Bundesliga preview: Leverkusen, Hannover still chasing Dortmund

da mrbet： Bayer Leverkusen and Hannover will be desperate for a slip-up from runaway Bundesliga leaders Borussia Dortmund this weekend.Dortmund are 12 points clear of second-placed Leverkusen with nine games remaining, while Hannover are 14 points off the pace in third.Juergen Klopp’s Dortmund side seem certainties to win the title, and would surely need a calamitous form slump to miss out on claiming their seventh Bundesliga championship.They travel to the Rhein-Neckar-Arena on Saturday to take on ninth-placed Hoffenheim, who will be keen to atone for their 2-0 defeat at bottom-placed Borussia Monchengladbach last weekend.Hannover begin the weekend’s games on Friday when they travel to Cologne, hoping to build on their 3-1 win over Bayern Munich last Saturday, while Bayern – who announced that coach Louis van Gaal’s contract would not be renewed at season’s end – welcome Hamburg on Saturday.Also on Saturday, 10th-placed Schalke will look to gain some confidence from their 3-1 Champions League win over Valencia on Wednesday when they host Eintracht Frankfurt.Relegation strugglers Wolfsburg host Nuremberg at Volkswagen Arena, with the visitors looking for full points in their bid to secure European football next season, while Kaiserslautern will look to move out of the drop zone when they welcome eighth-placed Freiburg.Werder Bremen are also in trouble after a dismal campaign – sitting just three points clear of the bottom three – and they host Borussia Monchengladbach at the Weserstadion, with three points vital for both teams.On Sunday, Leverkusen have the chance to make up some ground on the leaders when they travel to fourth-placed Mainz and St Pauli will be keen to make amends for Saturday’s 5-0 drubbing at the hands of Nuremberg when they host Stuttgart.