VfL 2024 still without a win
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Despite the ongoing negative series under Niko Kovac, VfL Wolfsburg is sticking with its coach. Sports director Sebastian Schindzielorz confirmed this after the 2-3 home defeat against VfB Stuttgart. “That’s what we’ve communicated in the last few weeks and we stand by it,” said the 45-year-old in the ZDF’s “Aktuelle Sportstudio” on Saturday evening.
“This is of course not a pleasant situation, it is of course gnawing at us,” admitted Schindzielorz in view of the ongoing downward trend. “We will not give up, we will pick ourselves up again this week and try again next weekend,” he announced. VfL is the only Bundesliga club other than Darmstadt 98 that is still waiting for a win this year, but has only lost twice in eight games. In the 2024 annual table, Wolfsburg is in 14th place with six points.
“Everyone likes it when there are successes, at the moment it’s not like that,” said Kovac. His team, which started with European Cup ambitions, has at least an eight-point cushion over the relegation spot in 13th place. “We have no choice but to continue to work and fight and turn this in the right direction,” explained the 52-year-old Croatian. The next opponent will be leaders Bayer Leverkusen away on Sunday next week. “We are close. We have to minimize the mistakes; there have been too many mistakes in the last few weeks. Because if you don’t manage to keep a clean sheet, then it will be difficult.”
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Captain Maximilian Arnold (29) also stated that the season with Wolfsburg without a win in nine Bundesliga games was “brutal”. He doesn’t know a simple recipe for success. “We just have to throw ourselves into everything, into every duel. Because now I don’t give a shit how we do it – the main thing is that we win. All this telling just doesn’t help, we just have to move on. Because if we just talk, do and act here, nothing has ever come of it.”
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