Bayern Munich will continue their quest to retain their Bundesliga title with a visit to Stuttgart this Saturday.
While the visitors are flying high at the top of the table, the hosts are struggling at the other end of the table. Although they come into this tie sitting outside the relegation zone, their 2-1 loss to the toothless bottom-of-the-table Schalke 04 proved that they are in serious trouble unless they can regain their form.
That loss to Schalke made it 21 consecutive away league games without a win. But at least they recorded a 3-0 win against Cologne in their last home game, so they’ll hope a return to the Mercedes-Benz Arena can ignite a change of fortunes.
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The hosts also ended an unwanted all-time Bundesliga record of 31 straight home games without a clean sheet in that Cologne victory. However, they might struggle to build on that solid record against such strong opposition, especially as Bayern are the league’s top scorers with 64 goals this term.
The Bavarians have scored 2+ goals in each of their last four league games and will fancy their chances of getting a few goals here too. After losing ground recently in the title race when they were beaten 3-2 by Borussia Mönchengladbach, the visitors reclaimed top spot with a 3-0 win over Union Berlin last time.
But with Borussia Dortmund playing on Friday, they could have been knocked off the top spot come kick-off, so they’ll be keen to take advantage of a weakened Stuttgart and, in turn, extend their run of unbeaten Bundesliga games on Saturday’s primetime TV spot to 25 games (W19, D5).Meanwhile, given that Stuttgart have conceded a league-high ten goals in the opening 15 minutes this season whilst Bayern have scored a Bundesliga-high eleven goals in the same period, we can score early goals. So the best prediction for this game is goal first half.
