Captain Maximilian Arnold thinks he’s in the wrong movie given his VfL Wolfsburg’s downward slide in the Bundesliga.
“It feels like you’re thinking: What’s actually going on here? It’s a very tricky situation,” said the three-time national player in an interview with “Sportradio Deutschland” and demanded: “We’re very well advised to get back to that To focus on the essentials. We should work together more on the pitch and then knock the buck.”
Arnold quickly has reasons for the collective weakness at hand. “These automatisms don’t exist yet. We sometimes sleep for a second or two and start running too late. Then there’s a chain of errors,” said the Olympic participant in Tokyo.
He doesn’t see the blame for the new coach Niko Kovac and the lack of consistency on the coaching bench: “We players are also to blame for this, we have to implement it. We have to move closer together.”
After five games, VfL is still without a win and is 17th in the table with just two points. Now, on Saturday (3:30 p.m.), the difficult away game against Europa League winners Eintracht Frankfurt with ex-coach Oliver Glasner is coming up. The game at Union Berlin follows (September 18). “They’re going to be disgusting. But I see them as an opportunity because nobody thinks we’re capable of anything.”