VfL Wolfsburg vs Augsburg Bundesliga Preview: Team News and Predicted Lineups

Match Overview

VfL Wolfsburg

Wolfsburg lost with their ten men two-nil to Bayer Leverkusen last weekend in the Bundesliga.

Goals from Nathan Tella and Florian Wirtz sunk Niko Kovač's side. Kovac, previously coach of Bayern Munich, seems to be hanging on to his job following some poor results.

Following this theme, this season is Wolfsburg's worst ever tally at this stage of a Bundesliga campaign with twenty-five points.

Despite this, they are still seven points off the relegation bottom three and look to be safe this campaign.

Lastly, ahead of the tie and about the links to his sacking, Wolfsburg coach Niko Kovač said: "It's all far too pessimistic for me.T hat's why I don't bother with it."

Augsburg

Augsburg won three games in a row in the Bundesliga following the one-nil win against Heidenheim.

Jeffrey Gouweleeuw scored the only goal in the game as they kept a clean sheet against Heidenheim in the league. This was their second clean sheet in a row.

Augsburg's Ermedin Demirović has scored fourteen goals this season in the Bundesliga and is their top scorer by some distance this campaign.

Lastly, Augsburg managed to win 3-2 last time against Wolfsburg and it was Jess Thorup's second win as coach of Augsburg.

Team News

VfL Wolfsburg

Yannick Gerhardt is out with a yellow card suspension and Moritz Jenz is also unavailable with a red card suspension. Lukas Nmecha is a doubt due to a muscular issue.

Augsburg

Niklas Dorsch has a foot injury so will miss the game and Raphael Framberger is unavailable with a knee problem. Reece Oxford is also missing with illness. Lastly, Patric Pfeiffer is a doubt for the Wolfsburg game.

Predicted Lineups

VfL Wolfsburg‍

Casteels; Baku, Lacroix, Zesiger, Mæhle; Vranckx, Arnold (c); Majer, Wind, Paredes; Behrens‍

Augsburg

Dahmen; Mbabu, Gouweleeuw, Uduokhai, Iago; Jensen, Jakić, Maier; Vargas; Tietz, Demirović (c)