FC Bayern are reaching for the next Bundesliga record – and this in a season in which the German record champions are performing with an impressive naturalness in attack. After the 3-1 win against FC St. Pauli, Munich have now scored at least two goals in 20 consecutive league games. The last time such a streak was achieved was eleven years ago under Pep Guardiola.
As the data provider Opta reports, FC Bayern have set their own historic record. If Vincent Kompany’s team manage to score twice again next weekend in the southern clash against VfB Stuttgart, the record will fall – and a new era in Munich’s attacking power would officially begin.
Kompany quietly writes his own Bayern statistics
Vincent Kompany’s record since his arrival in Munich reads remarkably anyway. The Belgian has managed the record champions in 76 competitive matches, winning 56 of them, drawing ten and losing just ten. His points average is an outstanding 2.34 points – in the Bundesliga it is even 2.52 points per game.
In pure league figures, that means Kompany has played 46 games, won 36, drawn eight and lost two, with a goal difference of 143:41, an expression of the attacking dominance that FCB have embodied for months.
The comparisons with Pep Guardiola are therefore no coincidence. Back in October, Kompany cracked the 100 Bundesliga points mark with a 3-0 win in Frankfurt – faster than almost any of his predecessors in his second year under him. Only Guardiola reached this figure faster (39 games), Kompany needed 40.
The 39-year-old even ranks in one of the most prestigious early form statistics in club history: only Guardiola (2013/14) and Branko Zebec (1968/69) scored 26 points from ten games before him. Kompany’s team, however, had the best goal difference of these three top teams with 33:7. An indication of how consistently Bayern play forwards in his era.
VfB Stuttgart as the next touchstone
So Munich’s streak is by no means shaky – it is alive and kicking. And against VfB Stuttgart, Kompany could break the most impressive record of his young Bayern career to date. Provided Bayern score at least twice again. There is much to suggest this: 44 goals after twelve league games speak for themselves.
If Kompany’s attacking machine keeps going, the next historic record will be broken after eleven years.