Borussia Mönchengladbach have been waiting for an away win at VfL Wolfsburg since 2003. Adi Hütter has since become the ninth Foals coach to want to win at the Lower Saxons – and he must also end his own negative streak to do so.
Hans Meyer and Lucien Favre, Horst Köppel and Andre Schubert or Dieter Hecking and Marco Rose – they all have this one thing in common: None of them managed to lead Borussia to an away win at VfL Wolfsburg in the past almost 18 years. The last VfL coach to take three points from the Lower Saxons was actually Holger Fach. He won 3-1 with the Fohlenelf in November 2003 after goals from Joris van Hout, Arie van Lent and Joonas Kolkka. Since then, Köppel, Jos Luhukay, Meyer, Michael Frontzeck, Favre, Schubert, Hecking and Rose have all tried in vain to match Fach’s feat.
16 Gladbach attempts without away success in Wolfsburg
For Dick Advocaat (on the bench between November 2004 and April 2005) and Jupp Heynckes (May 2006 to January 2007), no trips to the Wolves were on the agenda during their tenure. In total, Gladbach’s past 16 attempts in Wolfsburg have all ended without an away win – against no other club has Borussia waited longer for a three-goal win away from home.
Hütter: “This is a physically strong team “
Adi Hütter will be the next Borussia coach to tackle the task of ending the black streak on Saturday. The Austrian is now number nine since Fach. And Hütter knows that a difficult mission awaits him and his team against the Wolves (3rd place, 13 points), who have started strongly. “They are a physically strong team. Even though they have now lost for the first time at TSG Hoffenheim, they are not high up in the table for nothing,” says Hütter.
Nevertheless, the 51-year-old has already announced that he wants to take the momentum with him after his own 1-0 win over Borussia Dortmund on Saturday. Hütter: “The win did us good and was enormously important for us in the current phase. Above all, I liked the way the boys performed. “
Hatter’s own negative streak
The necessary tailwind to get the three points in Wolfsburg as well? If the three points come on Saturday afternoon, Hütter would end two negative streaks at the same time: Borussia’s in Wolfsburg and his own. Because: Hütter lost the six most recent away games (three with Gladbach, three with Eintracht Frankfurt at the end of last season) – a first for the coach in the Bundesliga.
