The Bochum players are now standing in a circle near the touchline, while some of the Bayern subs try to keep warm with some passing drills on the pitch.

The tennis balls thrown on the pitch have caused a stoppage to the match and now the players have come off the field and standing by the touchline. Not what anyone wants in horrible wet conditions.

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Protests are becoming a regular occurrence at Bundesliga matches.

Last week, Borussia Dortmund beat Freiburg in another Bundesliga game delayed by protests against an investment proposal by the German Football Association.

After 36 minutes, tennis balls and chocolate gold coins were thrown on to the pitch from fans in the Dortmund section to cause a 10-minute delay.

In December, a majority vote by German clubs approved a proposal to sell some Bundesliga TV rights in exchange for investment capital.

Supporters threw tennis balls on to the pitch during Bochum's 3-0 win over Union Berlin in December and there was a 12-minute stoppage during Heidenheim's 1-1 draw with Wolfsburg last month as part of league-wide protests.

On 20 January, Dortmund's 4-0 victory at Cologne was subject to an eight-minute delay with tennis balls and gold coins thrown on to the pitch from fans from both teams.

On Friday 9 February, there was also a protest during Hannover's 4-3 win over Hamburg in Bundesliga 2.

Hamburg fans chained six padlocks to the goal and netting at half-time, three locks to either post at one end, with the padlocks having to be cut off before play could resume.

In the Dortmund-Freiburg match, a number of tennis balls and chocolate gold coins were thrown on to the pitch behind the goal the hosts were defending in the first half.

We had protests in the Bundesliga earlier on today with remote control planes being flown around the stadium in the match between Freiburg and Eintracht Frankfurt.

The players were taken off the pitch, before they finally completed the match, which ended in a thrilling 3-3 draw.

We've now had a delay here as tennis balls have been thrown on to the pitch.

It is a horrible day in Germany with the rain lashing down and Harry Kane has just had his first chance, only to blast his shot well over the crossbar.

Bayern Munich finally get involved in the action and a chance falls to Jamal Musiala but he doesn't hit it cleanly and it is comfortably dealt with by home keeper Manuel Riemann.

It has been a bright start from the hosts and the ball is played in by Kevin Stoger and Anthony Losilla gets there but can only send the header just over the crossbar.

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The hosts have the first attempt of the afternoon, but it fails to test Manuel Neuer in the Bayern goal.

And away we go.

And things didn't get much better for Bayern as they then lost 1-0 to Lazio in the Champions League.

Bayern Munich manager Thomas Tuchel says individual mistakes cost his side in that match.

Watch highlights from last Saturday as Xabi Alonso's Bayer Leverkusen beat Bayern Munich in a massive game at the top of the Bundesliga.

Bochum have had a tough season and sit 15th out of 18 teams, but six points clear of Cologne in 16th.

This is their team...

Bochum XI: Riemann, Schlotterbeck, Ordets, Masovic, Bernardo, Stogger, Losilla, Asano, Oermann, Antwi-Adjei, Broschinski.

Subs: Luthe, Gamboa, Wittek, Loosli, Forster, Daschner, Kwarteng, Paciencia, Hofmann.

Harry Kane starts for Bayern Munich with Eric Dier among the substitutes.

Aleksandar Pavlovic is not in the squad because of a hip problem.

Bayern Munich XI: Neuer, Guerreiro, Kim, De Ligt, Mazraoui, Goretzka, Kimmich, Musiala, Choupo-Moting, Muller.

Subs: Ulreich, Upamecano, Dier, Aznou, Martinez, Lovro, Sane, Tel.

Hello and welcome along to BBC Sport's coverage of the Bundesliga match between Bochum and Bayern Munich. Kick-off for this one is at 16:30 GMT so let's have a quick look at the sides.

It has been a bad eight days for Bayern Munich. A 3-0 thumping at leaders Bayer Leverkusen and then a 1-0 loss against Lazio in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie.

Harry Kane's side are eight points behind Leverkusen in the German Bundesliga so can they get a much needed three points today?

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