Online Watch Juventus v Maccabi Haifa live Streaming Uefa Champions League highlights Schedule result Football soccer match game video clips JustinTV UStream TVU SopCast Freedocast  * The Girondins have not won any of their last five European games and have won only one of their last five in Bordeaux.
* It will be the French club's 166th European match but they have never met an Israeli team before.
* Maccabi are unbeaten in three previous matches against French sides and earned a 1-1 draw with Paris St Germain in the 1998-99 Cup Winners Cup in their only game in France.
* Maccabi went through three qualifying rounds to reach the group stage, scoring 19 goals and conceding only four.
Reuters...Bayern were underwhelming in the first few weeks of the domestic season but there have been recent signs that Louis van Gaal's men are starting to click.
The arrival of Holland winger Arjen Robben from Real Madrid has coincided with the upturn in form with Bayern beating defending champions Wolfsburg 3-0 on his debut and following that up with an emphatic 5-1 win at Borussia Dortmund on Saturday.
Attention now turns to Europe and a tricky first test in Israel.
Rummenigge is hoping the players can pick up where they left off at the Westfalenstadion at the weekend.
He told the club's official website, www.fcb.de: "It's important we come out of the starting blocks well, which would give us security and confidence."
Rummenigge warned, however, that with Juventus and French champions Bordeaux also in Bayern's group, qualification would not be guaranteed.
He added: "It won't be easy to finish in the top two of this group.
"Haifa, Juventus and Bordeaux are all leading their respective leagues. We have to start this campaign on a positive note."
Bayern will be without strikers Miroslav Klose and Luca Toni but playmaker Franck Ribery could be fit to start his first game of the season.
Ribery handed Bayern a further boost on Sunday when he declared he was close to signing a new contract after a summer of speculation linking him with Real Madrid, Chelsea and Manchester United.
It had been rumoured Ribery did not see eye to with Van Gaal but his celebrations with the Dutchman after his goal against Dortmund would suggest any friction has been soothed.
Maccabi maintained their perfect start to the Israeli Premier League season at the weekend with a 3-1 defeat of Hapoel Ramat Gan.
Seventeen-year-old midfielder Eyal Golasa grabbed one of the goals to go with his double in Champions League qualifying.
"We had to fight hard to beat Ramat Gan, but all that matters is that we won," Golasa told the Jerusalem Post.
"I don't fear Bayern, this is only soccer. We will be meeting European giants in the group stage, but we know that in soccer everything is possible."