"I hope the fans will receive me well, because I always was and still am an honest player," Lincoln said.
In other matches, third-placed Stuttgart (34 points) is home to Nuremberg and will be eager to use any mishaps by Bayern or Schalke, while fourth-place Wolfsburg (30), losers in four of its last five matches, is away to last-place Freiburg.
Also Saturday, Hamburger SV hopes to bounce back from a 3-0 drubbing at the hands of Bayern when it hosts Mainz, which has lost four straight and plummted to 12th after holding a place fifth or higher for as many as seven weeks earlier this season.
Arminia Bielefeld hosts Hannover and Borussia Dortmund plays Borussia Moenchengladbach in the other Saturday matches.
On Sunday, defending champion Werder Bremen hosts Hansa Rostock. After losing at Schalke 2-1 last week, Bremen has slipped to seventh place and is nine points behind the leaders.
Nine-year-old Brazilian soccer player Jean Carlos Cherao is attracting interest from Manchester United and other top European teams.
Jean, 1.37m and 34kg, plays for the youth teams of Associacao Desportiva Atletica, a small club in the southern Brazilian state of Parana.
"Seven or eight European clubs have already contacted us to know more about Jean," team president Adilson Batista Prado said in a telephone interview on Thursday. "They want to know what he is all about, and I tell them he's a phenomenon, probably the best player to come out of Brazil."
Prado and team officials would not identify all the clubs interested in Jean, but confirmed that representatives of Manchester United have asked for videotapes of his matches.
Prado said teams from Portugal, France and Germany have made contact, and local media identified FC Porto as one of the teams.
The club said the European clubs haven't made official offers yet, but some have asked for permission to send representatives, and others have invited the midfielder and his family to go to Europe.
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