Record against Greuther Fürth
Overall: 49 games, 27 wins, 8 draws, 14 defeats, 99:62 goal difference
In Bundesliga 2: 6 games, 3 wins, 1 draw, 2 defeats, 9:4 goal difference
Looking back
VfB’s most recent home match against Fürth came on Matchday 8 of the 2016/17 season, with the boys from Cannstatt delighting their fans with a 4-0 win courtesy of a Carlos Mané brace (2’, 4’), and strikes from Benjamin Pavard (24’) and Christian Gentner (80’).
Familiar faces
VfB goalkeeper Jens Grahl laced his boots for Greuther Fürth between 2006 and 2009. Vice versa for visiting midfielder Julian Green, who played the second half of the 2016/17 promotion season for VfB, while Hans Nunoo Sarpei has also plied his trade in Stuttgart. Marius Funk joined the Cannstatt club in 2010 as a youth player before moving to Fürth in the summer of 2016, and Marco Caligiuri was also on VfB’s books from 2000 to 2007, but did not play a competitive match.
Current form
Tim Walter is unbeaten in seven competitive games at the helm of VfB. Since the turn of the century, only Tayfun Korkut has had a better start as a new coach in Stuttgart with eight consecutive matches undefeated. Both of them opened their first season at the club with five wins in their first seven outings.
Home fortress
VfB have the best home record of any club in Bundesliga 2, winning no fewer than 80 per cent of their matches. So far this season, Walter’s charges have won all three of their home games by the same score, 2-1.
Raining in the shots
Stuttgart have recorded no fewer than 108 shots in their six matches to date – more than any other second-tier team.
On the score sheet
The top scorers on either side have each found the back of the net three times so far this season. VfB’s leading goal-getter is Nicolas Gonzalez, while Green and Daniel Keita-Ruel share that honour for Fürth.