VfL Wolfsburg Haberleri

VfL won the last match of the first half of the season’s fixtures 5-0 away to Hertha BSC, stretching their incredible record of consecutive leagues wins to six (with 22 goals scored during the run and just one conceded!).

VfL Wolfsburg have strengthened their defensive ranks with the signing of 24-year-old left-back Nicolas Cozza, who joins the Green-and-Whites from French top-flight club Montpellier HSC with immediate effect. The Frenchman will wear the number eight shirt at VfL and has put pen to paper on a four-and-a-half-year contract through to 30 June 2027.

The form of these two teams could hardly be more different going into Saturday’s meeting at the Weserstadion (kick-off 15:30 CET). While VfL begin the second half of the season as the team of the moment, Werder have lost their last four Bundesliga matches. Regardless of omens, this clash between the only two north German clubs currently in the Bundesliga is a special one, as it will be their 50th encounter in the top flight.

Two teams in contrasting form go head to head when VfL Wolfsburg travel to Werder Bremen on Saturday 28 January (kick-off 15:30 CET). Werder, who have lost their last four games and have yet to register a point since the turn of the year, host a goal-hungry Wolves side currently on a six-match winning run. VfL have scored 22 goals and conceded just once in those half-dozen games, but head coach Niko Kovac is refusing to get carried away ahead of the meeting with a Bremen outfit who are “difficult to play against”. At Friday’s pre-match press conference, the Wolves boss also spoke about…

Attacking midfielder Josip Brekalo has left VfL Wolfsburg to join Serie A outfit Fiorentina with immediate effect. The 24-year-old Croatian arrived at the Wolves in summer 2016 from Dinamo Zagreb, and subsequently had loan spells at VfB Stuttgart and Torino. He made 129 competitive appearances overall for VfL, scoring 22 goals.

VfL Wolfsburg slipped to defeat as the second half of the season officially got under way on Saturday afternoon, with Niko Kovac’s side losing 2-1 away to Werder Bremen. Kevin Paredes (90′) was on target for the Wolves, whose 11-game unbeaten sequence came to an end in front of 41,000 supporters at the Weserstadion. Niclas Füllkrug (24′, 77′) scored twice for Bremen, with the result leaving VfL in seventh place in the table.

Maximilian Philipp will spend the rest of the season at SV Werder Bremen after VfL Wolfsburg agreed to loan the 28-year-old forward to the northern club until 30 June 2023. Since joining the Green-and-Whites from Dynamo Moscow in October 2020, Philipp has made 54 appearances for the Wolves in the Bundesliga, Champions League and DFB Cup, scoring seven goals.

1. FC Union Berlin and VfL both hit the ground running after the long winter break. However, while ‘Die Eisernen’ were able to record their third win of the new year in the Berlin derby on Saturday, the Wolves lost 2-1 at Werder Bremen in their first defeat in 10 league matches. The two teams go head to head in the last 16 of the DFB Cup on Tuesday 31 January (kick-off 20:45 CET).

When the final whistle goes in tonight’s DFB Cup round of 16 match between last year’s semi-finalists 1. FC Union Berlin and VfL (kick-off 20:45 CET), the Wolves will be happy if a very special personal record has also been continued. Should the Green-and-Whites make it through the knockout showdown, head coach Niko Kovac – who lifted the trophy with Eintracht Frankfurt in 2018 and with Bayern Munich in 2019 – will have won his 17th consecutive domestic cup match.

The Wolves are out of the DFB Cup following a 2-1 defeat at last year’s semi-finalists 1. FC Union Berlin in the round of 16. After early goals from Luca Waldschmidt for VfL (5’) and Robin Knoche for the hosts (12’), Kevin Behrens netted the winner for Union in the 79th minute.