With top European football action this midweek we look at the key Barcelona vs Bayern Munich stats ahead of their huge clash at the Nou Camp on Wednesday night – with the overall head-to-head record making for slightly surprising reading.
The Champions League takes top-billing again this midweek as the tournament heads into its third round of games and one of the biggest clashes is Barcelona hosting Bayern Munich on Wednesday.
Both sides will head into the third round of games having won one and lost one, so each side will know how important grabbing all three points will be.
While with both sides topping their domestic tables too, they also head here in red-hot form – Barcelona saw off Sevilla 5-1 at the weekend and Bayern thumped Stuttgart 4-0, thanks to a Harry Kane treble.
This will be the 16th time the pair have meet in Europe – however, despite the best football betting sites in the UK finding it hard to split the pair – the overall Barcelona vs Bayern Munch stats actually heavily favour one side.
📅Date: Wednesday 23rd October 2024
⌚Time: 8:00pm
⚽️Venue: Nou Camp, Barcelona (Spain)
📺 TV: TNT Sports
Being European heavyweights, if you probably asked a hundred football fans on the street what the Barcelona vs Bayern Munich head-to-head record was in the last 15 clashes – most would say it would be an even split.
However, this couldn’t be further from the truth as strangely Bayern Munich have been a bit of a bogey side for Barcelona – with the Spanish side having recorded only two wins from the last 15 meetings.
They last meet in the Champions League in 2022, with again Munich coming out on top thanks to 2-0 and 3-0 wins (see below) – which was a defeat that saw Barcelona fail to qualify for the knockout rounds and head to the Europa League.
In fact, Bayern Munich will also head into Wednesday’s Champions League clash having won ALL of their last six against Barcelona – while the Spanish giants have also remarkably not even scored against the German side in the last four – wow.
You have to go back seven games to 2015 to find the last Barcelona victory over Bayern Munich – which came at home in a 3-0 win thanks to a brace from Messi and another from Neymar.
What’s interesting further is that when Bayern Munich have beaten Barcelona in these recent clashes, they’ve done so by scoring a hat-full of goals.
Munich have netted at least 2 GOALS in ALL of their last six matches vs Barcelona and an even better 3+ in seven of the last nine.
In total Bayern Munich have scored a staggering 29 goals in their last nine against Barcelona – which works out an average of 3.22 goals per game.
In contrast, Barcelona have failed to find the back of the net in ALL of their last four matches vs Munich.
If having a wager with the best betting sites in the UK in the correct score market, then 3-0 to Bayern Munich should certainly be on your radar.
This is because we’ve seen a 3-0 Bayern Munich win in three of the last four meetings and also in 50% of the last eight.
We’ve already mentioned that Munich have a habit of scoring plenty of goals when facing Barcelona – and this is again backed up with a massive eight of the last nine head-to-heads seeing Over 2.5 Goals, which works out as a 89% return.
In fact, when looking at all of the last 15 meetings the Barcelona vs Bayern Munich stats also show that 12 of these games also went Over 2.5 Goals.
Former Bayern man Robert Lewandowski now plies his trade at Barcelona and the Polish striker has been in top form already this season with 14 goals in all competitions. He was on target twice in their 5-1 home win over Sevilla at the weekend too.
He’ll be up against his replacement at Munich, Harry Kane – who has fired in 12 goals already this term in all comps – including a three-timer in their 4-0 victory over Stuttgart on Saturday.
