Record from the VfB view-point
Total: 34 games, 21 wins, 3 draws, 10 defeats, 58:40 goal-difference
Home: 17 games, 13 wins, 2 draws, 2 defeats, 37:16 goal-difference
Away: 17 games, 8 wins, 1 draws, 8 defeats, 21:24 goal-difference
Additional clashes
VfB and SC Freiburg have locked horns on four occasions in the DFB Cup, with the Cannstatt Boys leaving the field of play as victors twice. The last meeting of the two in the domestic cup ended in a 2-1 win for the Sport-Club (2013/14).
Looking back
Six of the last seven Bundesliga clashes between SC Freiburg and VfB, went in favour of the Wasenelf. In the 2014/15 campaign, VfB had to settle for just one point, after a 2-2 draw. Stuttgart’s last Bundesliga defeat to the ‘Breisgauer‘ dates back to November 2012 (0-3).
Streich back on the bench
Freiburg head coach Christian Streich, who missed out on his side’s first two Bundesliga games and also the relative training sessions with a prolapsed intervertebral disc, has been back on the pitch again since Monday. The 53-year-old will take his place on the coaching-stool against VfB for the first time in the new Bundesliga season.
Milestone
Mario Gomez is set to make his 300th Bundesliga appearance this weekend in the game against SC Freiburg. In eleven previous meetings with the Sport-Club, the striker has scored ten goals. The front-man requires an average of 77 minutes per goal against SC Freiburg.
Familiar faces
In Marc Oliver Kempf, a former Freiburg player made the move to Bad Cannstatt in the summer. The central-defender pulled on the Sport-Club kit a total of 68 times between 2014 and 2018 in both the top and second-flights. Dennis Aogo played his football in Freiburg from 2005 until 2008, making 94 appearances for the club in the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga.