Wolfsburg’s lead doesn’t count: Gladbach ends the winless series against Wolfsburg

Wolfsburg’s lead doesn’t count
Gladbach ends the winless series against Wolfsburg

Borussia Mönchengladbach has been waiting for a win for five games, four times they haven’t even scored a goal. But this series ends: Coach Daniel Farke’s team is back on the winning track against VfL Wolfsburg. But the European qualification places are far away.

After five games without a win, Borussia Mönchengladbach has stopped the negative run in the Bundesliga. Coach Daniel Farke’s team defeated VfL Wolfsburg 2-0 (1-0), but is still in tenth place with 35 points – far away from the international starting places, which Wolfsburg (39 points) have now been undefeated for the previous five games. are a little further away. In front of 51,127 spectators in Borussia Park, Nathan Ngoumou (34th minute) and Marcus Thuram (63rd) scored the goals for the hosts. For the first time since the 3-2 win against FC Bayern Munich, the team was able to celebrate a threesome.

“It feels very good, that was very important for us in front of our own fans,” said Gladbach’s Florian Neuhaus on DAZN: “It only works together with the fans. In the end we deserved to win 2-0.” The success should now give “tailwind” with a view to the upcoming games, emphasized Neuhaus and added: “We are very happy.”

The guests, who couldn’t win against Gladbach in the league for three years, started the game well and created their first chances early on. Coach Niko Kovac had to rebuild his entire right side because of the suspensions of Ridle Baku and Patrick Wimmer and brought in Kilian Fischer on the right back and Felix Nmecha on the offensive right side.

“We failed to decide the game in the first half. You have to address that clearly,” said Wolfsburg’s Maximilian Arnold: “We had enough chances, but that was very disappointing in the end.”

Wolfsburg meets from offside

Borussia was lucky after goalkeeper Jonas Omlin was able to parry a header from Omar Marmousch in the fifth minute and the Wolfsburg goal by Mattias Svanberg (10th) was disallowed for offside. Christoph Kramer had previously initiated the Lower Saxony counterattack with a bad pass.

In addition to the suspended Manu Koné, for whom Florian Neuhaus moved into defensive midfield, Gladbach initially also had to do without Jonas Hofmann. Gladbach’s strongest offensive player had been absent all week for personal reasons and only came on in the closing stages. His substitute Nathan Ngoumou initially found it difficult to find his way on the right-hand side because the game of the Lower Rhine team was characterized by many mistakes and little creativity.

But after a weak pass from VfL keeper Koen Casteels, Marcus Thuram was there. He served Ngoumou – and he hit the far corner with his left to make it surprisingly 1-0. Up to this point, the guests were clearly the better team. It was the first Bundesliga goal for the 23-year-old Frenchman.

Even with the opening goal in the back, Gladbach’s game didn’t get much better, but gained security. Wolfsburg still had good chances. The strong Svanberg failed to Omlin (47th), who again showed a good performance in the Borussia goal. The decision in favor of Gladbach came after just over an hour: Plea’s header after a cross from Ngoumou was used by Thuram, who scored the 2-0 and his 13th goal of the season from close range.

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