VfL Wolfsburg – VfB Stuttgart: Soccer Bet of the Day

VfL Wolfsburg won the match on the Niedersachsenstadion with Hannover 96 with a score of 1-0 due to the goal scored by Turkish midfielder Yunus Mallı in the 73rd minute. In the first two games played in 2018, the Wolfsburg group ended with a tie with Borussia Dortmund (0-0, away) and lost with Eintracht Frankfurt (1-3, home).

In the last 6 stages Martin Schmidt’s team has managed a single victory in Hannover, so he is still close to the relegation area, being 6 points away from Werder Bremen, a team that is on the deck for relegation / promotion. This season, “Die Wölfe” won only 4 matches in the 20 stages played, with Eintracht Frankfurt (1-0, away), SC Freiburg (3-1, home), Borussia Mönchengladbach (3-0, home) ) and Hannover 96 (1-0, away). The rest had a very high number of draws, not less than 11 and 5 defeats.

There will be a home match at the “Volkswagen Arena” with the VfB Stuttgart, which is necessarily won, taking into account the situation in the standings. With success, the “green” would make 26 points in the standings and would be much quieter before the match in the quarter-finals of the German Cup with FC Schalke 04 and the next one in Bremen with Werder. They had a poor balance in home games, where they won only 2 wins in 10 games. In the rest they had 6 draws and 2 defeats with Borussia Dortmund (0-3) and Eintracht Frankfurt (1-3).

In the tour, VfL Wolfsburg lost to Stuttgart with 1-0 (Chadrac Akolo 42). The hosts have a lot of problems, injuring US midfielder John Anthony Brooks, Spanish defensive midfielder Ignacio Camacho, Dutch midfielder Riechedly Bazoer, Polish right midfielder Jakub Blaszczykowski and offensive midfielder Daniel Didavi.

VfB Stuttgart started the year 2018 with a win on the “Mercedes-Benz Arena”, 1-0 (Niklas Stark 78 autogol) with Hertha BSC, but lost in the last two stages matches with FSV Mainz (2-3, away) and FC Schalke 04 (0-2, home). In the last 7 stages, the Stuttgart group had a very poor track record with a victory and six defeats.

Following the failure of FC Schalke 04, President Wolfgang Dietrich dismissed coach Hannes Wolf. In his place was the 43-year-old Turk Tayfun Korkut, who grew up in the Stuttgart region, and signed a contract until the summer of 2019. Former midfielder Tayfun Korkut began his professional career in the mid- 90 to Stuttgarter Kickers, then played at Fenerbahçe Istanbul, Real Sociedad and Espanyol Barcelona. After retirement, Tayfun Korkut trained several youth teams from Spain and Germany before taking command of the German teams Hannover 96, 1. FC Kaiserslautern or Bayer 04 Leverkusen.

One interesting thing is that VfL Wolfsburg had the most equal results in the Bundesliga, not less than 11, while the VfB Stuttgart only drew twice. In the standings of the disputed matches, “Die Roten” is in the last place with a catastrophic balance, equal to Hannover 96 (1-1) and 9 defeats. Players have a low morale because they managed to win only 3 points in the last 7 stages, but now they are expected to be more determined because they will go to Wolfsburg with a new coach.

“Die Schwaben” will play in the next round at home with Borussia Mönchengladbach, a team that fights for a Champions League spot, so it would be important to get points or points on the Volkswagen Arena. It should be noted, however, that VfB Stuttgart has 8 consecutive defeats at Wolfsburg! The guests have three injured players: the central defender Holger Badstuber, the defensive midfielder Matthias Zimmermann and the far-right Portuguese man Carlos Mané.

Bet of the Day: VfB Stuttgart over 0.5 goals +
Odds: 1.40