VfL Wolfsburg have forgotten how to score. Because the Wolves also lost to promoted Bochum at the start of the year, striker Wout Weghorst suddenly couldn’t think of anything else to say.
“The positive feeling for the new year was there,” Weghorst began his post-match interview on DAZN extremely meekly. On Sunday evening, however, after the 0:1 in Bochum, the emphasis in this sentence was clearly on the was.
VfL Wolfsburg, who have now lost six Bundesliga games in a row (eight consecutive defeats across competitions), are in free fall. And Weghorst, with Bochum’s young centre-backs Leitsch and Bella Kotchap pretty much out of the picture, it’s unclear how it can be stopped.
Where to start now, the Dutch forward was asked. After seconds of perplexity, the striker (six goals in the season), who had also faltered on the pitch, stammered: “Sorry, I don’t know.”
Weghorst was more specific about what didn’t work: “We wanted to play differently in the new year, we wanted to create goal-scoring opportunities from a courageous combination game. That worked in the preparation game, but today? Not for a second. “
A harsh verdict Weghorst concluded. “We mustn’t get too dramatic, because we still have 16 games,” said the attacker of the slipped 14th in the table. “But we have to look at where we are – and really, really change something quickly. “
