First bankruptcy after six wins: For VfL Wolfsburg, the 1: 2 (0: 1) at Werder Bremen should have been just a mishap.
“We will do everything we can to get the boys back on their feet and look positively ahead,” said coach Niko Kovac (51). And Marcel Schäfer (38), who succeeds Jörg Schmadtke as sporting director at the Wolves on February 1, said: “We will draw the right conclusions and do better next time.”
Preferably on Tuesday in the round of 16 of the DFB Cup at Union Berlin (8:45 p.m.). “A difficult task,” said Schäfer, “we can show that it was a small slip.” The defeat was “a signal to us that we cannot appear like this – defensively and offensively.”
According to captain Maximilian Arnold, everyone at seventh in the table “was aware that we might lose a game again, and yet I’m not scared and anxious when I look at the next few weeks,” said the midfielder.
After the game against Union, the wolves receive Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga. And if everyone at the factory club “gets back to 100 percent performance, we’ll be very, very difficult to beat,” said Arnold.