16th place in the table, still no win in the Bundesliga under Bruno Labbadia: VfB Stuttgart is waiting for a liberation. Newcomer Bremen, on the other hand, plays cleverly and successfully.
VfB Stuttgart is not gaining momentum under the return of Bruno Labbadia. The Swabians made their fourth attempt in the Bundesliga against newly promoted SV Werder Bremen. However, this was not crowned with success either, after VfB had won their first win under Labbadia a few days ago, at least in the round of 16 of the DFB Cup with a 2-1 win at SC Paderborn. 0:2 (0:0) defeated the Stuttgart team, who fell back to 16th place in the table.
“We got in really well and won a lot of good balls,” said the VfB coach. “What we lacked was that we didn’t play the ball better.” Bremen punished the negligent exploitation of chances with remarkable goals from Jens Stage (59th) and Marvin Ducksch (77th). “It’s a shame that we scored both goals ourselves and lost the game with two shots on Sunday,” said Labbadia, who took over at VfB in December as the successor to Pellegrino Matarazzo and interim coach Michael Wimmer.
Once again, Stuttgart failed to keep a clean sheet in a home game. The last time it was zero was April 4, 2021. Opponents at the time: Werder Bremen.
Füllkrug and Ducksch came up trumps
In addition, before the away game on Saturday (3:30 p.m. / Sky) at SC Freiburg, there will probably be another injury-related failure. Serhou Guirassy had to be substituted with adductor problems and will undergo an MRI scan this Monday.
While VfB had problems after replacing their top scorer, national striker Niclas Füllkrug and his neighbor Ducksch came up trumps. “We caught up after 15 minutes and were able to score when Stuttgart were in a good phase,” said Werder coach Ole Werner. After conceding 13 goals in two away games, Bremen played flawlessly this time. “We were always able to set the pace of the game even though we didn’t have the ball and then we were cold as ice,” said Füllkrug, who initiated both goals.
Source: Stern
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