Overview
- Werder Bremen overturned Wolfsburg’s lead to win 2-1, with Jens Stage scoring in the 83rd minute and Samuel Mbangula in the 90+4th after Mattias Svanberg struck for the visitors.
- Coach Paul Simonis said he does not know his future at the club and called the defeat perhaps the most difficult of his career.
- Sporting director Sebastian Schindzielorz and sporting CEO Peter Christiansen face internal criticism over squad building, with Schindzielorz declining to back the coach and Christiansen saying on Sky he would go if he is the problem.
- No immediate dismissals were announced, and BILD reported the club decided to pause personnel decisions for at least a day as crisis meetings are arranged.
- Wolfsburg have won only three of twelve competitive matches this season, including a DFB-Pokal exit to Holstein Kiel, falling well short of their European ambitions.