Thorup takes cost of first dwelling recreation

Jess Thorup will oversee his first dwelling recreation as Augsburg boss when Wolfsburg play host to Wolfsburg on Saturday.

Augsburg

After changing Enrico Maaßen with Thorup, Augsburg received off to a constructive begin underneath their new supervisor, claiming a 5-2 away victory over Heidenheim. Thorup would have been involved when their newly-promoted opponents surged right into a two-goal lead inside 18 minutes. Nevertheless, Augsburg fought again to take a slim lead into half time courtesy of objectives from Phillip Tietz, Mads Pedersen and Ermedin Demirović. Felix Uduokhai added a fourth simply after the hour mark, earlier than Elvis Rexhbeçaj netted a late spot-kick to spherical off the scoring.

The spectacular consequence represented Augsburg’s first away league win since beating Schalke 3-2 in October 2022. After ending their 16-game winless away run, Augsburg will return dwelling for Saturday’s fixture.

Though they’ve misplaced simply considered one of their 4 dwelling video games this season, that sole defeat passed off towards Darmstadt of their most up-to-date outing on the WWK Enviornment. Having taken 4 factors from their final two dwelling conferences with Wolfsburg, the hosts shall be assured of avoiding defeat.

Crew Information

Kevin Mbabu, Frederik Winther, Reece Oxford and Raphael Framberger are set to overlook out, whereas Japhet Tanganga is a doubt.

Wolfsburg

Wolfsburg started the season with a constructive run of outcomes, claiming 4 victories of their opening six league matches. Nevertheless, they’ve skilled a drop off in type of their final two video games, having suffered back-to-back defeats. After dropping 3-1 away to Stuttgart, die Wölfe had been narrowly crushed in final Saturday’s dwelling assembly towards high-flying Bayer Leverkusen.

Maxence Lacroix levelled the scoring after Jeremie Frimpong had given Leverkusen an early lead, earlier than Álex Grimaldo netted the winner within the 62nd minute to sentence Wolfsburg to their first dwelling defeat of the season.

Wolfsburg, who sit in ninth place, now head on their travels, the place they’ll try to finish a three-game dropping run. Having shipped seven of their eight away objectives conceded within the second half, Niko Kovac shall be difficult his aspect to maintain their efficiency ranges excessive in the course of Saturday’s contest.

Crew Information

The guests are anticipated to be with out the companies of Koen Casteels, Kilian Fischer, Lukas Nmecha and Rogério.

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