SV Werder Bremen scored as many goals against any other team in the Bundesliga as against VfB Stuttgart (183) and also scored more times in away games against any other club than against the Swabians (68 times). In the upper house, however, Stuttgart only conceded more goals against Bayern (227) and Dortmund (186) than against SVW (183), the same applies in BL home games (against Bremen 68 GT, against FCB 100, against BVB 77).
With 27 points after 12 games, VfB Stuttgart is playing its second-best Bundesliga season (like 1996/97) – only in 2003/04 were there more points after 12 games (30). VfB is already playing its best first half of the season since the 2006/07 championship season (then 32 after 17 games).
SV Werder Bremen recently suffered its 19th Bundesliga defeat in 2023, which is a league record and a new negative club record within a calendar year. It was already the seventh defeat in this BL season – Werder only had at least that many defeats in 2015/16 (7) and 2016/17 (8) at the same time this millennium.
Only Heidenheim scored as few away points this Bundesliga season as SV Werder Bremen (1), no team less. The only time SVW had a maximum of one point after the first five BL guest games this millennium was in 2016/17 (also 1).
VfB Stuttgart scored 31 goals in the first 12 games of this Bundesliga season; at the time of comparison, VfB only scored more goals in 1984/85 and 1996/97 (33 each). In addition, VfB only conceded 15 goals, the last time VfB had conceded fewer at the time of comparison was in 2011/12 (12).
SV Werder Bremen scored the least often of all teams this Bundesliga season (129 times) and also had the fewest shots on goal (43). VfB Stuttgart, on the other hand, has the third-best values in the league in both categories (191 and 80 respectively).
This Bundesliga season, VfB Stuttgart scored 32% of its goals (10 of 31) in the final quarter of an hour, which is a league high. SV Werder Bremen, on the other hand, conceded 24% of their goals in this phase of the game (6 out of 25), only Mainz conceded more (32%).
Deniz Undav scored seven goals in his first nine Bundesliga games for VfB Stuttgart – this is a club record and had previously only been achieved by Hartmut Weiß in 1964/65, Fritz Walter in 1987 and Adhemar in 2001. He scored all of his seven goals since the sixth matchday – since the start of the sixth matchday this BL season, only Harry Kane has scored more goals (11) than him (7).
Stuttgart’s Serhou Guirassy remained goalless in three Bundesliga duels against Werder Bremen – he didn’t play more often against any club in the Bundesliga without scoring. He scored in each of his last five BL home games for VfB – the last time Vedad Ibisevic achieved that was in 2012, while Mario Gomez last achieved a longer series of home goals for VfB in 2007/08 (7).
Bremen coach Ole Werner has not lost any of his four competitive games as a coach against VfB Stuttgart (W3 D1) – in addition to the 2-0 (A) and 2-2 (H) with SV Werder Bremen in the last Bundesliga season, he won In the 2019/20 season in the 2nd league with Holstein Kiel both games against the later promoted Stuttgart (1-0 A, 3-2 H).