Bundesliga
Wolfsburg scores points and leaves the relegation zone
Updated May 3, 2026 – 9:30 p.mReading time: 2 minutes
Wolfsburg takes the lead against Freiburg, but cannot bring the win to the finish. They still make up a place in the table.
VfL Wolfsburg missed out on an important win in the Bundesliga relegation battle and had to settle for a 1-1 draw against SC Freiburg on Sunday evening. In a hard-fought game, Konstantinos Koulierakis gave the “Wolves” the lead in the 55th minute, but Philipp Lienhart prevented the club from the Autostadt from winning with his goal for Freiburg (75th).
By sharing points, Wolfsburg jumps from second to last to relegation place 16, past St. Pauli. But the clubs are level on points, only the goal difference, which is three goals better, gives Wolfsburg the advantage. Meanwhile, the point is enough for Freiburg to jump past Frankfurt to seventh place.
“Freiburg has a first-class team. We’re going to have quality there. We have to do something for the game ourselves,” said VfL coach Dieter Hecking shortly before his 450th Bundesliga game as a coach at DAZN: “It’s not just a number, I’m proud of it. It speaks for itself that you’ve done a lot of things right in your career.”
The Wolfsburg team, who will be without their injured captain Maximilian Arnold until the end of the season, were close to taking the lead in the 9th minute. Captain’s representative Christian Eriksen hit the post. Six minutes later, Dzenan Pejcinovic had a goal for VfL.
Nothing much happened after that. The Freiburg team, who had to make do without Patrick Osterhage and Max Rosenfelder, looked pretty tired amidst the strains of the European Cup. Nothing more came from the guests either. By the break it was becoming a bore.
At the start of the second half, Wolfsburg were more active again. The Hecking team was looking to win the ball early, the Freiburg defense didn’t always seem solid. In the 51st minute, VfL attacker Adam Daghim was denied by Freiburg goalkeeper Noah Atubolu. Wolfsburg’s lead was up in the air at this stage, the SC was far too passive. After just under an hour the time had come: following an Eriksen corner, the Greek Koulierakis was there with his head.
Only after falling behind did Freiburg wake up and increase the number of hits. The Wolves remained more dangerous, but Austrian substitute Lienhart scored the goal with a header for Freiburg.
