FC Schalke vs VfL Wolfsburg Bundesliga Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Since the Bundesliga was founded, Schalke and Wolfsburg have met 50 times in professional football, with 46 of these meetings taking place in the top-flight. Wolfsburg have only faced Werder (52), Hertha and Bayern (both 53) on more occasions.
Schalke have won nine of their last 11 home games against Wolfsburg. They’ve lost just once across these 11 games, in their most recent meeting in Gelsenkirchen (4-1 in June 2020).
Wolfsburg’s 4-1 win at Schalke in June 2020 was their biggest ever away win against the Royal Blues. The Wolves had won just three of their previous 24 games in Gelsenkirchen (D7, L14).
FC Schalke 04 have shipped 22 goals in the Bundesliga this season – a league high. Wolfsburg have the joint second-best defence in the league, having conceded five goals, same as Dortmund – only Leipzig have let in fewer (4).
Only promoted side Arminia Bielefeld (4) have scored fewer goals in the Bundesliga this season than Schalke (5) and Wolfsburg (7, same as Köln and Mainz).
Schalke’s last Bundesliga win came on 17th January against Borussia Mönchengladbach (2-0). Their 23-game winless run (D9, L14) is the second longest in BL history (Tasmania Berlin went 31 league games without a win in 1965/66).
No other current Bundesliga side is on a longer wait for a clean sheet than Schalke. Since a 0-0 draw in Mainz in February, they’ve failed to record a shutout in 19 league games spanning multiple seasons. They last did the same in the BL in 1975/76.
Wolfsburg are unbeaten in their opening seven games of a Bundesliga season for the second time in club history (W2, D5) - their first defeat came on matchday 10 last term. Leverkusen (W4, D3) are the only other remaining undefeated side this season.
FC Schalke 04 have taken three points from five Bundesliga games under Manuel Baum, as many as they managed in their last 14 league games under David Wagner.
Onlytwo Schalke head coaches have taken fewer points from their first five Bundesliga games in charge than Manuel Baum has (3). Karl-Heinz Marotzke managed just one point in 1967 while Markus Weinzierl started with five straight BL defeats in 2016.
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