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Eintracht-Bayern game to go ahead despite German train strike

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Muller and Weiser disrupt training with a golf kart (1:00)

The two players gatecrashed their side's session ahead of the Bundesliga clash against Eintracht Frankfurt. (1:00)

The Bundesliga match between Eintracht Frankfurt and Bayern Munich, under threat because of a four-day strike by the German train drivers' union, will go ahead.

The GDL union began the strike, called over pay, on Thursday in a move that threaten widespread disruption to the weekend Bundesliga schedule.

With Eintracht's Commerzbank-Arena only connected to the city centre by trains and not the underground network -- on which drivers are not on strike -- police and security officials voiced concerns over the situation.

German football magazine kicker reported that the match could be rearranged.

It said: "Police and security cannot give any guarantees that 1,000 coaches full of supporters travelling to the game can be parked in the broader commuting area of the Frankfurt stadium."

However, Eintracht said they were willing for the match to go ahead "after consultation with the sources of public safety and accountability."

They will open the stadium gates four hours before the match, two hours earlier than usual, and urged fans "to either pass on making the journey to the stadium by car" or to arrange car pooling.

With some 100,000 away supporters travelling to follow their teams in the first and second tiers of German football this weekend, most other fixtures are also affected by the walkout.

News outlet Spiegel reported that many away clubs had made travel arrangements for their fans.