Bitter news for VfB Stuttgart! On the last matchday of the Bundesliga, the Swabians celebrated their 17th league win of the current season with a 2-0 win against 1. FC Union Berlin, thus consolidating third place and keeping BVB at bay, but Stuttgart has to be successful for success pay dearly. The club announced this on Tuesday.
The 22-year-old defender Anthony Rouault will be missing from VfB Stuttgart for a long time. The Frenchman, who started five of the last seven competitive games, suffered a broken jaw in the 2-0 win against 1. FC Union Berlin.
On Tuesday, VfB announced that Rouault has now undergone successful surgery but will not be available to the club for four to six weeks.
Particularly bitter: Rouault had already broken his nose since mid-February and had recently played with a face mask.
The Stuttgart team will definitely miss Rouault on Saturday (March 16th, 6:30 p.m.) against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, and he is also expected to play in the league game against 1. FC Heidenheim (March 31st, 5:30 p.m.). to come early. The same applies to the top game against BVB (April 6th, 6:30 p.m.) and also against Eintracht Frankfurt on April 13th (6:30 p.m.) VfB will probably have to make do without Rouault.
Rouault and VfB Stuttgart announced a contract extension
A comeback should be aimed at against Werder Bremen (April 21st, 3:30 p.m.) or league leaders Bayer Leverkusen (April 27th).
The central defender only moved to VfB on loan in the summer of 2024, but the Swabians recently announced that the commitment would now run permanently until June 30, 2027.
“I am very happy to continue playing for VfB in the future. The team and the staff as well as the good results have helped me to integrate. I have been very well received and have been able to gain important and good experience here so far,” said Rouault quoted in the message about his whereabouts on “vfb.de”.
The first long outage is likely to be the first negative experience on the Neckar.