In this 25th week match, on Sat Mar 13th, Wolfsburg and Schalke 04 will play a match in Wolfsburg in a meeting of these two extremely mismatched Bundesliga teams. In their last match, 3rd placed Wolfsburg, recorded a 1-2 loss against Hoffenheim. Christoph Baumgartner struck first for Hoffenheim in the 8th minute on a feed from Pavel Kadeřábek, then Wout Weghorst tied it up for Wolfsburg in the 23rd minute. Wolfsburg should be reasonably happy with their recent performance, earning 21 points in their last 10 matches, while schalke 04 is fresh off their 0-0 scoreless draw against Mainz 05. Neither Schalke 04 nor Mainz 05 could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 1 and 21 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a scoreless draw,. Schalke 04 looks to improve on their recent performance, having earned only 6 points in their last 10 matches.
On the 3rd of February, Wolfsburg hosted Schalke 04 in their last match together. Wolfsburg won by a score of 1 to 0. Wout Weghorst scored the first goal for Wolfsburg in the 40th minute, and that single goal was all that was necessary as neither team could manage any more scoring At the end of 90 a dissapointed Schalke 04 couldn’t manage to score, and Wolfsburg took the shutout win. Renato Steffen has been the most effective weapon for Wolfsburg lately. The Swiss midfielder has netted two goals in his last 5 matches
Oliver Glasner’s squad will be without Marin Pongračić, John Brooks, Josip Brekalo, Renato Steffen, Jérôme Roussillon, Xaver Schlager, Paulo Otávio, Maxence Lacroix, Lino Kasten and William, while Salif Sané, Omar Mascarell, Amine Harit, Ozan Kabak, Mark Uth, Steven Skrzybski, Shkodran Mustafi, Ralf Fährmann, Nassim Boujellab, Frederik Rønnow, Matija Nastasić, Nabil Bentaleb and Kilian Ludewig are unavailable to play for Schalke 04.