Fresh from beating Benfica in the Champions League, Bayern now head to the iconic Millerntor in Hamburg for a Bundesliga clash against St. Pauli on Saturday. fcbayern.com has all the stats you need to know ahead of the game.
Good Pauli experiences
It’s been 13 years since Bayern last faced St. Pauli, but many fans will no doubt still remember that game as the Bavarians won 8-1 at the Millerntor in May 2011, with Thomas Müller playing alongside the likes of Mario Gomez and Bastian Schweinsteiger in the club’s biggest away victory in the Bundesliga. Conversely, that was the Kiezkicker’s heaviest defeat in the top flight. The overall record in this fixture has seen Bayern win six out of 10, with the sole defeat coming in February 2002 (2-1 away).
Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery both scored the last time Bayern faced St. Pauli. | Imago
Attack in full flow
No coach has ever seen his team score as many goals in his first nine Bundesliga fixtures as Vincent Kompany, with 32. And Bayern have been particularly prolific on their travels, scoring at least three goals in each of their five Bundesliga away games, which is a league record run together with the FCB class of 2019/20. The 22 goals Bayern have scored outside of Munich is also the most by any team in the first five away matches of a Bundesliga season.
While Bayern boast the best attack in the German top flight, Pauli currently have the least prolific with only seven goals so far. The Hamburg club have also struggled to make home advantage count since their Bundesliga return, earning only two of their eight points this season on their patch.
Who will keep their sheet clean?
Despite issues scoring and winning at home, St. Pauli have been mostly solid defensively and have managed four clean sheets this season – only Bayern (five) and RB Leipzig (six) have more shutouts. In fact, FCB head to the Millerntor on the back of three straight clean sheets in the Bundesliga against Union Berlin (3-0), Bochum (5-0) and VfB Stuttgart (4-0). The last time they managed four in a row was in December 2018.
Minjae Kim and the Bayern defence have kept three clean sheets in a row in the league. | FC Bayern
Kompany’s really good start
Ottmar Hitzfeld, Carlo Ancelotti, Vincent Kompany – it’s an illustrious list that our coach finds himself on thanks to his good start to life as Bayern boss. The Belgian has picked up 23 points from his first nine games in the Bundesliga, which is the best start by a coach since Ancelotti in 2016. Only Hitzfeld in 1998 has ever earned more points from his first matches as Bayern coach (25).
Kane and Coman in top form
When you look at Harry Kane’s numbers, you’d be forgiven for thinking he’d been plying his trade in the Bundesliga for a number of years, but this is still only the start of his second season at Bayern. And he’s already scored against all 18 teams he’s faced in the German top flight. Can he maintain that perfect record and make it 19 against Pauli? Only Miroslav Klose has played against more clubs in the Bundesliga and scored against every single one of them (28). Kane is also back on top of this season’s Bundesliga scoring chart with 11 goals.
The in-form Harry Kane and Kingsley Coman will again be tough to stop as Bayern visit St. Pauli. | Imago
Kingsley Coman isn’t that high up the list, but he’s hit a real purple patch of late and has scored in each of the last three Bundesliga games to match the total he got in the whole of 2023/24 (from 17 games).
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