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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:

April 25, 2025
Stuttgart 19:30 Heidenheim
April 26, 2025
Bayer 04 Leverkusen 14:30 Augsburg 1907
Bayern Munich 14:30 Mainz
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 14:30 Borussia Dortmund
Wolfsburg 14:30 SC Freiburg
Holstein Kiel 14:30 Borussia Mönchengladbach
Eintracht Frankfurt 17:30 RB Leipzig
April 27, 2025
VFL Bochum 14:30 Union Berlin
Werder Bremen 16:30 FC St. Pauli
May 2, 2025
Heidenheim 19:30 VFL Bochum
May 3, 2025
RB Leipzig 14:30 Bayern Munich
Borussia Mönchengladbach 14:30 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
Union Berlin 14:30 Werder Bremen
FC St. Pauli 14:30 Stuttgart
Borussia Dortmund 17:30 Wolfsburg
May 4, 2025
Augsburg 1907 14:30 Holstein Kiel
SC Freiburg 16:30 Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Mainz 18:30 Eintracht Frankfurt
May 9, 2025
Wolfsburg 19:30 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim

German Bundesliga Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Bayern Munich 30 22 6 2 87 29 +58 72
2 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 30 18 10 2 64 35 +29 64
3 Eintracht Frankfurt 30 15 7 8 58 42 +16 52
4 RB Leipzig 30 13 10 7 48 38 +10 49
5 SC Freiburg 30 14 6 10 43 47 -4 48
6 Mainz 30 13 8 9 48 36 +12 47
7 Borussia Dortmund 30 13 6 11 57 47 +10 45
8 Werder Bremen 30 13 6 11 48 54 -6 45
9 Borussia Mönchengladbach 30 13 5 12 48 46 +2 44
10 Augsburg 1907 30 11 10 9 33 40 -7 43
11 Stuttgart 30 11 8 11 56 50 +6 41
12 Wolfsburg 30 10 9 11 53 47 +6 39
13 Union Berlin 30 9 8 13 30 44 -14 35
14 FC St. Pauli 30 8 6 16 26 36 -10 30
15 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 30 7 9 14 38 55 -17 30
16 Heidenheim 30 6 4 20 32 60 -28 22
17 VFL Bochum 30 5 5 20 29 62 -33 20
18 Holstein Kiel 30 4 7 19 41 71 -30 19

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