M'gladbach stay bottom after sixth straight defeat

M'gladbach lost again. The 1-2 defeat to Hoffenheim on Sunday 18 October was the sixth in six league games this season, and it keeps them last in the Bundesliga table with 0 points.

The shape of the season is now brutally simple. 6 played, 0 won, 0 drawn, 6 lost. 8 goals scored, 20 conceded, a goal difference of -12. The form column reads LLLLL, and the current run stands at 6L.

What makes the position stranger is the home record. M'gladbach have taken 5 points at home across 3 draws and 4 defeats — not good, but not the profile of a side rooted to the bottom. Away from home it collapses: 0 wins, 4 draws, 9 losses. Every point this season has come in front of their own supporters.

So the next fixture matters more than most. Stuttgart host M'gladbach on Friday 23 October in matchday 7, and it is a trip to a side sitting comfortably above the relegation places. Can a team that has not won anywhere all season suddenly win there? The away numbers say no.

For context, the top of the table is not running away with anything. Bayern lead on 14 points with a goal difference of +17, level on points with Dortmund in second at 14 and +7. Freiburg have 13, Leverkusen the same. The gap between first and fifth is four points. The gap between M'gladbach and safety is rather larger than that, and it grows with every defeat.

Six games is a sample. Six defeats is a pattern. Whatever the club thought the season would look like, the table at position 18 tells a different story, and the trip to Stuttgart arrives with no margin left to spend.