Bayern Munich Overpower Stuttgart with 5-1 Victory
Bayern needed 15 minutes to feel their way in. After that, they simply tore Stuttgart apart.
VfB started boldly, pressed high and traded blows early on. For a quarter of an hour, the visitors matched the champions, snapping into tackles and forcing Bayern to play under pressure.
Then the resistance cracked.
In the 21st minute, Dayot Upamecano opened the scoring, and with that Bayern’s grip tightened. From there, the pattern felt familiar: Stuttgart chasing, Bayern dictating, chances piling up.
Second Half
The game briefly threatened to flip after the break.
Straight after half-time, Josha Vagnoman stunned the Allianz Arena, levelling for Stuttgart in the 52nd minute and injecting fresh belief into Sebastian Hoeneß’s side.
That hope barely lasted three minutes.
Bayern hit back instantly. Michael Olise restored the lead in the 55th minute, and the pressure finally broke Stuttgart completely when Vagnoman, the earlier scorer, turned the ball into his own net in the 58th. From 1-1 to 3-1 in six ruthless minutes – classic Bayern.
Stuttgart never really recovered. They kept running, kept trying to play, but the champions smelled blood.
Late on, Aleksandar Pavlovic made it four in the 82nd minute, before Luis Diaz added a fifth in stoppage time (90+2) to complete a 5-1 demolition that could easily have been heavier.
Pavlovic, speaking to Sky, summed up Bayern’s relentlessness: “We gave everything from the start. It is often the case against Stuttgart that they fade a little in the middle of the second half and no longer have quite as much energy. That was the case again today. And we just keep going, never stop and always score our goals.”
On the other side, Stuttgart’s new captain Deniz Undav did not sugar-coat anything. The verdict was brutal.
“If Fabi (Bredlow, VfB goalkeeper) had not had such an outstanding day today, you would have conceded eight or nine here. They play out their chances right to the end, while we had four or five situations from which chances could have arisen, but in which we made the wrong decisions,” he told Sky. The two league meetings with Bayern, he said, are “bonus games in the season. Unfortunately, it became so clear-cut.”
Even that felt like an understatement.
Lights out at half-time – literally
As if the scoreline was not awkward enough, Stuttgart had to deal with a bizarre scene at the interval.
Inside the dressing room, the lights suddenly went off – apparently due to a power cut. VfB coach Sebastian Hoeneß confirmed the incident afterwards.
“There was no more light, but it was still bright enough, we could still see each other, we did not trip over. So everything was fine,” he told Sky with a hint of dry humour.
On the football itself, he was far less relaxed: “We have to improve, no question. Bayern will still beat many other teams here, probably by an even bigger margin than us, but we still have to have the ambition to play better.”
Bayern, meanwhile, walk away with exactly what they wanted: a statement scoreline, the sense of a machine whirring back into its familiar rhythm, and another reminder to the rest of the league that if you fade for even a few minutes, they will run right over you.
