Schalke vs Stuttgart
German Bundesliga
Date: Friday, 30 October 2020
Kick-off at 19:30 UK/ 20:30 CET
Venue: Veltins Arena.
Team News
Mark Uth has missed the last two games with a thigh injury and is still classified Touch and Go.
Kilian Ludewig missed training with an intense cold at the beginning of the week.
International Turkish Ozan Kabak still is serving a four-game suspension for spitting incident unaesthetic. Salif Sane replace him.
Courtesy of Frankfurt, Frederik Rönnow is now ahead of Ralf Fährmann in the pecking order as No.1 Schalke.
Suat Serdar has suffered a muscle injury and will be out for several weeks, but Amina Harith can play with success after leaving quarantine.
Head coach Pellegrino Matarazzo has a long injury list to contend assembly.
Silas Wamangituka Fundu has a knee injury and is unlikely to feature, along with Roberto Massimo. Waldemar Anton is also doubtful with a knee injury.
Nicholas Gonzalez is then formed a hip injury and is pushing for a start, as is Tanguy Coulibaly is on an ankle injury.
Wataru Endo still has problems with its adductor and the keeper, but Gregor Kobel has recovered from a back injury.
Loan signing of Arsenal, Dinos Mavropanos underwent a knee op, but could return before the end of the year.
Maxime Awoudja has an Achilles injury, while Lilian Egloff has a muscle tear. Erik Thommy has fractured elbow and Clinton Mola has a hip injury.
Philipp Forster is training again after a calf problem.
Schalke 04 possible starting lineup:
Rønnow; Ludewig, Sane, Nastasic, Oczipka; Bentaleb, Mascareli, Harith; Skrzybski, Ibisevic, Raman
Stuttgart possible lineup:
Kobel; Stenzel, Karazor, Kempf; Wamangituka, Mangala, Endo, Coulibaly; Didavi, Castro; Kalajdzic
Schalke vs Stuttgart Match Statistics
Kabak scored three goals in 15 Bundesliga outings in a six-month stay in Stuttgart, before joining Schalke in June 2019.
Schalke may be 21 league games without a win, but have more wins against Stuttgart (38) than they do against any other team in the Bundesliga.
Amina Harith has a goal and two assists in his two appearances against Stuttgart so far.
Gonzalez scored his first goal in the Bundesliga against Schalke time the teams met in December 2018.
Stuttgart have failed to defeat the actual blues in any of their last eight games, with only two of a maximum 24 points from those games.
However, the VfB captain Gonzalo Castro has lost only two of 11 games away from home in Stuttgart Bundesliga during his career (three wins, six draws).
Stuttgart vs Schalke Head
Stuttgart have a 44-43 advantage against Schalke with 16 draws in 103 games. Schalke has won six of the last eight games with two draws.
These clubs met in the 2018/19 Bundesliga season. Schalke won 3-1 at Stuttgart before a 0-0 draw in Gelsenkirchen.
Stuttgart vs Schalke: Prediction
Baum's men lost 3-0 on the road last day of the match against Dortmund. Meanwhile, the men of Pellegrino Matarazzo took place with a 1-1 draw at home to Koln.
As things stand, the blue Royals are one of the two worst teams in the Bundesliga. They have lost all but one of their games, and the only tie was against the relatively inexperienced Union Berlin.
They have also granted the highest number of goals of all teams in the competition, and achieve least as well. In fact, they have a total of an official victory so far in the whole of 2020 and also in January.
On the other hand, their counterparts were unbeaten in nine of its previous general of the match-ups ten and are in a four-game winless on the road as well. To cite another statistic, they have scored two goals or more in each of their away games this season.
Given these statistics, it is clear that Schalke are the big losers this weekend, and the right choice is to back Stuttgart for a win.
Schalke vs Stuttgart Betting Tips
Draw no bet: Stuttgart @ 1.60 (3/5)
Stuttgart to win either half @ 1.67 (2/3).
