Bayer 04 Leverkusen have not had as many Bundesliga wins against any other club as against VfB Stuttgart (40, including D21 L23). At home, VfB only suffered more defeats against FC Bayern in the Bundesliga (32) than against Leverkusen (18).
The Werkself have only lost one of their last 23 competitive games against Stuttgart (W17 D5), 0-1 at home in April 2018 in the Bundesliga. Leverkusen recently remained undefeated away from home against VfB 11 times in a row (W7 D4) – there is currently no other club in professional football where Leverkusen has been undefeated away from home for so long.
With 35 points after 13 games, Bayer 04 Leverkusen is playing the second-best season of a team in Bundesliga history (like Bayern in 2013/14) – only FC Bayern in 2015/16 under Pep Guardiola had more points at the same time (37). With 30 points, VfB Stuttgart played its second-best Bundesliga season ever; they only had more points in the 2003/04 season (33).
VfB Stuttgart scored 33 goals in the first 13 games of this Bundesliga season; VfB only scored more in 1984/85 and 1996/97 (34 each). Bayer 04 Leverkusen scored 38 goals, which is a new club record at this point.
VfB Stuttgart celebrated its last home win against a Bundesliga league leader in May 2009 (4-1 against Wolfsburg), since then there have been 11 home defeats in a row against the current league leaders.
VfB Stuttgart was awarded the most penalties this Bundesliga season: three of the six were converted, all by Serhou Guirassy, the other three were awarded (Führich, Silas, Undav). Bayer 04 Leverkusen, on the other hand, were the only team this BL season not to concede a penalty; the last penalty against the Werkself was converted by Guirassy on matchday 32 of the previous season.
Bayer 04 Leverkusen fired the most shots after high ball wins this Bundesliga season (28), followed immediately by VfB Stuttgart (26). Stuttgart scored the most goals after high ball wins (6), with the Werkself in second place in this ranking (4). The player with the most ball wins in the attacking third in the league is Leverkusen’s Florian Wirtz (18), followed by Stuttgart’s Chris Führich (17).
Leverkusen’s Victor Boniface scored again in the 1-1 draw against Dortmund after five goalless Bundesliga games and scored his eighth BL goal of the season. Only in 2022/23 in Belgium did Boniface score more league goals in a professional season (9). Since det. Data collection in 2004/05, only Harry Kane (23, in 12 appearances) and Diego (14) were directly involved in more goals in their first maximum 13 BL games than Boniface (13).
Stuttgart’s Deniz Undav scored eight goals in his first 10 Bundesliga games for VfB Stuttgart – this is a club record and had previously only been achieved by Hartmut Weiß in 1964/65. He recently scored for the Swabians for the first time in three BL appearances in a row (4 goals).
Stuttgart’s Serhou Guirassy outperforms his expected goals value by 5.7 this Bundesliga season (16 goals at 10.3 xG), only Harry Kane tops that (5.8, 18T at 12.2 xG), while no other player exceeds his xG value so clearly Underperformed like Leverkusen’s Victor Boniface (-3.4, 8T at 11.4 xG). These three players also have the highest xG values in the league (Kane: 12.2, Boniface: 11.4, Guirassy: 10.3).