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‘The trend is your friend’ - if the old stock market adage is true, Bundesliga leaders FC Bayern can go into their clash with bottom side Borussia Mönchengladbach on Saturday (15.30 CEST) with a good feeling. While Vincent Kompany's team boast the longest unbeaten run of any team in Europe's top five leagues (16 league games), the opposite is true of their opponents. The Foals' 14 Bundesliga games without a win also constitute a negative club record. fcbayern.com has put together all the key facts relating to the match for you.
FC Bayern extended their perfect start to the Bundesliga campaign with a 2-1 win over Dortmund last time out | © FC Bayern
Rare omens
FC Bayern and Borussia Mönchengladbach are meeting for the 114th time in the Bundesliga - only the record champions' fixture with Werder Bremen has been played more often in the competition (117 times). This is only the third time that the two teams have faced each other as first and last in the table. The last time it happened was in the 1998/99 season, when Bayern won both at home and away and Gladbach got relegated. Incidentally, FCB have won the last four encounters with the Borussians - only from 1965 to 1967 (five in a row) did Bayern achieve more consecutive victories in the fixture.
Bayern reign supreme as favourites
Banana-skin potential? Not at all! Bayern have won all of their last 17 Bundesliga games as league leaders against a team who were propping up the table. The last time the men from Munich dropped points to the bottom side as leaders was in March 2008 when they lost 2-0 at Energie Cottbus.
In March 2008, leaders FC Bayern lost at bottom-placed Cottbus - since then, the Munich men have lived up to their role as favourites. | © Imago
Historically strong Bayern attack
With 27 goals after seven matchdays, FC Bayern have equalled the Bundesliga record, which was previously held by the Munich men themselves (2020/21) and their upcoming opponents Mönchengladbach (1973/74). However, the Borussians can currently only dream of having as much attacking power as they did a good 50 years ago: The current total of just six goals in the Bundesliga is the lowest in the league along with 1. FC Heidenheim. In comparison: Harry Kane (12) alone has scored as many goals as the two of them combined.
Kane in the form of his life
Apropos Harry Kane: The striker scored for the fifth game in a row in Bayern's 2-1 win over Dortmund last week. It means the Englishman has equalled his own record from October/November 2023, when he also scored in five consecutive league games. Incidentally, he never managed a longer scoring streak in the Premier League either. But that's not all that makes Harry Kane so strong at the moment. The attacker works hard for the team and, after Jonathan Tah, has clocked up the most distance for Bayern in the current Bundesliga season (both around 73 km). Kane has also completed 76% of his long passes to a teammate - only Joshua Kimmich (80%) boasts a better success rate in the competition.
Harry Kane impressed against Dortmund, and not just because of his goalscoring instincts. | © FC Bayern
FCB impressive on the road
Vincent Kompany's side remain undefeated in 12 away games in the Bundesliga (nine wins, three draws), something that last happened in this form ten years ago (14 from 2015 to 2016). In addition, after the 3-0 win at Frankfurt, Bayern became the first team in Bundesliga history to score at least three goals in seven consecutive away matches.
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