Stuttgart vs Freiburg prediction: GERMANY: Bundesliga betting tips on match 2023-09-01 13:30.
It has been a rollercoaster start to the 2023/24 Bundesliga season for VfB Stuttgart, who began with a 5-0 home win over Bochum only to suffer a 5-1 defeat themselves, in spite of leading at half-time, away at RB Leipzig on Friday. Including their 4-0 DFB Pokal victory away at Balingen, the Reds can certainly lay claim to the tag of âentertainersâ so far in this campaign.
The hosts are unbeaten in the league at the MHPArena since Sebastian HoeneĂ took over in early April (W2, D3), form which saw them avoid the bottom two places and automatic relegation before they triumphed 6-1 against Hamburger SV in the relegation play-offs. But this weekendâs arrival of Freiburg will be a tough test as Stuttgart have lost the last six H2H meetings in the Bundesliga and havenât beaten them in league action since 2018 (D2, L6).
Christian Streichâs Freiburg side have made their customary strong start to the season with wins over Hoffenheim and Werder Bremen, both by a one-goal margin. Since the start of the 2019/20 season, Freiburg have not lost more than one league game of their opening five, and they were beaten only once in their first nine Bundesliga fixtures last season on route to a fifth-place finish.
It looked like being four points from two games going into injury time last week before Maximilian Philipp scored in the 96th minute against his former club. After failing to score in two of their previous five league matches, Phillipâs strike means that Freiburg have found the net in five successive Bundesliga games and look set for another positive season.
Key battle: Serhou Guirassy has scored in seven of Stuttgartâs last nine Bundesliga matches (relegation play-offs included) and has four goals in three games across all competitions so far this season, three of which arrived before the break. Twenty-one-year-old goalkeeper Noah Atubolu has made a fine start to the season, and his first-team career, by conceding only one goal from three games so far.
Hot stat: Stuttgart have not conceded a first-half goal in any of their last four home league fixtures.