Match facts ahead of #BMGVFB

Everything you need to know about the Foals’ upcoming Bundesliga match at home to VfB Stuttgart on Saturday evening (18:30 CEST).

Spectators

• The most recent Coronavirus measures mean that BORUSSIA-PARK will be able to host around 48,500 fans, with around 38,500 sold already.
• Fans attending the game must be able to provide proof of one of the “3G” – a negative test, vaccination or recovery – in order to enter the ground.

Head-to-head record:

• This will be the 99th meeting between the Foals and VfB in Bundesliga history. The team from Swabia have the upper hand in the head-to-head, with 40 wins to Borussia’s 29. The remaining 29 games were drawn.
• The previous 98 Bundesliga games between the two sides have seen an average of 2.94 goals per game.
• The Foals’ highest-ever win against Stuttgart came in May 1975; Borussia battered this weekend’s opponents 5-1, with goals from Henning Jensen, Dietmar Danner (2), Christian Kulik and Rainer Bonhof.

Statistics – presented by UNIBET:

• Borussia began a string of wins before the international break, with a 1-0 win at home to Dortmund being followed up by a 3-1 victory away at VfL Wolfsburg. These two wins mark the first time since April that the Foals have won multiple games in a row.
• The two best tacklers in the Bundesliga will face each other this weekend. Matthias Ginter (72.1%) and Konstantinos Mavropanos (71.5%) have the highest percentage of successful tackles, with Nico Elvedi not far behind on 70.7%.
• VfB Stuttgart have been without their three top scorers from last season in each of their games this campaign. Sasa Kalajdzic and Silas Katompa Mvumpa are both injured, whilst Nicolas Gonzales moved to Fiorentina. To compensate, VfB’s defenders have stepped up to the plate, scoring five times already this season (they only scored once in the whole of 2020/21). No other Bundesliga club has had defenders score more than three of their goals, and half the teams in the league haven’t had one yet.
• Saturday’s visitors have also scored the most headed goals of any Bundesliga club, with five.
• The game could well be won in the air – the Foals have won two thirds of all their aerial duels this season, the second-highest percentage of all Bundesliga clubs behind Wolfsburg.

Social Media

• Fans can follow the match on social media using the hashtag #BMGVFB or by following Borussia’s English-language accounts on Twitter and Facebook.