Schalke take on the visitors Wolfsburg in the round 20 match of German Bundesliga. The match will be played on Friday, February 10th at Veltins Arena (Gelsenkirchen).
Schalke may well be considered as one of the local hailstones. They have 7 league titles and 5 cups. The Germans won the UEFA Cup and reached the semi-finals of other European competitions. Yes, basically these are quite old successes, although with Tedesco it was possible to return to 2nd place. Another thing is that then everything fell apart, and the “rogues” with anti-records flew out of the elite. True, it turned out to return “on the move”. But it seems that now in Gelsenkirchen they would prefer to remain in the Bundesliga 2 - “higher” they turned out to be uncompetitive, despite the change of coach and a long break. Schalke has frankly miserable statistics. Already in the winter there were 0-3 with Eintracht in Frankfurt am Main and even 1-6 at home with RB Leipzig. And only with Cologne at home it turned out to take at least a scoreless draw. In Mönchengladbach, it was possible to repeat this, again playing 0-0. But this does not particularly bring they closer to solving the issue of survival.
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Wolfsburg played in the Champions League last season. But at the same time, they didn’t show anything particularly there, and in the Bundesliga they collapsed from 4th place to 12th. The reason is that in the summer of 2021, a successful mentor, Oliver Glasner, was not retained. They really could not find a successor for him, and in the last offseason, Niko Kovacs was eventually called. The Croatian in the new place was also not impressive at first - they started with 2 points in 5 starting rounds, and after 11 matches there were only a couple of victories. But by the end of autumn, Wolfsburg managed to issue a winning streak, which continued after a long pause, in January, with a devastating 6-0 with Freiburg and 5-0 with Hertha. However, further “Werder Bremen” returned the team to the ground, which began to think about the fight for European cups – the trip to Bremen ended 1-2. Then this negative score was repeated in Berlin, in the cup match with Union. And then there was a fundamental, for Niko Kovac himself, duel against Bayern. There, his wards scored twice, but what's the point? The champion scored 4 in response and took confident victory, at the same time extending his opponent's poor streak.
The “Wolves” had 4 wins in a row in head-to-head. But, having returned to the Bundesliga 1, the “cobalt” were able to survive on a goalless draw on the road. “Cobalt” may not be hopeless, but the “wolves” will definitely come to take the maximum and interrupt their winning streak. We recommend that you believe that in this confrontation you will be able to beat Wolfsburg.
Prediction for the match: Wolfsburg to win.
