Two days before departing for their training camp in Austria, VfB beat fifth-division side SSV Reutlingen 4-0 in their second friendly of pre-season. Silas, Chris Führich, Lilian Egloff and Luca Pfeiffer got the goals for the Cannstatt boys.
Debuts for summer signings
Both of VfB’s summer signings so far were handed their debuts in Reutlingen, with Wooyeong Jeong playing the first half and Jamie Leweling the second. Fabian Bredlow and Enzo Millot were absent with muscle problems, while Nikolas Nartey was unavailable because of a knee issue.
VfB head coach Sebastian Hoeneß: “I think we played better than last week, particularly in the first half. We weren’t as generous without the ball and we were more dynamic going forward. It was a professional performance but we were lacking a bit of a clinical edge. Even so, it was a decent performance on the whole.”
VfB line-up
First-half
41 Dennis Seimen, 2 Waldemar Anton ©, 7 Maximilian Mittelstädt, 10 Wooyeong Jeong, 14 Silas, 15 Pascal Stenzel, 16 Atakan Karazor, 17 Genki Haraguchi, 20 Luca Pfeiffer, 23 Dan-Axel Zagadou, 27 Chris Führich.
Second-half
41 Dennis Seimen, 2 Waldemar Anton © (75′ Mattis Hoppe), 7 Maximilian Mittelstädt (75′ Gil Dias), 15 Pascal Stenzel (61′ Roberto Massimo), 16 Atakan Karazor (61′ Laurin Ulrich), 17 Genki Haraguchi (61′ Jovan Milosevic), 18 Jamie Leweling, 20 Luca Pfeiffer (61′ Juan Perea), 25 Lilian Egloff, 35 Clinton Mola, 44 Mohamed Sankoh.
Goals
0-1 (22′) Silas, 0-2 (28′) Führich, 0-3 (49′) Egloff, 0-4 (51′) Pfeiffer.