their six visits to Bundesliga opponents – their solitary success came in 2007/08 when they won 3-1 at SV Werder Bremen. It was the only time in those six games that they managed to score.
A 6-2 victory over Bayer 04 Leverkusen in 2002/03 is Olympiacos' biggest UEFA Champions League win.
Coach and player links
Olympiacos No1 goal stopper Roberto saved Arturo Vidal's added-time penalty in last season's matchday three fixture against Juventus, who nevertheless won 3-2.
Alberto Botía made his Spanish Liga debut under Guardiola in Barcelona's 1-1 away draw against RC Deportivo La Coruña in 2008/09.
Robert Lewandowski scored in Borussia Dortmund's 3-1 loss at Olympiacos in the 2011/12 group stage.
Lewandowski struck in Poland's 1-1 draw with Giannis Maniatis' Greece in the opening match of UEFA EURO 2012 in Warsaw. Kostas Fortounis came off the bench for the last 22 minutes.
In the same tournament, Philipp Lahm scored Germany's first in a 4-2quarter-final elimination of Maniatis' Greece. Manuel Neuer, Holger Badstuber and Jérôme Boateng all started and Müller and Götze came off the bench.
David Alaba scored in Austria's 4-1 win against substitute Jimmy Durmaz's Sweden in a UEFA EURO 2016 qualifier in Solna on 8 September.
In the 2009/10 UEFA Champions League, Esteban Cambiasso's FC Internazionale Milano first beat Guardiola's Barcelona in the semi-finals and then Bayern in the decider.
Former Argentina midfielder Cambiasso's missed penalty in the 2006 FIFA World Cup quarter-final shoot-out against Lahm's Germany proved decisive after a 1-1 draw in Berlin.
Fortounis (1. FC Kaiserslautern, 2011–14), Omar Elabdellaoui (TSV Eintracht Braunschweig, 2013–14) and Stefanos Kapino (1. FSV Mainz 05, 2014/15) have played in Germany.
Have played together:
Botía & Thiago Alcântara (FC Barcelona B, 2008–09)
Manuel da Costa & Mehdi Benatia (Morocco).

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