Stuttgart v Bayern Munich Match Result
The Bundesliga betting sites give Bayern Munich a 60% chance of landing a victory in this Friday night encounter. Vincent Kompany’s side have won seven of their eleven clashes on the road, drawing the other three and losing just once. However, they weren’t able to register any shots on target at the BayArena when meeting the champions recently.
The league leaders were able to claim a scarcely deserved goalless draw after weathering a storm although they were also far from convincing when easing past Celtic in the Champions League. Even so, Bayern are likely to be a popular accumulator selection for this Friday night clash and they’ll look to keep their pedal on the metal when it comes to the title charge.
Stuttgart are not to be taken too lightly considering this is a team that actually finished ahead of Bayern Munich in the standings last term. They were a point better off than their opponents after some excellent home form which saw Sebastian Hoeneß’s side enjoy thirteen wins and three draws from their seventeen games played on home soil.
This season, there has been a drop-off of sorts, with the team currently sitting seventh in the standings although there’s still a very real chance of qualifying for European competition again. Indeed, they will be aiming to overhaul RB Leipzig, Mainz and Freiburg above them and land a Champions League spot with Bayern, Bayer Leverkusen and Eintracht Frankfurt.
At home, there have been six wins and two draws from their twelve encounters. The team’s Champions League campaign wasn’t great as they finished outside the top twenty-four places and they were recently beaten 2-1 at home to Wolfsburg, although they did previously claim a 2-1 success away to Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga.
Goals Under/Over
The bookies are expecting a few goals to be scored at the MHPArena. They think a 66% chance applies to Over 2.5 Goals, with Bayern Munich being a team who can cover this goal line all by themselves in a match. The visitors have scored twenty-eight goals in their eleven away trips, with the league leaders also averaging more than three goals per game at the Allianz Arena which suggests that they can find the net multiple times here.
Stuttgart home games have also been largely high-scoring this term. There have been forty-three goals in the space of twelve matches, with the home side having scored a healthy twenty-six times and conceding on seventeen occasions. In four of the previous five matches, we have seen the game go Over 2.5 Goals.
Similarly, Bayern’s recent games have regularly seen three goals or more scored. There were eight successive games where this happened before a goalless draw against the champions.
BTTS
The BTTS Yes odds are exactly the same as Over 2.5 Goals for this German Bundesliga game. There aren’t too many occasions where Bayern Munich fail to find the net, with that goalless draw at Bayer Leverkusen being an outlier considering that the visitors had to play particularly defensively and survive something of an onslaught against spirited opponents.
Aside from this result, there were three goals scored against Werder Bremen and this came after bagging four against Holstein Kiel. In the reverse fixture, we saw Bayern thrash Stuttgart by a 4-0 scoreline, with Harry Kane breaking the deadlock in the 57th minute before the floodgates opened and the Bavarian side had ten shots on target. They have clear scoring power and will be aiming for a maximum haul here.
However, Stuttgart were able to win this fixture 3-1 this season and Die Roten have been able to score in their previous six home encounters. They had four shots on target for their 2-1 home reverse against Wolfsburg, with Stuttgart thrashing Freiburg 4-0 back in January and they’ll be aiming to pull off a win to boost their Champions League qualifying hopes here.
First Goalscorer
Harry Kane missed out on a German Bundesliga title last season although the former Tottenham Hotspur man is firing Bayern Munich towards a crown this time around. The England captain has twenty-one league goals on the board this season, with Kane virtually certain to claim the Golden Boot and he will be aiming to fire his team in front in this important clash.
There was recently a five-game scoring run for Kane, with seven goals coming in that splurge before drawing blanks against Bayer Leverkusen and Celtic. Leroy Sane could be a bigger priced alternative, with the German bagging two against Hoffenheim in January, while there were also December goals against Mainz and RB Leipzig.
Jamal Musiala has a double figure tally for the season and the German international is sure to pose a scoring threat, while Stuttgart will hope to see Ermedin Demirovic back among the goals, with the Bosnian having struggled for goals in the second half of the season and perhaps Nick Woltemade is a better option considering that the 23-year-old having nabbed seven goals in the space of eleven matches.