Wolfsburg vs Hoffenheim

The place in the quarter-final stage of the DFB-Pokal will be determined during the midweek with Wolfsburg hosting Hoffenheim at Volkswagen Arena.

The home side is currently eighth in the first division with 18 points from the 12 matches and in the previous round they won with 1-0 to Borussia Dortmund on October 29 while on the other hand the away side secured themselves a win with 2-1 against Nurnberg on October 30, they are 5th last in the first division 14th with 12 points and12 matchweeks.

The Wolves advanced to the round of 16 with a minute’s worth of regulation time remaining to Jonas Wind who got to the jumping ball first in the box and put it to the bottom left corner of the goal.

Manager Ralph Hasenhuttl will have been pleased with their last match at November 30, when team humiliated RB Leipzig 5-1.

It took little more than sixteen minutes for Wolfsburg to score three goals and it should be remembered that before the match Saturday Die Roten Bullen had conceded just nine goals in total.

Hasenhuttl’s team is also in good shape, and has not lost in the previous six consecutive games: in the latest three cups, the team won with a total score of 9-2.

The hosts have been performing pretty great in the DFB-Pokal with six of their last eight games on that competition, though they have made only three home games in a row without defeat – having lost two, drew two and won two of their last six games in Volkswagen Arena at most.

The rival team, Hoffenheim, began their life under the new manager Christian Illzer good by beating RB Leipzig 4-3 on November 23, but failed in the next two matches under him.

Ilzer’s men lost 2-0 to Mainz 05 in the Bundesliga on Sunday, a match in which the latter advanced four clear chances while the former had only one.

With 17 goals and 24 goals given up, Die Kraichgauer is the 11th best offensive team in the division and the third-worst defensive team in the top tier.

Despite winning five of their last seven DFB-Pokal games, Hoffenheim is in dismal form, having lost three, drawn two, and won just one of their last six games.

Given that the visitors have lost five of their past nine away games and drawn four of them, it is impossible to overstate how poor their away performance has been.