Wolfsburg vs Hoffenheim – 23/09/2019 Preview

On Monday match Wolfsburg vs Hoffenheim will close the 5th round of German Bundesliga, at Volkswagen Arena, in Wolfsburg. Two great teams will face each other in a very interesting confrontation. Both started this season differently, so read our thoughts about this Wolfsburg vs Hoffenheim Bundesliga match, here below.

These teams always play very creative football. During the last 5 matches, Wolfsburg won twice, once Hoffenheim at Wirsol Rhein-Neckar Arena and finished 2 matches with a draw. In 4 out of 5 matches between them matches finished with goals from both. Only once Hoffenehim won with 3:0 result playing at home in 2017/18 season.

Wolfsburg

Wolfsburg passed a very confident and successful preparation period. They already are unbeaten in 7 different competition games this season. In Bundesliga, they stand at 5th place with two wins and 2 draws. In the games against Paderborn and Dusseldorf Wolfsburg were behind and made a draw comeback, however, failed to take all 3 points. Recently, Wolves are between 3 teams in German highest league whitout losings.

Hosts finished at 16th place in 16/17 and 17/18 season and were on the edge of falling down to Bundesliga 2. Last year, the ex-Champions of Germany proved that they still saved their solid character and can play on the highest level. They were qualified to UEFA Europa League and already took a very strong victory over the Ukrainian Oleksandriya. VfL Wolfsburg led by double in the first half and the teams exchanged by one goal in the second half. In general, Wolves were strong favourites in this match and in Group I also.

Ignacio Camacho, Xaver Schlager, Daniel Ginczek, John Anthony Brooks and Koen Casteels will miss next match due to injuries.

Hoffenheim

Die Kraichgauer last season finished outside the Europe competition qualified positions. They were 9th totally failing the end of the season with 3 lost out of the 4 last matches over Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen and Mainz. This years also started for them very confidently, as they won only one goal against Werder at Wirsol Rhein-Neckar Arena, thanks to opponents red card. After 4 rounds they collected only 4 points what is the really weak result for such a talented previously team. The team brought several good players. However, sold three very important and talented team leaders. Joelinton joined Newcastle for 44m €, Kerem Demirbay departured to Bayer Leverkusen for 32m € and Nico Schulz came to Borussia Dortmund for 25m €. From the financial side, they made really great deals and earned 86m €. However, because of this, the quality of the game was very affected.

Two strong team leaders Andrej Kramaric and Steven Zuber will miss the game against Wolfsburg in Bundesliga.

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