Samstag, 19. Dezember 2015

VfB Stuttgart - VfL Wolfsburg

Statistic:

- Stuttgart lost all their last 6 BL games to Wolfsburg.
- Both teams collected only 2 Points from the last 3 BL games (0-2-1).
- Stuttgart has the weakest numbers ever in club history with only 12 Points and -17 goals.
- Wolfsburg won only 1 road game this Season so far.
- They were not able to collect more as 6 Points on the road what is less for a top team.
- Also away from home they are very harmless and scoring only 3 goals in 7 matches.

It was very important for Stuttgart to advance in Cup above all against a lower division team from Braunschweig. Despite the big problems and missed penalty they managed in a very hard fight to win 3-2 after extra time. This cost additional energy and some of their players looked very tired at the end of this game. In this case they have to rest a bit more and hope that they are fresh enough for the last game this year because they need all their power against a very good opponent. 
It is seen that the team is much more compact now and plays a much better defensive style as under former Coach Zorniger. Of course there are always some mistakes in their game but they are far away from such bad play. Interim Coach Kramny has found the right balance after the 1-4 in Dortmund. Against Mainz it was seen that they work better and much better together now. Up front they are very less on options as most of the offensive players are injured. The hopes are on youngster Werner but he is not real attacker but he must play there. If they want to have a chance in this encounter they have to minimize their mistakes and play very compact and allow not much on the other side they must be very clinical in front of the goal. Maybe they get more space against a playing team from Wolfsburg what are their hopes.

The team from VW town wants to be a big rival for Bayern Munich but the situation is getting different after the “VW-Gate“. The sponsoring is more less now and they have to look what they are able to invest and get from Champions League. Therefore no big transfers expected in the future. Additional they are on some downtrend lately. They were not able to win one of the last two and lost some space to the top 2 Bayern and BvB. This is also due to their weak away performances. They were not able to win much, only 1 time against newcomer Darmstadt with a lucky goal from Caligiuri after some help from Darmstadt’s keeper. In all the other road games they had big problems although they have a great squad to choose. Only at home they showed the real strength so far. If they do not want to fall down more they have to find some solutions for the games away.

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