Union and Stuttgart defy xG and low expectations in joyous Berlin thriller | Andy Brassell

Few expected this Köpenick clash to deliver many thrills, but the two clubs served up eight first-half goalsIt was not the game, at the start of the weekend, that leapt from the fixtures page as a history maker. Even afterwards, if you looked at the numbers below the top line it hardly seemed a game to make you leap from your seat.Yet few first halves have scrambled perception and expectation as much as Union Berlin’s meeting with Stuttgart on Saturday evening. Fifty-one minutes and 4