Bayern Dominates Stuttgart in Five-Goal Showdown
Bayern did what Bayern do. They absorbed the early storm, waited for Stuttgart’s legs to tire, then tore them apart.
“We gave everything from the start,” Aleksandar Pavlovic told Sky, still buzzing at the final whistle. “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.”
Stuttgart start brave, Bayern turn brutal
VfB Stuttgart came out bold, front-foot, and unafraid. They pressed high, snapped into duels and matched the champions for the opening 15 minutes. Bayern were pushed back, briefly uncomfortable.
Then the grip tightened.
Once Bayern settled, the pattern flipped. Possession, territory, control – all in red. The breakthrough arrived in the 21st minute, Dayot Upamecano steering the hosts in front and puncturing Stuttgart’s early optimism.
From there, Bayern played with that familiar, suffocating authority. Stuttgart hung on, survived to the break, and still had a punch left to throw.
They landed it right after the restart.
Just seven minutes into the second half, Josha Vagnoman stunned the home crowd with the equaliser in the 52nd minute, a rare moment where Bayern’s defensive line got caught and Stuttgart finally made them pay.
The response was merciless.
Three minutes later, Michael Olise restored Bayern’s lead in the 55th minute, and with Stuttgart still reeling, disaster struck again. Vagnoman, the man who had given them hope, turned the ball into his own net in the 58th minute to make it 3-1. In six frantic minutes, the game had been ripped away from VfB.
From there, it became a question of damage limitation.
Pavlovic and Diaz add the gloss
Stuttgart’s resistance thinned as the minutes ticked by. Bayern smelled blood and, as Pavlovic had promised, they did not stop.
The young midfielder got his reward late on, striking in the 82nd minute to push the score to 4-1. Any lingering doubt vanished. Stuttgart were beaten, stretched, and exhausted.
Luis Diaz then arrived to apply the final flourish in stoppage time, making it 5-1 in the 90+2nd minute and underlining the gulf that had opened up after the break.
If the scoreline felt heavy, Deniz Undav thought it could have been worse.
Undav’s brutal verdict
Stuttgart’s new captain did not sugarcoat it.
“If Fabi (Bredlow, VfB goalkeeper) had not had such an outstanding day today, you would have conceded eight or nine here,” Undav admitted on Sky. “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.”
No excuses. Just a blunt assessment from a leader who knows what this fixture represents.
The two matches against Bayern each season? “Bonus games,” as Undav called them. Free hits, in theory. But this one hurt.
“Unfortunately, it became so clear-cut,” the Germany international lamented. Bayern turned a competitive contest into a statement win, exactly the kind of ruthless home performance that has broken so many visitors before.
Lights out – literally – for VfB
As if the evening needed another strange twist, Stuttgart had to deal with an unusual scene at half-time. Down in the dressing rooms, the lights went out.
A power issue, as Sebastian Hoeneß later confirmed to Sky.
“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,” the VfB coach said with a wry smile.
On the pitch, though, he knew things were far from fine.
“We have to improve, no question,” Hoeneß added. “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.”
That is the challenge for Stuttgart now: to treat nights like this not as a humiliation, but as a benchmark. Bayern will move on, chasing more goals, more wins, more statements.
Stuttgart must decide what they take from a game where the lights flickered, the legs faded, and the champions showed exactly how unforgiving the top level can be.
