56.
18:44
Tooor for VfL Wolfsburg, 2-2 by Mohamed Amoura
The green-whites hit back and equalized again. Adam Daghim has plenty of space on the right wing and finds Saël Kumbedi lurking in the center. At the perfect moment, he passes into the path of Mohamed Amoura, who goes two meters and then shoots with his right from 15 meters. The powerful shot is central, but hits under the crossbar at 110 km/h, unsustainable for Oliver Baumann. Everything back to zero.
55.
18:44
A little bit out of nowhere, the wolves are now becoming dangerous. From the backcourt it is Vinicius Souza who lights the torch with his right, but finishes a little too centrally. Oliver Baumann can defuse this pounding from 19 meters with a fist defense.
54.
18:42
Meanwhile, the people of Sinsheim are pushing ahead and trying to profit from Lower Saxony’s passive phase. However, another Kramarić shot is safely parried by Grabara.
53.
18:41
It would actually be up to VfL to react now. The body language of Lower Saxony is anything but good after the setback. Paul Simonis also looks a bit perplexed on the sidelines.
50.
6:37 p.m
Great for 1899 Hoffenheim, 1:2 by Grischa Prömel
Shortly after the break, TSG turned the game around and took a 2-1 lead. A Coufal cross somehow slips through to substitute Kramarić on the left wing, who passes the ball to the left again and then finds Prömel lurking at the second post. He wants it much more in the aerial duel than Souza, who is too passive, and heads it in from six meters, unstoppable for Grabara in the right corner.
49.
6:36 p.m
Eriksen takes a free kick from the right wing high into the Hoffenheim box, but under pressure Seelt heads well wide of the goal.
46.
18:34
The teams return to the pitch and the guests make a double change: Kabak and Kramarić come on for Hajdari and Asllani. VfL continues unchanged. The ball is rolling again.
46.
6:33 p.m
Substitution at 1899 Hoffenheim: Andrej Kramarić
46.
6:33 p.m
Substitution at 1899 Hoffenheim: Fisnik Asllani
46.
6:33 p.m
Substitution at 1899 Hoffenheim: Ozan Kabak
46.
6:33 p.m
Substitution at 1899 Hoffenheim: Albian Hajdari
46.
6:33 p.m
Kick-off of the 2nd half
45.
6:19 p.m
Half-time conclusion:
At halftime the score was 1-1 between Wolfsburg and Hoffenheim, which certainly reflects how the game was going. Both teams were initially hesitant going forward, but didn’t do much defensively before the Wolves scored the opening goal with their very first chance. The Sinsheimers took a little longer to get into the game, but did the same as VfL. The Kraichgauers also scored with their first shot on goal, after which the game increasingly shifted back to the center. Apart from an Amoura side-kick in stoppage time, there were no other notable shots, which is why the draw at half-time was the logical consequence. There is still a lot of room for improvement on both sides offensively.
45.
6:16 p.m
End of 1st half
45.
6:16 p.m
The Lower Saxons follow up again and ultimately it is Amoura who, after a high diagonal ball, receives the ball with his chest and then screws his way up from 13 meters to the left for a side kick. The ball comes sharply to the short corner, but Baumann is there.
45.
6:16 p.m
Addition time: 1 minute will be added.
45.
6:15 p.m
Eriksen runs up, but sinks the free kick, which was too low, into the wall, which at least gets him a corner kick, which, however, achieves nothing at all.
44.
6:15 p.m
Koulierakis, for his part, now cleverly takes the free kick against Burger in the opposing penalty area. This gave the Lower Saxony team a dangerous dead ball from 22 meters from a central position shortly before the break. Arnold and Eriksen are ready.
41.
18:12
When a high ball goes deep, Touré and Koulierakis rattle into each other. The referee interpreted this collision, in which Touré remained dazed, as an offensive foul, which is certainly debatable. After a short treatment, Touré continues straight away.
39.
6:10 p.m
Grischa Prömel is sent out on the right wing, but cannot get past Vinicius Souza, so he passes to Leon Avdullahu in the backcourt, whose weak pass is intercepted in the box. Such overall rather tame advances continue to predominate in this game.
36.
6:07 p.m
Hoffenheim combined forward in a remarkable way, but when passing from the left, Asllani intercepted the ball from an unfavorable position instead of letting it pass to the completely free Lemperle at his back. So this attack comes to nothing.
33.
6:05 p.m
The Lower Saxony team want to react immediately, but Svanberg is unable to get a pass from the edge of the penalty area on goal despite having a clear shooting lane. Clearly over.
31.
6:00 p.m
Great for 1899 Hoffenheim, 1-1 by Wouter Burger
Now the guests find the gap for the first time and promptly equalize to make it 1-1. Hajdari chips the ball high onto the right wing, where Coufal has a lot of space and then carefully pulls the cross into the back area. The flat pass lands directly at the incoming Burger, who sinks the quite demanding ball from twelve meters with his left into the right corner, making it unstoppable for Grabara.
30.
6:00 p.m
First a throw-in from the right is thrown high into the Lower Saxony box and then shortly afterwards Coufal can cross again. Both balls are resolutely cleared by the VfL defense, which has so far been solid.
27.
5:57 p.m
Once again, Touré allows himself to be literally boiled down by the wide-awake Kumbedi when he advances down the left. The guests’ first significant approach to the goal is still a long time coming.
24.
5:55 p.m
There is still no way for the Sinsheimers to get through – also because even Mohamed Amoura works backwards from the game to his own baseline and is involved in the defensive game. In terms of effort, VfL is hardly recognizable after the cup defeat against Kiel.
21.
17:52
Bazoumana Touré picks up speed on the left wing after a high ball deep and also threatens to deny Saël Kumbedi. But the Wolfsburg player pulls up, stays with it and separates the Hoffenheim winger from the ball with a perfectly timed tackle. Strong defensive action from the 20-year-old.
18.
5:50 p.m
The wolves swarm out again and break into the Kraichgau penalty area again, where Eriksen passes through to Svanberg, who falls to the ground in a duel with Burger. However, the referee immediately decides to continue playing.
17.
5:48 p.m
While Lower Saxony now has much more confidence in the ball passing through its own ranks, TSG is clearly struggling with conceding a goal. It’s not yet the game of the Sinsheimers, who keep losing the ball carelessly.
14.
5:43 p.m
Tooor for VfL Wolfsburg, 1-0 by Mohamed Amoura
Now the home team combine for the first time and promptly score the important goal to take the lead 1-0. Eriksen extends a pass to Svanberg, who starts in the center, who delays and then passes through at the perfect moment for Amoura. He penetrates the penalty area on the left, passes the ball past Baumann on the left and then safely sinks the ball into the empty goal from a very demanding angle. A great move.
13.
5:42 p.m
In the early stages, the game takes place almost exclusively in midfield, which is not only because both teams are still very hesitant going forward, but is also due to two secure defensive lines that don’t allow much.
10.
5:40 p.m
Bazoumana Touré finds the incoming Fisnik Asllani with a cross from the left wing, who heads past the Wolves goal from a very complicated angle but miles to the left. No danger.
8.
5:39 p.m
VfL is also still having a hard time going forward. There is still a lack of precision, especially with the final pass to the target players.
5.
5:34 p.m
Yellow card for Albian Hajdari (1899 Hoffenheim)
Hajdari comes clearly too late against Amoura and is shown an early yellow card for his unsuccessful tackle, with which he rustically knocks his opponent off his feet.
5.
5:34 p.m
The move to the goal is there, but the implementation is still lacking. The burger chip into the depths is also too steep for Touré and is safely picked up by Grabara.
3.
5:33 p.m
The Sinsheimers approach from the right, but Lemperle’s pass is far too steep for the incoming Avdullahu and ends up out of bounds. Wolfsburg goal kick.
1.
5:30 p.m
Kick-off in Wolfsburg. The home team will be wearing their green home colors. The guests from Kraichgau are dressed in white. Let’s go.
1.
5:30 p.m
Game start
5:01 p.m
The latest balance speaks in favor of the Wolves, who have only lost one of the last seven competitive games against Hoffenheim (four wins, two draws) and are currently unbeaten in four meetings with the blue-whites (two wins, two draws). A total of 17 of the 36 meetings between the two teams so far have gone to Lower Saxony (nine draws, ten defeats), who were last defeated by Sinsheim in front of their home crowd in February 2022.
16:52
What’s interesting is that corners may not be a factor today. After all, in addition to Hamburg and Mainz, two of the four Bundesliga teams, who were still without a corner goal at the start of the match day, collide here in a direct duel. However, Jonas Wind scored Wolfsburg’s last goal from a corner at the beginning of May in a 2-2 draw against today’s visitors from Kraichgau (final score: 2-2).
16:44
TSG Hoffenheim, on the other hand, is remarkably strong away from home this season. The kickers from Kraichgau secured ten out of twelve possible points on foreign pitches, which puts them in second place in the away table behind Bayern, who were able to achieve the maximum result in the distance. The Sinsheimers are already in the upper echelon of German football with as many away wins in 2025/26 as they did in the entire 2024/25 season (three).
16:34
VfL Wolfsburg is once again fighting against its miserable home record today. The Green-Whites have now played a whopping twelve Bundesliga home games without a win. This is not only a current negative club record, but also the longest losing streak of all 18 Bundesliga clubs. In the entire 2025 calendar year, the Lower Saxony team have only won one home game in the top echelon of German football – the first home game of the year against Gladbach (5:1).
16:26
At TSG, there are now two changes compared to the narrow defeat at Millerntor: Christian Ilzer orders Wouter Burger and Vladimír Coufal into the starting line-up for Alexander Prass and Andrej Kramarić (both bench).
16:24
Let’s take a look at how both coaches are approaching personnel today. VfL coach Paul Simonis reacts to the 0-1 home defeat against the Störche with three changes to his first team: Kamil Grabara returns between the posts after thigh problems for Marius Müller (bench). In addition, Adam Daghim and Mattias Svanberg are preferred over Dženan Pejčinović and Andreas Skov Olsen (both also bench).
16:23
Both teams said goodbye to the DFB Cup during the week. While the Sinsheimers failed dramatically in the penalty shootout 7:8 away at FC St. Pauli, the Wolves suffered a 0:1 home defeat against second division club Holstein Kiel. This means that the momentum that the Lower Saxony team built up in their recent 1-0 away win at HSV, which ended a six-game winless streak in the league (two draws, four defeats), is now a thing of the past.
16:22
Good day and welcome from the Volkswagen Arena. VfL Wolfsburg will welcome TSG Hoffenheim here today at 5:30 p.m. as part of the 9th matchday of the Bundesliga.