22 Aug 2024 - Der Tagesspiegel Von Nico Schmook Am 23. August beginnt die neue Saison in der Fußball-Bundesliga. Erstmals seit über einem Jahrzehnt bestreitet der FC Bayern diesmal nicht das Eröffnungsspiel, diese Ehre gebührt Meister Bayer Leverkusen. Wir blicken in drei Teilen auf die 18 Erstligaklubs und arbeiten uns dabei von unten nach oben. In Teil 2 geht es um die Teams, die im letzten Jahr im Mittelfeld der Liga landeten.Meistert Trainer Frank Schmidt mit seinem Team auch die Dreifachbelastung? VfL Wolfsburg Das Ziel: Die Rückkehr in das europäische Geschäft. Auch wenn die Wolfsburger dieses Ziel zuletzt regelmäßig verfehlt haben, wurde es wieder ausgegeben. Der Kader ist zwar genau dafür gebaut, doch die Niedersachsen sind und bleiben eine Wundertüte. Der Kader: Ist einer, der um Europa mitspielen muss. Ralph Hasenhüttl kann auf ein eingespieltes Gerüst bauen, für einen wirklichen Umbruch ist in diesem Sommer auch überraschend wenig in Sachen Transfers passiert. Alles in allem...

Photo by Daniel Kopatsch/Getty Images https://www.bavarianfootballworks.com/2024/7/30/24208483/bayern-munich-bundesliga-preview-wolfsburg-koen-casteels-ralph-hasenhuttl-jonas-wind Can Wolfsburg reverse its fortunes under a new head coach? By LoneStar249 Updated Jul 31, 2024, 3:54pm CEST Since winning the league in 2009, Wolfsburg has produced mixed results ranging from 2nd in 2014-15 to relegation zone finishes in 2016-17 and 2017-18. Wolfsburg dropped six points to Bayern Munich last season, losing 2-1 at home and 2-0 in Munich. The club will replace long time goalkeeper Koen Casteels with some younger blood, but strategically used transfer funds to upgrade at a few other positions. With a new manager in place, Wolfsburg will set its sights on a top-8 finish in hopes of qualifying for European competition next season. Manager: Ralph Hasenhüttl, 1st year Total market value: €219.80M Starting XI market value: €153.5M Formation: 4-2-3-1 or 3-4-3 Key Players: Jonas Wind, forward; Lovro...

https://bundesitalia.com/2020/10/01/ridle-baku-mainz-germania/ Brevilineo, veloce e duttile . Sono queste le prime caratteristiche che saltano all’occhio guardando uno dei nuovi talenti emergenti del calcio tedesco: Ridle Baku . Il prodotto delle giovanili del Mainz fa parte del club dal 2007, quando aveva nove anni. A vent’anni è diventato un titolare e si è trasferito al Wolfsburg, per giocare in Europa League. La carriera di Baku prese una piega inaspettata il pomeriggio del 29 aprile 2018 . Il giovane calciatore si stava recando con la seconda squadra del Mainz a Friburgo, quando ricevette la chiamata della dirigenza, che lo fece scendere alla prima stazione di servizio: al club serviva un centrocampista. Troppi infortuni. Il giocatore venne poi recuperato da una vettura del club, e portato alla Opel Arena. Dove il Mainz, la prima squadra, sfidava il Lipsia. Il già straordinario pomeriggio di Baku divenne indimenticabile: partì tra gli 11 titolari, scendendo in campo come mezz’a...

WOLF - First win against one of the top teams Wolfsburg failed to win a single game against one of the Bundesliga’s top teams in the Hinrunde .  In the opening game of the Rückrunde, however, they secured their fir st victory over one of those sides in 2020/21 with a 1-0 win in Leverkusen.  The Wolves are up to fourth in the table (their highest position to date this season) and are now one of the top teams themselves . WOLF - Better than in their title-winning season 32 points after 18 matchdays is Wolfsburg’s second-best Bundesliga tally .  They’ve only been better off once: 37 points in 2014/15, when they finished second .  Even in their 2008/09 title-winning season, the Wolves didn’t have as many points to their name at this stage of the campaign – back then they “only” had 27 . FRI - Back on a winning run Since the disappointing 3-1 home defeat to Mainz on MD-8, Freiburg have lost just one Bundesliga game, being narrowly beaten 2-1 at Bayern on MD-16 .  T...

di Roberto Brambilla Bundesitalia.com, venerdì 29 gennaio 2021 Werkself . Il Bayer Leverkusen che affronta il RB Lipsia per continuare a sognare la Bundesliga, è la “squadra della fabbrica”. I rossoneri però non sono l’unico Werkself del calcio tedesco. Ovvero la squadra legata a un’azienda. Leverkusen, una formazione per gli operai Nel febbraio del 1903, Wilhelm Hauschild, uno dei 70 operai della Bayer scrive una lettera ai vertici aziendali per chiedere supporto nella fondazione di una società sportiva .  Nell’estate 1904 nasce il Turn-und-Spielverein Bayer 04 Leverkusen, che tre anni dopo, nel 1907 si doterà di una sezione calcistica.  Peraltro nel 1953 la Bayer a Krefeld farà nascere un altro club con il suo nome. È il Bayer Uerdingen che nel 1985 vincerà la Coppa di Germania.  Nel 1995 l’azienda farmaceutica si sgancerà dal club, contribuendo così a farla sprofondare nelle serie minori. L’evoluzione del Wolfsburg I “Lupi”, al contrario del Bayern, non sono nati come ...

https://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/bayer-leverkusen/preview/preview-leverkusen-vs-wolfsburg-prediction-team-news-lineups_431470.html By Brett Curtis , Sportsmole - January 22, 2020 Bayer Leverkusen take on Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga on Saturday, with the visitors able to move level on points with their forthcoming opponents in the table with a victory. That prospect will have been made all the more difficult by Leverkusen's morale boosting 2-1 victory over Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday , though. Match preview Indeed, after 4 league games without a victory, Peter Bosz 's side looked like the team prior to the winter break once more on their way to a deserved win against their Champions League qualification rivals. Moussa Diaby in particular was in inspired form throughout the 90 minutes, firing Leverkusen into the lead with a decisive finish in the first half before setting up teenage sensation Florian Wirtz for the winner 10 minutes from time after a sensational counte...

Wolfsburg's centre-back John Brooks may not have Hoffenheim's top scorer Andrej Kramaric to contend with on Sunday. - © DFL  US national team centre-back John Brooks is part of the second-tightest defence in the Bundesliga, and he may not have Hoffenheim's top scorer Andrej Kramaric to contend with when Wolfsburg host the Sinsheimers on Sunday (kick-off: 3.30pm CET/2.30pm GMT/10.30am ET). Latest Brooks is the only Wolfsburg defender to have started all six games for Oliver Glasner's side this season, but regardless of whom the hulking left-footer has had for company, the Wolves have only let in four goals - a tally second only to Borussia Dortmund's (2) at this early stage of the season.  Unfortunately for Sunday's hosts, they have only scored one more goal at the other end, which is a league third-worst record .  Wolfsburg only mustered four shots on target in last Sunday's 1-1 draw at Hertha Berlin, a result which left them, perhaps unsurprisingly, in ...

https://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/wolfsburg/preview/preview-wolfsburg-vs-hoffenheim-prediction-team-news-lineups_421341.html by  Brett Curtis   Wolfsburg host Hoffenheim on Sunday as the 2020-21 Bundesliga continues, with the two sides separated by a single point and place in the table. The hosts are one of only two sides left unbeaten in the German top flight, having drawn five of their opening six matches , while Hoffenheim are without a win since beating Bayern Munich prior to the international break. Match preview It has been a curious start to the season for Oliver Glasner 's side. Not many sides in recent history can have remained unbeaten after six games yet occupy a place in the bottom half of the table, but that is where Wolfsburg find themselves having only won once all season. That win came against Arminia Bielefeld a couple of weeks ago, but was promptly followed up with another draw at Bruno Labbadia's Hertha Berlin last weekend. Glasner replaced his opp...

https://www.bundesliga.com/en/bundesliga/news/wolfsburg-augsburg-live-line-ups-stats-weghorst-brooks-niederlechner-13076 Latest / WOLFSBURG Wolfsburg may be yet to taste victory in the Bundesliga in 2020/21, but Oliver Glasner's side are also undefeated after draws with Bayer Leverkusen and Freiburg .  The Wolves are also looking to bounce back from the disappointment of a UEFA Europa League play-off defeat to AEK Athens in midweek.  Last season's top scorer Weghorst is still chasing his first goal of the domestic campaign with Josip Brekalo the only Wolfsburg player to find the back of the net in the Bundesliga.  Both should start at the weekend having played on Thursday, with Admir Mehmedi continuing in the No.10 role.  First-choice goalkeeper Koen Casteels could be missing, though, after he pulled up with a knee problem in the warm-up before the Freiburg game. Pavao Pervan is on standby.  Ridle Baku joined from Mainz on Thursday and could be an immedi...

https://www.vfl-wolfsburg.de/en/news-detail/news-detail/detail/news/new-attacker/ 2.10.2020 VfL Wolfsburg have strengthened their attacking department with the signing of Maximilian Philipp on loan from Dynamo Moscow. The 26-year-old, who can operate in a variety of positions across the front line, arrives from the Russian Premier League outfit on a one-year deal and will wear the number 17 jersey for the Wolves. Following the signings of Bartosz Bialek, Maxence Lacroix and Ridle Baku , Philipp is the fourth new face at Wolfsburg this summer. “Very good talks” The Bundesliga is familiar territory for Philipp, who scored 20 goals in 88 Bundesliga appearances for former clubs SC Freiburg and Borussia Dortmund .  The Berlin native made 29 competitive outings for Dynamo last season, registering 9 goals.  In 2017 he helped Germany win the U21 European Championship alongside VfL midfielders Maximilian Arnold and Yannick Gerhardt .  “The year in Moscow allowed me to develop ...

https://www.vfl-wolfsburg.de/en/news-detail/news-detail/detail/news/ridle-baku-joins-wolves/ The 22-year-old has signed a five-year contract with VfL VfL Wolfsburg have bolstered their ranks with the signing of Ridle Baku. The 22-year-old German-Congolese player, who can operate in a number of positions in defence and midfield , joins the Wolves from Bundesliga rivals 1. FSV Mainz 05 on a five-year contract through to 2025 . The right-footer becomes the Green-and-Whites’ third signing of the new season following the arrivals of striker Bartosz Bialek and defender Maxence Lacroix . Baku will wear the number 20 shirt at VfL. Goal on league debut Mainz-born Baku started playing football with the 05ers, going through all the youth teams at FSV before being promoted to the first team in summer 2017. After making his Mainz debut in a 3-1 victory over VfB Stuttgart in the last 16 of the DFB Cup on 19 December 2017, Baku made his Bundesliga bow in a 3-0 win against RB Leipzig on 29 April 201...

https://langolodifritzwalter.wordpress.com/2020/03/29/wolfsburg-97-i-lupi-in-bundesliga/?fbclid=IwAR0GsvNH8ckjTK9YpcTuQFlYGQnPYcDJJX3zjQzXQFLawm_RK2djoe4C54g Roberto Brambilla 29 marzo 2020 Bayern Monaco, Bayer Leverkusen, Hoffenheim, Augsburg, RB Lipsia e Wolfsburg.  Sei squadre, sei storie e un punto in comune: essere le uniche squadre a non essere mai retrocesse dalla Bundesliga.  Una massima serie, in cui il  Wolfsburg è arrivato nel 1997 . In precedenza i Lupi l’avevano sfiorata più volte. Due in maniera clamorosa.  Nel 1970, il Wolfsburg, secondo nella Regionalliga Nord , uno dei cinque gironi in cui era articolata la seconda serie, era arrivato quarto (su cinque) nel gruppo 2 della Aufstiegsrunde, la fase finale che determinava le (due) promozioni alla Bundesliga.  Nel 1994-1995 invece la mancata salita nella massima serie era stata ancora più bruciante . Dopo essere stato tra i protagonisti della 2.Bundesliga e averla guidata nella fase centrale del tor...

https://www.getfootballnewsgermany.com/2020/2020-21-bundsliga-preview-wolfsburg/ 2019-20: 7. As is always the case in the Bundesliga. The race to finish in a European position is a close one and the 2019/20 season was no different. Just seven points separated Hoffenheim in sixth and Eintracht Frankfurt in ninth, with Wolfsburg occupying seventh , the final European spot and just one point ahead of Freiburg .  The Wolves have suffered a torrid time of late under the tutelage of Valérien Ismaël, Andries Jonker and Martin Schmidt between October 2016 and February 2019 but the appointment of Bruno Labbadia steadied the ship before bosses appointed LAS K head coach Oliver Glasner on 1 July 2019. Under the Austrian , Wolfsburg have looked like a competing side. Glasner took Wolfsburg on a nine-game unbeaten run at the start of his tenure in the Bundesliga before a 3-0 defeat against Borussia Dortmund on matchday nine.  With a preference to play a 3-4-3 in the early stages, it wa...