Home run & in-form Momoko Tanikawa as FC Bayern Women host Köln

FC Bayern Women are at home to Köln for Matchday 7 in the Google Pixel Bundesliga. From super-subs to an in-form Momoko Tanikawa and a long-standing dominance in this fixture, find out all the key stats and facts ahead of Sunday’s meeting at the Campus.

Solid as a rock

If any team embodies defensive control right now, it’s Bayern. They’ve conceded just a single goal over the first six league games. Digging a bit deeper, the Munich Frauen allow opponents on average just seven shots per match and boast an xGA as low as 2.7 this season. They’re numbers that show that any team who wants to get one over the champions needs to get things right.

Captain Glódís Perla Viggósdóttir and her defence have been breached only once this season in the Bundesliga, in last week’s 3-1 win at Wolfsburg. | © Alexander Schreuber / FC Bayern

A fortress on Campus

Bayern are unbeaten in their last 44 Bundesliga games at home, winning 41 of those. There’s still some way to go to the all-time record of 68 that Wolfsburg set between 2016 and 2022, but the Bavarians are edging ever closer.

As for Köln, their visits to the Campus have never been fruitful. They are in fact yet to even earn a Bundesliga point in Munich.

Bayern have turned the Campus into a fortress, going 44 Bundesliga home games without defeat.

Super-subs

Part of Bayern’s success this season has been their strength in depth. They have benefited from five goals scored by substitutes in the Bundesliga – second across the division behind Freiburg’s six – with each coming from a different player in Klara Bühl, Lena Oberdorf, Lea Schüller, Linda Dallmann and Alara Şehitler.

Opponents are well aware that there’s much more to come beyond the starting XI who can change the game.

Linda Dallmann is one of the five substitutes to have scored for Bayern this season. | © FC Bayern / Eva Dippold

Three in a row for Tanikawa?

Two youngsters are emerging as important pillars of this Bayern team. Tanikawa, 20, has scored in the last two Bundesliga games after failing to net in any of her first 10 in Germany’s top flight, while 18-year-old Alara got her first of the season in last week’s victory over Wolfsburg.

Momoko Tanikawa is out to strike for the third Bundesliga game running as Bayern look for a third straight win in all competitions. | © Alexander Schreuber / FC Bayern

Can Bayern keep perfect record?

Köln started the season with three defeats but have since picked up seven points from the most recent three matches, showing they have found their feet this term. However, the history of this fixture is very much in Bayern’s favour, winning all 15 competitive meetings with the Billy Goats since the first Bundesliga encounter in September 2015.

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