Nobody doubts the qualities of the trainer Sebastian Hoeneß at VfB Stuttgart, who led the team from the table cellar to Bernabeu. But the journey together has arrived at a striking place with the cup game against FC Augsburg.
The T-shirt is available with a 50 percent discount. “After all the sh … it’s on the trip” Is printed, only that a plane can be seen instead of the three points.
VfB Stuttgart has spent two seasons in the 2nd league in the past ten years, the last in the 2019/20 season. After the climb it got tight, very narrow. Once a goal in added time saved VfB from relegation, the following season the Stuttgart team were happy to have reached that relegation.
The rescue was achieved in June 2023 through two confident victories against Hamburger SV. At that time, the coach was Sebastian Hoeneß. In April he replaced Bruno Labbadia, Stuttgart was the bottom of the table.
“After all the sh … go on a trip!” – Stuttgart celebrates his move into the Champions League on the 32nd matchday of last season
Hoeneß took over VfB in the last place in the table
So it wasn’t even two years ago that VfB was knee -deep in the Sch …. But the trip is over. In any case, the one because the T-shirts were printed. VfB Stuttgart qualified last season as a second in the table, before FC Bayern, for the Champions League.
Instead of Sandhausen, Aue and Wiesbaden, as in the 2nd league, we went to Bernabeu in Madrid. A royal climb that always increases and forgotten expectations, which was not so long ago.
Three defeats in one week
Three defeats one after the other, at least quietly, the question arises as to whether the trip could end in a figurative sense. The 0: 2 at the 1st FSV Mainz 05 After weak performance, was still ticked off as a game that was preceded by the big game. The 1: 4 against Paris Saint-Germain‘Due to the VfB from the Champions League, the strong opponent was excused. Too bad, but thanks for the trips in the elite league: that was the tenor who was heard.
Well, after the 1-2 in the home game against Borussia Mönchengladbach, a grumble is being heard. This is a stage under the brewing that is used in Swabian to bubble.
Just one point behind fourth place
VfB Stuttgart is fifth in the table, just one point behind RB Leipzig in fourth place. In other words, he has a good chance of going back to Europe in the 2025/26 season.
Be it about the Bundesliga, in which an important game at Borussia Dortmund is coming on Saturday, which is six places, but only three points behind the Stuttgart, or be it over the DFB Cup.
On Tuesday, VfB expects FC Augsburg to be seen live in the first and live stream at Sportschau. The Bavarian Swabians are considered an unpleasant opponent at all locations in the Bundesliga, but also as one who should be conquered. Stuttgart also belongs to them in February 2025. One of the first Bruddler could reactivate.
“Negative scenarios are not in my head”, Sebastian Hoeneß said before the quarter -finals during the press conference. The trainer reminded with a gripped saying that developments should be seen over a longer period of time than this: “Eight days ago we were world champions, now we are lifeguards.”
Treaty with Exit clause
This is so quick in an industry in which top clubs give every three or four days the opportunity to change moods or to solidify. VfB Stuttgart is on his journey before a game that does not allow differentiation. Keep on or out – how will nobody ask.
“We want to go to the next round, and that’s what it’s all about”, ” Hoeneß said that nobody doubts, on the contrary. Borussia Dortmund is said to have him on the list for a long -term solution that the club longs for. At FC Bayern, the name is traded again and again because of the name.
Sebastian Hoeneß ‘contract with VfB is valid until 2027. But there is an exit clause that revealed father and consultant Dieter shortly after the signature in spring 2024.
The journey together could be disturbed by discussions if the trip in the DFB Cup on Tuesday, February 4, 2025 was to end, less than two years after the first signature, in the middle of the Sch …