Slovan Bratislava vs VfB Stuttgart

Stuttgart have registered consecutive UEFA Champions League wins for a third time, also doing so during 2003-04 (four in a row) and their final two group games in 2009-10.

Slovan Bratislava have become the first side in UEFA Champions League history to lose their first seven matches in the competition, while across all major European competitions they are the first side to 10 in a row since Dundalk between 2016 and 2020.

Stuttgart have won two of their last three away UEFA Champions League matches (L1), as many as they did in their first 12 away games combined (W2 D3 L7).

This will be the first meeting between Slovan Bratislava and Stuttgart since the 2010-11 campaign. In what were their only two games to date, the German side progressed 3-2 on aggregate in a play-off tie in qualifying for the UEFA Europa League (1-0 away and 2-2 at home).

Stuttgart have only lost one of their previous eight games against Slovakian/Czechoslovakian sides in European competition, winning five of those fixtures (D2 L1). Their only such defeat came away to Dukla Praha in the UEFA Cup in 1978, a result which saw them eliminated in the Last 16.

Slovan Bratislava have lost their first six UEFA Champions League matches, the first side to do so since Romanian club Otelul Galati in 2011. No side in Champions League history has ever lost their first seven games in the competition.

Stuttgart’s last two UEFA Champions League games ended 5-1, losing to Crvena Zvezda on MD5 before beating Young Boys on MD6. They last won consecutive games in the competition in December 2009.

Having lost their final three Conference League games last season and their first six of this season’s UEFA Champions League, Slovan Bratislava are enduring their second nine-match losing run in major European competition, having lost nine between 2011 and 2014. They are one of three sides to have two 9+ game losing runs, along with Dinamo Zagreb and Dundalk, the latter of whom were the last to lose 10 consecutively (2016 – 2020).