Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Borussia Mönchengladbach & FC Bayern München face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the DFB Pokal. All the pre-match information is available here!
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Borussia Mönchengladbach and FC Bayern München.
Borussia Mönchengladbach form and stats
Mönchengladbach have not come this way in the DFB Pokal without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating Kaiserslautern. Mönchengladbach participated in DFB Pokal the last season, where they reached the quarter-finals.2-2-0 (win-draw-lost) are the Bundesliga numbers at home for Borussia Mönchengladbach so far this season.
The fans are hoping that Mönchengladbach will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the Bundesliga game against Hertha BSC. Nico Elvedi, defender, was given a rating of 7.63/10 in that game, top of the team. Elvedi won 13 of 16 duels.
Preceding that game was the home draw versus Stuttgart that ended 1-1.There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Mönchengladbach, as the Bundesliga home game vs Bochum is only four days away.
The Mönchengladbach fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 6 goals in 4 league matches. From these home matches, Mönchengladbach have conceded only 3 goals.
FC Bayern München form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Bremer SV in order to reach 2nd round of DFB Pokal. They also participated in DFB Pokal last season. This ended in the 2nd round.Playing away, FC Bayern München have won 3 games, drawn 1 and suffered 0 defeats in the Bundesliga this season. Having won their last three away games München has no reason to fear anyone.
FC Bayern München had fun at their own home (Stadion im BORUSSIA-PARK) last time out, beating TSG Hoffenheim 4-0. Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, Kingsley Coman, Robert Lewandowski and Serge Gnabry scored. As mentioned above, München was the only team on the pitch versus TSG Hoffenheim in their previous game, winning 4-0. This could be a tougher task. Dayot Upamecano was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 9.05. The defender Upamecano signed up for two assists, hit two key passes and won 6 of 6 duels.
Preceding that game was the away Champions League victory against Benfica with the score of 4-0.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the FC Bayern München manager D. Toppmöller as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Union Berlin.
München are scoring goals for fun in their league games away this season, having clocked up more than three goals per game on average (13 goals from 4 away games). 4 goals have been conceded by München in these games.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - one - four (Mönchengladbach wins - draws - FC Bayern München wins). As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. Lewandowski 10 goals |  S. Gnabry 6 goals |   J. Hofmann 3 goals |
Borussia Mönchengladbach missing players
FC Bayern München missing players
| Borussia Mönchengladbach | FC Bayern München | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 7 | Won | W | 9 | 17 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | ||
| 9 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | ||
| 42 | 23 | Scored | S | 44 | 84 | ||
| 36 | 9 | Conceded | C | 14 | 27 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 80% | 82% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 64% | 64% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 85% | 84% | ||
| 44% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 69% | 68% | ||
| 16% | 9% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 38% | 44% | ||
| 52% | 64% | BTTS | BTTS | 69% | 52% | ||
| 28% | 36% | Clean Sheets | C S | 31% | 40% | ||
| 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 8% | ||
| 4.4 | 4.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.2 | 5.7 | ||
| 4.6 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 3.5 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.1 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 13.7 | 15.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 18.2 | 18.6 | ||
| 4.8 | 5.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7.6 | 7.9 | ||
| 35% | 41% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 44% | 42% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | FC Bayern München | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 25 | 22 |
| 2 | Borussia Dortmund | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 21 |
| 3 | SC Freiburg | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 19 |
| 4 | Bayer Leverkusen | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 16 |
| 5 | Union Berlin | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 15 |
| 6 | RB Leipzig | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 14 |
| 7 | FSV Mainz 05 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 13 |
| 8 | Wolfsburg | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -3 | 13 |
| 9 | Köln | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | -1 | 12 |
| 10 | Hertha BSC | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 21 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 16 | -10 | 12 |
| 11 | TSG Hoffenheim | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 11 |
| 12 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -2 | 11 |
| 13 | Stuttgart | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | -1 | 9 |
| 14 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | -3 | 8 |
| 15 | Bochum | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 13 | -11 | 7 |
| 16 | Augsburg | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | -13 | 6 |
| 17 | DSC Arminia Bielefeld | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -9 | 5 |
| 18 | Greuther Furth | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 17 | -18 | 1 |
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