FC Union Berlin vs Eintracht Frankfurt Bundesliga Match Preview or Key Statistics 🔵
Union celebrated their first-ever win against Eintracht Frankfurt in the second half of last season (2-1), in their ninth competitive meeting (previously D3 L5).
Eintracht Frankfurt have not lost any of their five away games at Union in all competitions (W4 D1), scoring 15 and conceding three.
Union have faced Frankfurt more times at home without ever winning than they have any other side in professional football (5). 1860 Munich are the only side they failed to win any of their first six home games against in professional football (first win in seventh meeting).
Union have the best record of any Bundesliga team across the last three matchdays. Leverkusen are the only other side to have won all their last three games.
Union have won four games this season and currently have 15 points after eight matchdays (more than twice as many as they had at this stage last season – 7). They’ve scored 18 goals, a tally they’ve only bettered once before: 23 goals at this stage in 2001/02 (Bundesliga 2).
Max Kruse missed from spot last time out, after having converted all of his 16 previous penalty attempts (Hans-Joachim Abel is the only other player to have ever managed this). He then scored the rebound to put Union ahead in a 2-1 win.
Union have scored in all of their last nine Bundesliga games, spanning multiple seasons (21 goals) – a new club record in the top flight.
Eintracht Frankfurt have 11 points from eight games – three fewer than at this stage last season. However, they’ve lost just one of these matches: 5-0 at Bayern on 24th October.
Frankfurt are without a win in their last five games, drawing four of these matches. They last had a similar winless run in the second half of 2019/20, when they went six games without a victory between February and May.
André Silva is Frankfurt’s top goalscorer this Bundesliga season (5 goals). He’s scored 13 goals since the restart at the end of May, a tally that’s only bettered by Bayern’s Robert Lewandowski (20) and Dortmund’s Erling Haaland (14).
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