Despite the next home defeat in the Bundesliga, Paul Simonis remains coach of VfL Wolfsburg for the time being. “We will go into the next few days together,” said sports director Sebastian Schindzielorz immediately after the 2-3 defeat against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. This applies at least to the upcoming game next Friday (8.30 p.m./Sky) at SV Werder Bremen. “We have a very important game ahead of us. We want to combine all our strengths,” he emphasized.
Schindzielorz did not want to commit to what the future holds for the Dutchman, who was only signed last summer. Guarantees in the industry are very difficult, he said. “In this respect, I can answer what the next step is ahead of us, and that is Bremen. And we are tackling that together,” explained the sports director.
In front of just 19,078 spectators in the Volkswagen Arena, Wouter Burger (31st/62nd minute) and Grischa Prömel (50th) scored twice for the confident Hoffenheim team. In the end, the two goals from Wolfsburg’s Mohammed Amoura (14th/56th) were not enough for Lower Saxony. The twelfth-placed team has been without a win in their own stadium for almost ten months, has only picked up two points in the Volkswagen Arena this season and most recently lost 1-0 in the DFB Cup against second division club Holstein Kiel.