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VfB Stuttgart vs Bayern Munich

Competition – German Bundesliga

Stadium – MHPArena

Date: 28th February 2025

Kick-off time – 19:30 GMT

Bayern Munich will look to continue what has been an impressive run of form when they travel to the MHP Arena to face Stuttgart in the first game of Round 24 of the 2024/25 Bundesliga season.

Stuttgart come into this tie looking to return to winning ways after another disappointing outing. The hosts’ bid to return to the Champions League next season has stalled in recent weeks, with their last five Bundesliga matches returning just a single victory (D1, L3).

Sebastian Hoeneß’s men gave up the lead in a 1-1 draw with Hoffenheim last week to fall three points behind the top four, with this meeting with the high-flying Bayern Munich threatening to widen that gap. This is because the Swabians have won just one of the last 11 H2Hs (D2, L8).

That win came in last season’s corresponding fixture, helping Stuttgart eventually finish above Bayern. But Stuttgart’s confidence in repeating that will have been dented by back-to-back Bundesliga home defeats against sides starting the round immediately below them.

Still, the fact that Stuttgart haven’t lost three successive league matches on their own turf since February 2022 suggests that redemption could be on the way.

Meanwhile, Bayern Munich head into this clash with the weight of history behind them, having claimed a competition-record 70 H2H wins over Stuttgart. That record includes a heavy 5-0 win in the reverse fixture.

The Bavarians’ fearsome attack is likely to fire them towards another success here, as their 69 goals scored from 23 matches in the Bundesliga this term is the second-highest tally at this stage in competition history.

Vincent Kompany’s side are unstoppable in the Bundesliga this term. An emphatic 4-0 win over third-placed Eintracht Frankfurt last week restored their eight-point lead over defending champions Bayer Leverkusen at the summit. With just 11 games to go, it would take an astonishing collapse for the Rekordmeister not to claim a 34th title.

Other fixtures taking place this week in the German Bundesliga:

March 28, 2025
Bayer 04 Leverkusen 20:30 VFL Bochum
March 29, 2025
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 15:30 Augsburg 1907
Wolfsburg 15:30 Heidenheim
Borussia Mönchengladbach 15:30 RB Leipzig
Holstein Kiel 15:30 Werder Bremen
Bayern Munich 15:30 FC St. Pauli
Eintracht Frankfurt 18:30 Stuttgart
March 30, 2025
SC Freiburg 13:30 Union Berlin
Borussia Dortmund 15:30 Mainz
April 4, 2025
Augsburg 1907 18:30 Bayern Munich
April 5, 2025
Mainz 13:30 Holstein Kiel
VFL Bochum 13:30 Stuttgart
RB Leipzig 13:30 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
SC Freiburg 13:30 Borussia Dortmund
Heidenheim 13:30 Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Werder Bremen 16:30 Eintracht Frankfurt
April 6, 2025
FC St. Pauli 13:30 Borussia Mönchengladbach
Union Berlin 15:30 Wolfsburg
April 11, 2025
Wolfsburg 18:30 RB Leipzig

German Bundesliga Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Bayern Munich 26 19 5 2 75 24 +51 62
2 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 26 16 8 2 59 33 +26 56
3 Mainz 26 13 6 7 44 28 +16 45
4 Eintracht Frankfurt 26 13 6 7 54 40 +14 45
5 RB Leipzig 26 11 9 6 41 33 +8 42
6 SC Freiburg 26 12 6 8 36 38 -2 42
7 Borussia Mönchengladbach 26 12 4 10 43 40 +3 40
8 Wolfsburg 26 10 8 8 49 40 +9 38
9 Augsburg 1907 26 10 8 8 29 35 -6 38
10 Stuttgart 26 10 7 9 47 43 +4 37
11 Borussia Dortmund 26 10 5 11 45 41 +4 35
12 Werder Bremen 26 9 6 11 40 53 -13 33
13 Union Berlin 26 7 6 13 23 39 -16 27
14 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 26 6 8 12 32 48 -16 26
15 FC St. Pauli 26 7 4 15 20 30 -10 25
16 VFL Bochum 26 5 5 16 27 52 -25 20
17 Heidenheim 26 5 4 17 31 52 -21 19
18 Holstein Kiel 26 4 5 17 38 64 -26 17

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