Bayern Munich remain winless in four pre-season matches under Julian Nagelsmann, despite a dominant first-half display in an eventual 3-0 defeat to Napoli.

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After a 2-0 defeat to Borussia Mönchengladbach, a 2-2 draw with Dutch champions Ajax and a 3-2 loss to Cologne, new Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann has at his disposal his strongest side of pre-season so far. Record-breaking 2020/21 top-scorer Lewandowski returns to lead the line, one of a number of UEFA Euro 2020 stars now back from their post-tournament breaks to feature. Although Germany internationals Joshua Kimmich and Manuel Neuer remain away, compatriots Leon Goretzka, Leroy Sane and Niklas Süle all start, as do French pair Benjamin Pavard. and Kingsley Coman. Their fellow Frenchmen Lucas Hernandez and Corentin Tolisso miss out, however. Alphonso Davies is sidelined, but Chris Richards makes the bench alongside summer arrival Omar Richards.

Napoli have a new man in charge themselves, with Luciano Spalletti appointed ahead of the new campaign in place of outgoing head coach Gennaro Gattuso. Spalletti was dealt a pre-season blow this week in the form of injury to one-cap Germany international Diego Demme, with the former Arminia Bielefeld, Paderborn and RB Leipzig player spraining his knee in Saturday's 1-0 victory over Pro Vercelli. UEFA Euro 2020 winning trio Lorenzo Insigne, Giovanni Di Lorenzo and Alex Meret are all still enjoying a well-earned break, as is goalkeeper David Ospina after finishing third at this summer's Copa America tournament. Hirving Lozano and Dries Mertens are two more big names that miss out for the Italians, who will look to Nigeria international Victor Osimhen - who made his professional debut in the Bundesliga with Wolfsburg - to power them in attack.

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• Lewandowski scored a record 41 goals in 29 Bundesliga outings last term, breaking Gerd Müller's 49-year-old best-mark of 40 strikes in a single season.
• Of Nagelsmann's 32 European meetings as a coach (26 in the UEFA Champions League, six in the Europa League), not once has he faced Italian opposition.
• These teams have met four times in competitive fixtures, with the overall results split down the middle after a win apiece and two draws. A Diego Maradonna-inspired Napoli did, however, get the better of Bayern over two legs in the semi-final of the 1988/89 UEFA Cup before beating VfB Stuttgart in the final to claim the Naples outfit's sole European triumph in their history.
• Demme played in five of Leipzig's six matches en route to the DFB Cup final in 2018/19 but was an unused substitute for the 3-0 defeat to Bayern in the showpiece.
• Osimhen featured 16 times for Wolfsburg - 14 in the Bundesliga - without finding the back of the net for the Wolves.
• One of those appearances came in the final minute of the 2016/17 Bundesliga promotion/relegation playoff second-leg as Wolfsburg secured survival with 2-0 aggregate win over Eintracht Braunschweig.

CONFIRMED line-ups

Bayern: Ulreich - Pavard, Upamecano, Nianzou, Stanisic - Goretzka, Musiala - Sane, Gnabry, Coman - Lewandowski
Subs: Hoffmann, O. Richards, Choupu-Moting, C. Richards, Cuisance, Sarr, Scott, Vidovic, Tillman, Arrey-Mbi, Rhein, Lawrence, Sieb
Out: Davies (ankle), Früchtl (collarbone), Hernandez (knee), Roca (ankle), Tolisso (not included)
Coach: Julian Nagelsmann

Napoli: Contini - Malcuit, Manolas, Koulibaly (c), Rui - Lobotka, Zielinski - Zedadka, Elmas, Politano - Osimhen
Subs: Boffelli, Idasiak, Costa, Rrahmani, Zanoli, Gaetano, Machach, Ounas, Tutino
Out: Demme (knee), Ghoulam (knee), Lozano (concussion), Mertens (shoulder)
Coach: Luciano Spalletti