VfB Stuttgart vs Dynamo Dresden Prediction

Stuttgart's mixed month against Dresden's shakier run

Stuttgart's sample covers twelve wins from twenty matches, but it's a varied set spanning Bundesliga, Champions League and cup games. They beat Bayer Leverkusen and Paderborn in their last two outings, yet also lost at home to Mönchengladbach and Slovan Bratislava in that same spell.

VfB Stuttgart: 20 completed matches; Dynamo Dresden: 20 completed matches.

VfB Stuttgart

20 matches

Win

55% 11 / 20

Draw

10% 2 / 20

Loss

35% 7 / 20

Scored

47

Conceded

24

Difference

+23

Dynamo Dresden

20 matches

Win

50% 10 / 20

Draw

10% 2 / 20

Loss

40% 8 / 20

Scored

51

Conceded

26

Difference

+25

Dresden's record of ten wins from twenty comes almost entirely from the second division and domestic cup, and the recent run reads more losses than wins. They did beat Schalke to reach this round, but they've also lost to Hannover, Holstein Kiel and Hertha BSC in their last few league outings.

Neither side's form line is settled, which makes the gap in divisions less decisive than it might look.

Comparative Team Statistics: VfB Stuttgart vs Dynamo Dresden

Recent head-to-head leans Stuttgart's way

The last four meetings between these two have gone Stuttgart's way, including a DFB Pokal win in 2022 and two league wins either side of it. The only draw in that stretch was a 3-3 back in 2017.

Dresden's one big result came in 2016, a 5-0 home win, but that's nearly a decade old now and tells us little about either side's current squad.

Attacking names worth watching

The player data we have is limited to a handful of standout contributions rather than full squad news. D. Pejčinović has been among Stuttgart's scorers with a hat-trick in one outing, and Undav and Tiago Tomás have both chipped in with assists.

VfB Stuttgart:

Best scorers:

D. Pejčinović - 3

Best assist providers:

D. Undav - 2

Tiago Tomás - 1

Dynamo Dresden:

Best assist providers:

B. Bobzien - 2

K. Inanoglu - 1

N. Hauptmann - 1

For Dresden, Bobzien, Inanoglu and Hauptmann have all provided assists in recent matches. None of this confirms who starts in December, but it does point to goals coming from more than one source at both ends.

How the tie shapes up

Both clubs arrive here off cup wins from late October, Stuttgart edging past Paderborn and Dresden seeing off Schalke. That's the only direct context we have for how each side approaches this round.

With the match itself not happening until December and this snapshot taken in early November, injuries, suspensions or a change in form could easily move things before kickoff.