The tragic way? Bayern scored 51 goals in Hamburg in the last 9 home games, but Hamburg has not scored this season

Hupu September 13th News The classic Bundesliga battle is about to return: after seven years of separation, Hamburg returns to the German top league and will face Bayern Munich on Saturday local time. This will be the first encounter between the two teams since March 2018. Bayern Munich's matchup with this former Bundesliga giant is often extremely fierce, with frequent high-scoring goals recently - especially because no other Bundesliga club has scored so many goals (247 goals) against this newly promoted Bundesliga team like Bayern Munich. Bayern Munich's official website collected some more data related to this game before the game.

Recent confrontation results are terrible

Bayern Munich has always had a high score when he faced Hamburg at home. However, the goal distribution of both sides is not evenly balanced: considering the 51-3 goal difference, it is no surprise that Bayern Munich won all of their last nine home games against Hamburg. Saturday night's reunion could bring some particularly bad memories to Hamburg, as Bayern Munich won 9-2 in the March 2013 match. It is worth mentioning that this game was the most goals scored in the Bundesliga since the early 1990s, tied for first place with Schalke's 7-4 victory over Leverkusen in February 2006.

However, things didn't always go so well. Hamburg is the only team to win the first two Bundesliga away games that were launched in 2005. This includes Bayern Munich's 1-2 home defeat at the new stadium in March 2006, which is also their first home defeat in the Bundesliga. Before the impressive winning streak for Bayern Munich mentioned above began, Hamburg remained unbeaten in Munich in total four times – perhaps partly thanks to Vincent Kompany’s stabilization of the visiting team’s defense in two games in 2008.

The strongest and weakest starts

Bayern Munich's offense made a brilliant start in the new Bundesliga season, scoring 9 goals in the first two rounds, setting a club record (the last time this record was set in the 2020/21 season). Bayern Munich has scored at least two goals in each of the last 16 home games of the Bundesliga. Bayern Munich's last better record was about 40 years ago (17 home games from 1984 to 1985). The situation in Hamburg is very different, and they and Borussia Mönchengladbach are the only teams that have not yet scored. Given the current record, especially in the away game in Munich, it is uncertain whether this will change. After all, Bayern Munich won all three Bundesliga games at Allianz Stadium and did not concede a single goal - just like their last four home games against Hamburg.

Bayern's offensive players are in full swing

After two rounds of games, Michael Olisse and Harry Kane lead the Bundesliga scorer list with three goals respectively, and Dortmund's Selhu Gilasi is also among them. New signing Luis Dias scored goals in both the first two matches of the Bundesliga, followed closely behind.

Michael Olisse has contributed six consecutive goals in the Bundesliga - the last Bayern Munich player to do that was Robert Lewandowski in 2021, who even scored 15 consecutive games at the time. Except for Lewandowski (3 times), only Gede Muller (2 times) and Roy Makai (2 times) have scored more than six consecutive goals in the Bundesliga for Bayern Munich.

If Luis Dias can also score against Hamburg, he will become the fourth new player in Bayern Munich history to score in the first three Bundesliga games: only Rugero Rizitelli (1996), Luca Tony (2007) and Mario Mandzukic (2012) have done this before.

Harry Kane has scored all 19 teams facing in the Bundesliga so far. In Bundesliga history, only Miroslav Klose broke this record, with all 28 teams he faced in the top league. Now, Kane will play Hamburg for the first time…