Sunday’s 8-1 thrashing of Wolfsburg took Bayern up to 63 goals already for the campaign, smashing the previous record for the first half of a Bundesliga season that the Bavarians had set at 56 in 2021/22. The Munich men had never before reached 63 goals before Matchday 20. Given the fact Bayern have scored at least twice in each of their last 24 league fixtures – another Bundesliga record – that stat may come as little surprise.
101st league meeting
Bayern and Köln have faced each other 100 times before in the Bundesliga, with 53 wins for the Munich men to 23 defeats, plus 24 draws. Recent meetings have been very much to Bavarian tastes, unbeaten in the last 21 competitive encounters (W19, D2). Twenty of those have been played in the Bundesliga, but the most recent was October’s DFB Cup tie, which Bayern won 4-1 in Cologne in the second round. The Reds have actually won their last 11 visits to Germany’s Cathedral City going back 15 years, since Köln came from 2-0 down to prevail 3-2 in February 2011.
