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Posted by:
Stringer
on Mar 15, 2012 at 02:04:03 PM
On Saturday March 17th Nurnberg will host Wolfsburg. A month or two ago, Wolfsburg coach Felix Magath declared the goal for the season would be to qualify for Europa League football by finishing at least 7th in the league. Despite a thrilling 3-2 victory over Leverkusen in the last matchday, I can't see it happening. Long gone are the days of the magical trio of Misimovic, Grafite and Edin Dzeko, also gone from the 2009 championship winning side are Christian Gentner, now of Stuttgart and Sascha Reither, now of Koln. Now the team is slap bang in the middle of a transition period and a monumental re-building process.
I think Nurnberg can take advantage of Wolfsburg's disastrous away form and win. The game before Leverkusen, away at Kaiserslautern, the Bundesliga's rock bottom team the...
Posted by:
Stringer
on Jan 29, 2011 at 04:54:46 AM
Wolfsburg are generally good at home but have many injury problems to important 1st team players in this match. Steve McClaren speaking on the official Wolfsburg website said:
"Simon Kjaer and Grafite both have ankle problems, Mario Mandzukic has a toe injury, Sascha Riether has a knee issue and Tolga Cigerci is out with his foot. We still have a bit of time, so hopefully two or three of them will be fit by Saturday. Unfortunately, with the exception of Cigerci who is definitely out, the others are very doubtful. It’s really bitter that we now have so many injuries just as we were beginning to get things going, but we have to make the best of it."
Also add to that Hasabe who is at the Asian cup with Japan and you have a severely depleted Wolfsburg team. It wont be easy for Dortmund...