Encounters between VfL Wolfsburg and TSG Hoffenheim have always been high on goals. There’s been an average of 3.5 in the 36 matches to date, of which the Wolves have won 17 and lost 10, while there’s never been a goalless draw at the Volkswagen Arena.
More facts and figures ahead of the home meeting on Matchday 9:
- VfL have only lost one of their last seven competitive games against Hoffenheim, a 3-1 reverse in Sinsheim in September 2023. The Wolves are unbeaten in the last four (W2, D2), but they’ve yet to go five without defeat against Hoffenheim.
- After six league games without a win, the Green-and-Whites registered their second Bundesliga victory of the campaign last weekend. The last time they managed back-to-back wins within a season was in January of this year, when the opponents were Borussia Mönchengladbach and Hoffenheim.
- The visitors come into this game having recorded their first successive Bundesliga wins under coach Christian Ilzer.
- Adam Daghim is the first VfL player since Borja Mayoral in 2017 to score two goals in his first three Bundesliga starts. In his six Bundesliga appearances overall, the 20-year-old has already netted as many times as he did in 33 outings in the Austrian Bundesliga for RB Salzburg.
- Staying on the subject of Daghim, he is one of the three fastest players in the German top flight this season; on Sunday he’ll likely go head-to-head with another of that trio in Hoffenheim’s Bazoumana Toure. The Wolfsburg man generally plays on the right, the Hoffenheim winger on the left, so they are likely to be battling it out directly at the Volkswagen Arena. Only Union Berlin’s Oliver Burke has been faster than the pair this season.
- Hoffenheim frontman Andrej Kramaric has recorded a goal and an assist in each of the last two league games, doing so for the first time in his Bundesliga career spanning 294 appearances. The Croatian has nine assists in total in the Bundesliga in this calendar year, a figure only bettered by Bayern Munich’s Michael Olise (13).
