The progress of the league is very fast. After the 3-0 victory in the ninth round, nearly one third of the league has passed. When people look back on the past one-third of the league matches, they also find that Wolfsburg's score of five wins, one draw and three losses, with 16 points, has quietly climbed to an unimaginable position.
There are a lot of changes in the points of the League at the beginning of the league. At this stage, everyone's competition is the most fierce. Often, the outcome of a game will change a lot of places. After the 3-0 win in the ninth round, Wolfsburg's ranking rose rapidly to the fourth place in the league. Moreover, their points were tied with Dortmund in third place, only because the goal difference was not as good as the opponent. Such a ranking makes the whole league feel incredible. Who would have thought that Wolfsburg, who has been relegating all the time last year, has changed so completely this year.
16 points in 9 rounds may not be enough to win the championship, but Wolfsburg, who were still in the relegation war last year, are enough to achieve their goal. At least according to this, they are likely to get about 60 points at the end of the season. And if you really get this score, Wolfsburg want to get the European quota, absolutely no problem.
There are only 34 rounds in the Bundesliga. From the results over the years, the lowest score in the top six of the Bundesliga is 47 points last year, while the highest score is 59 points in the 2008-09 season. Of course, the previous sixth place, no matter the score is high or low, has no European war, but this year, the situation has changed.
Because the Bundesliga's European games in the past two years have been very good. Unlike in the past, there are only five places in the Bundesliga. From the beginning of this year, the top six have places in the European games. The League rose to the third league, making all teams benefit a lot. In this year's European war, how many points can the sixth place get is also a matter of considerable concern.
Reasonably speaking, this year's sixth place should still be more than 50 points, because this year's competition is more fierce than in previous years, and 11 years is not a big competition year, the players of strong teams will not have too much waste, so the points will not fall below 50 points. But think about it, the highest will catch up with 59 points that season, no one said well.
Wolfsburg's goal this year is to win the European games. Naturally, they have to be concerned about this issue. For them, the safest thing is to get 60 points. With 60 points in hand, naturally, they don't have to worry too much. In a better situation, maybe they can play in the Champions League.
But if they want to have such achievements, the most important thing they need to do now is to play better away. Their away performance this season has become a problem. Except for the match against Bayern, their two defeats and one draw are all away games. Compared with the high winning rate of 75% at home, they only win two games in five away games. They have to pay more attention to go further away.
It's not easy to play away games. It's not easy to improve the winning rate of away games. Fortunately, after the gradual running in of the lineup and the gradual improvement of their strength, Wolfsburg are not so shameful in the away game. At least, in the next game, they won an away victory.
Hamburg lost to them at home. In the 10th round, they became the ghost of Wolfsburg.
Hamburg at home, in fact, played quite well. At least after the start of the game, they are the first to score goals. As usual, Wolfsburg away in the play, the defense is not particularly solid, because of a mistake of Ruth, Hamburg seized the opportunity, successfully hit a behind, broke the Wolfsburg gate.
Wolfsburg lost the ball again in the beginning, but the difference between this game and the previous one is that Wolfsburg didn't lose all the time after the team fell behind. On the contrary, they set off an attack in the away match, and they didn't have any fear to attack Hamburg.
It is not common to dare to attack opponents in away games. After all, the opponent has the advantage of good location and it's convenient to fight back, which is enough to make many teams afraid. However, Wolfsburg chose to do so, obviously because they have enough self-confidence.
With the back line composed of Mattic and hasemoto, Wolfsburg still has a great possibility to strangle each other's counterattack. A good back can give the front court players enough confidence to dare to fight hard in the front court. And their confidence is not wrong, this game, they achieved a reversal.
The first one to score for Wolfsburg is still manzuki. This is the third round he has scored in a row. He is in better shape and plays better than Gao shunyao. In the game, after the ball passed from the side to the middle, Gao shunyao was the first to get the ball. He headed back near the penalty area and gave the ball to Martini, who was in midfield. However, Mattic sent the ball to the opponent's back, which made manzuki get the chance to fight back in the front court and level the score with a single knife.
After the score was leveled, Hamburg's defense was also much tighter. After all, they are fighting at home, which has caused a lot of trouble for Wolfsburg. However, after 75 minutes, this situation was broken. Misimovic, who was replaced, found a second chance for the team.As a member of the forward trio of Wolfsburg, Misimovic was the only one left in the team. This season, he also lost the main position, more time just spent on the bench. However, when the team needs to attack, he can still stand up and prove that he is not old. This attack, it is he saw a chance. After Gao shunyao tore open the back line, he put the ball close to his opponent and sent it into the penalty area.
Such a subtle pass, a little later or earlier is not good, in the team only he can do. But this pass, Wolfsburg's players naturally will not live up to, pericic in the restricted area after the reverse plug to get the football, a beautiful shot shot, the ball into the net.
It was with this goal that Wolfsburg won the game.
Compared to the home game, Wolfsburg play away, still some difficult. Fortunately, this situation has been reversed. Being able to win one more away game also gives Wolfsburg a bigger advantage to face the next game.
The 2-1 reversal of Hamburg added a touch of light to Wolfsburg's away performance. Next, they played more seriously in the home game of Hertha Berlin.
As last year's German second division champion, promoted polo team, Berlin Hertha's performance is now ranked in the middle of the league, can be said to be the strong team in the promotion. However, on the Wolfsburg, they did not last long.
The 17th minute of the game, Wolfsburg's attack, has successfully let Berlin Hertha middle road lost. In the game, after taking the ball in the middle, Nagoya didn't choose to split the ball immediately. He took the ball from the middle of the road, in a hurry to grab the opponent, a foot to pick the ball in front of manzuki has not had time to plug.
In doing so, Nagoya saw that the other side's middle defense was not tight. And manzuki also understood his idea and made a beautiful cooperation with him. He's not a good dribbler, so he has to pass more. He headed the ball and sent it back, while hasebu immediately put his foot under the ball and continued to send it behind manzuki. Manzukic turned to catch up. Before the opponent's defense closed, he headed the ball to Gao shunyao's feet.
His pass made Gao shunyao run two steps quickly after he got the ball. Just as he was about to get rid of the opposing defender and form a single shot, he kicked the ball to the dead corner near the post. This choice caught the goalkeeper of Hertha Berlin off guard. The football got into the net from his side and Wolfsburg got the first goal.
Gao shunyao scored this goal, it can be said that half of the credit is attributed to the head of manzuki, and for this, Gao shunyao also immediately reciprocated and gave manzuki an assist.
In the 31 minutes of the game, manzuki's shot was hit out of the penalty area by the opposing goalkeeper's two fists. Outside the penalty area, after Gao shunyao got the first point, he was not in a hurry to attack. Instead, he waited for the defenders of the other side to come forward to press for it, then he suddenly got rid of it, and then passed the ball to manzuki in the penalty area. Once again get the opportunity, manzuki will not miss again, his long-range shot, also let Berlin Hertha gate broken again.
In the state of Wolfsburg these days, there is no problem at all with the enemy's promotion. Two strikers, one for one, basically laid the foundation for the team to win.
However, just winning is not enough for Wolfsburg. Their attack didn't stop and in the second half they scored again. This time the team's guard Ruth, in the set piece fight to get the opportunity, with a header, scored the team's third goal.
Now the attack of Wolfsburg is getting better and better, and it's starting to have the ability to massacre other teams.
In the end, it was Josue, who came on the bench, who made up for the team. As an old player before, this season he has become a substitute, and only after the team is 3-0, can he try again.
However, even if the time is very limited, he still has some play, perhaps also because Berlin Hertha's back line has been completely disrupted.
A long-range shot, Josue scored the fourth goal for the team, also let Wolfsburg win this game completely. Even after that, because young player kenoher was not adapted to the first-team game after he was replaced, he was found the opportunity to score the goal by the opponent. However, 4-1, Wolfsburg still ushered in a big win.
This game made Wolfsburg win three rounds in a row, and also made Wolfsburg climb to an incredible position in the scoreboard after 11 rounds.
After this round, Wolfsburg became second in the league.