And now Wolfsburg. The last coach to date to remain undefeated as Schalke in his first two Bundesliga games was André Breitenreiter in August 2015.
However, the statistics are not good as a royal blue encouragement. Schalke did not win any of the last four games against Wolfsburg. And in the Bundesliga, S04 has been waiting for a win for 22 away games. That is, you guessed it, a club negative record.
1. FC Union Berlin – 1. FC Cologne (Saturday, 3.30 p.m.)
Away games have been such a thing in Cologne lately. In the past, when the world was still one without a corona pandemic, they preferred to play at home in Cologne. But without fans, FC has a hard time in their own stadium: the club only won one of the 17 so-called home ghost games. The away games are all the more important these days. 1. FC Köln scored 68 percent of their points in these this season.
In Berlin, however, it will not be easy for Cologne to maintain or even expand these statistics. At least that’s what the statistics say: Union won all of the three clashes in the Bundesliga. 1. FC Union Berlin has a comparable record against any other Bundesliga club.
1. FSV Mainz 05 – SC Freiburg (Saturday, 3.30 p.m.)
In Mainz they are expecting Freiburg, the 05er have not won or scored more goals against any other club in their Bundesliga history. But the joy about the Freiburg visit was possibly even greater. After all, it’s a home game, and they don’t really like it in Mainz: Since summer 2019, the club has lost 18 of 29 Bundesliga home games, and no team is worse.
At SC Freiburg, however, Jonathan Schmid, 30, will be very much looking forward to this game. Schmid particularly likes to meet and against Mainz, he has already scored four Bundesliga goals against FSV. Schmidt scored more often only against Augsburg and Hanover (5 each). With one stake, Schmid would have made 274 Bundesliga games, it would be a record: No French player has played more games in the Bundesliga, and Schmid is already on par with Franck Ribéry.
Ribéry has already sent congratulations, SC Freiburg posted a video of it on Instagram. Do it “only the best”, said Ribéry and meant Schmid’s Bundesliga statistics. But the best have to go to Mainz.
Werder Bremen – Bayern Munich (Saturday, 3:30 p.m.)
They like home games in Bremen right now, Werder haven’t lost the last four. In general, Florian Kohfeldt’s team is in a good position, 30 points already. That is eleven more than Bielefeld in relegation rank 16. But now Bayern are coming to Bremen – and what was once a regular duel almost at eye level was mostly far from it in the end.
Bremen’s last win against Bayern was a long time ago: Diego and Mesut Özil towered 5-2 in September 2008, but this is not the time for nostalgia. Since then, Werder has not been able to win against FC Bayern in 28 competitive games. After all: Bremen fought for a draw in the first half of the season.
Nevertheless, it is an unequal duel, you can read that from a single statistic: Robert Lewandowski has scored a sensational 31 goals after 24 games – two more than the entire Bremen team.
Borussia Dortmund – Hertha BSC (Saturday, 6.30 p.m.)
They will be extremely reluctant to remember the first leg at Hertha. The Berliners lost 2: 5, they conceded all five goals they conceded in the second half – that had only happened to Hertha in the Bundesliga in November 1964 against Bremen.
Erling Haaland scored four of the five goals in the first leg, but he almost always scores this season: 19 league games, 19 goals. You can do it like that. “He’s a Phenomenon”said Berlin’s sports director Arne Friedrich.
Haaland particularly likes to score his goals away from home, he has only scored seven times at home. But they shouldn’t rely on it in Berlin. During the week, BVB had a home game in the Champions League, Haaland scored both goals in the 2-2 draw against FC Sevilla.
Bayer 04 Leverkusen – Arminia Bielefeld (Sunday, 1.30 p.m.)
Leverkusen’s coach Peter Bosz likes beautiful football, but he also has no problem with going unusual ways. In the 1-0 win against Gladbach, Bosz did not use a single change opportunity recently. That hadn’t happened in a game in the Bundesliga for five years. Of course you can change, said Bosz, but “you don’t have to”.
Leverkusen had recently found itself in a sporting crisis, but it may now have come to an end. The gap to a Champions League place is now only three points.
In Bielefeld they can only dream of such spheres. Arminia has been waiting for a win for seven league games and only scored two points during that time. The change of coach to Frank Kramer hasn’t helped either. After all, one thing ran last: the players. In the game against Union, Bielefeld’s players recently ran 133.6 kilometers – a Bundesliga record since data collection began in 2011/2012.
RB Leipzig – Eintracht Frankfurt (Sunday, 3.30 p.m.)
Leipzig is the team of the hour – you just have to think about the end of the Champions League against Liverpool. But things are going really well for RB in the Bundesliga: Julian Nagelsmann’s team has won the last six league games, Bayern are now only two points away.
And now the top game against fourth-placed Frankfurt, it could be a really big football game. However, it may not be that exciting at all, this is the conclusion the statistics suggest: RB has only lost two of 34 competitive games in their own stadium since mid-October 2019. Frankfurt, on the other hand, actually only loses away from home: Eintracht conceded all three defeats in this Bundesliga season in foreign stadiums.
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