Werkself scores at third place in Stuttgart

It wasn't just labelled a top match, it was one too: The clash between the third-placed team from Swabia and the leaders from Leverkusen featured plenty of pace, intense duels and numerous finishing moves. Florian Wirtz equalised the lead of Stuttgart, who were superior in the first half, shortly after the break. As a result, the Werkself remain the only unbeaten team in Europe's top five leagues in the 2023/24 season.

Bayer 04 thus remained unbeaten in their 22nd competitive match this season (19 wins, 3 draws) - only twice in German professional football has a team started a season with an even better record: Werkself themselves as a second-division team in the 1978/79 promotion season (23 games) and Hamburger SV in 1982/83 (24). Meanwhile, Bayer 04 are undefeated in Stuttgart for the twelfth time in a row - no other club in professional football has currently gone so long without defeat away from home.

And these figures for the match are also impressive: the players on the pitch fired a total of 40 shots on goal, 18 of which were scored by Leverkusen.