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Bundesliga Preview: Werder Bremen v Bayern

Ribery has not featured since cracking a rib in France's FIFA World Cup play-off victory over Ukraine last month, but returned from the bench against Augsburg in Wednesday's 2-0 DFB-Pokal victory.

Captain Lahm missed the Augsburg clash, as well as last weekend's win over Eintracht Braunschweig, due to a strained thigh muscle, but has been in training all week.

France international Ribery's return will be crucial as Arjen Robben is likely to miss out after he picked up a nasty gash on his knee having opened the scoring at the SGL Arena.

Guardiola can take comfort from Bayern's recent record over Bremen, though. The Bavarians are unbeaten in their last 11 against Robin Dutt's side in all competitions, and have won each of their last six encounters.

The Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal and UEFA Champions League holders have lost only one competitive match under the former Barcelona boss - July's 4-2 DFL-Supercup reverse to Borussia Dortmund.

They have also surpassed Hamburg's 30-year German top-flight record unbeaten run of 36 games and will reach the 40-match mark by avoiding defeat at the Weserstadion.

"That was an absolutely wild match," he said.

"The team once again showed a super morale and showed that we can come back at any time.

"Now we have to see to it that we don't first concede goals before we can get into the match and dictate the match ourselves more."