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BERLIN. — Bayern Munich, fresh from reaching the German Cup quarter-finals, tune up for next week’s finely-balanced Champions League tie with a trip to Hanover today.

Pep Guardiola’s men host Shakhtar Donetsk next Wednesday in the Champions League last 16 return leg, a fortnight after the first leg in Ukraine ended 0-0.

While goals were absent in Lviv, it’s been an altogether different story on the domestic front, with 20 goals in their last four Bundesliga run outs.

February wins against Stuttgart (2-0), Hamburg (8-0), Paderborn (6-0) and last weekend’s 4-1 defeat of Cologne have seen Bayern go eight points clear of Vfl Wolfsburg at the top of the Bundesliga.

If the match goes according to the form book and Bayern brush aside a Hanover team that is winless in 2015 then it will mark a personal milestone for Arjen Robben.

If the 31-year-old Dutch international makes an appearance he will have established a new Bundesliga record for a player of 100 wins in only 126 games. — AFP.