Borussia Monchengladbach vs FC Schalke Bundesliga Match Preview or Key Statistics 📰
Schalke won 2-0 at home against Borussia Mönchengladbach on matchday 18 of 2019/20, ending a run of eight competitive games without a win against the Foals (D5 L3).
The aforementioned 2-0 win on 17th January was Schalke’s last Bundesliga win to date. They’ve failed to win any of their 24 BL games since (D9 L15). Tasmania Berlin in 1965/66 are the only side to endure a longer winless run in the top flight (31 games).
Gladbach have won 29 of their 47 Bundesliga home games against Schalke – they’ve only won more on their own patch against Bremen (30). The Foals are unbeaten in their last eight home games against Schalke in all competitions (W5 D3).
Gladbach (7 of 13) and Schalke (3 of 5) have both scored over half of their Bundesliga goals in 2020/21 from set pieces (only Bremen have also managed this). The Royal Blues have also conceded a league-high nine goals from set pieces.
Despite having a man advantage and leading for 83 minutes against Augsburg, Gladbach only managed a 1-1 draw last time out. The Foals have already thrown away nine points from winning positions this Bundesliga season, a league-high together with Freiburg.
Gladbach are winless in their last two Bundesliga games (also lost 4-3 to Leverkusen on MD7), something that also happened at the start of this season (3-0 in Dortmund and 1-1 vs. Union). The Foals have never gone more than two BL games without a win under Marco Rose (most recently 3 without a win in April 2019).
Gladbach are unbeaten in their last seven Bundesliga games at home, but have drawn three of their four matches at Borussia-Park in 2020/21. They’ve only failed to score in one of their 21 BL home games under Marco Rose: a 0-0 draw against upcoming opponents Schalke in August 2019.
After losing 2-0 to Wolfsburg last time out, Schalke have now conceded 24 goals this Bundesliga season. The last side to have shipped as many goals at this stage of a top-flight campaign was Freiburg 24 years ago (also 24 in 1996/97).
No current Bundesliga club are on a longer wait for a clean sheet than FC Schalke 04. Since drawing 0-0 against Mainz in February, they’ve gone 20 league games in a row without a shutout (spanning multiple seasons).
Schalke head into a matchday sitting in the bottom three for the seventh time this season. They last spent as many games in the relegation zone 27 years ago, in 1993/94!
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