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All you need to know ahead of Eintracht’s home match against VfB Stuttgart on Saturday.

How things stand

The international break is now over, so focus has switched to the business end of the Bundesliga season. There are still eight rounds of fixtures left to play, starting with Eintracht’s home game against VfB Stuttgart on Saturday evening (kick-off 18:30 CET).

The Eagles go into the Matchday 27 assignment in fourth place with 45 points; VfB are in tenth on 37. Dino Toppmöller’s side earned a 3-1 win at VfL Bochum ahead of the first international break of 2025, while Stuttgart’s 4-3 defeat against Bayer Leverkusen extended their winless run to five league games.

Looking back

There have been 103 Bundesliga meetings between these teams so far, including 36 wins for Eintracht, 44 for VfB, and 23 draws. In fact, last season’s league runners-up have more domestic victories over Eintracht than they do against any other club.

The reverse fixture earlier this campaign was a dramatic occasion until the very end, with the Eagles ultimately earning a 3-2 away win. Another victory this weekend would mark the first time that Eintracht have won both league games against VfB since 2018/19, when they did so with two 3-0 victories.

Recent history is on Eintracht’s side too, with five wins, four draws and just two defeats in the teams’ last 11 Bundesliga matches.

Goals galore

It seems unlikely that Saturday’s game will end goalless. The last 0-0 draw between these teams was almost exactly 31 years ago on 26 March 1994. Incidentally, that game also took place on Matchday 27.

Jean-Mattéo Bahoya’s strike in Bochum on 16 March means Eintracht now have a league-high 17 different scorers in 2024/25. VfB are second in that particular category with 16.

Thanks to that effort that opened his Bundesliga account, Bahoya, 19, has now been directly involved in three goals in his last two competitive outings, against AFC Ajax and Bochum. As such, he has one more goal involvement in that period than he registered in his first 30 games for the Eagles.

Speaking of youth, VfB have averaged the youngest starting line-up in the Bundesliga this season at 25 years, 110 days. Eintracht are third in that ranking with an average of 25 years and 188 days.