📏 Form Guide

Borussia Mönchengladbach

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Gladbach will be hoping to return to winning ways here after the 2-0 Bundesliga loss in their previous game against Bayern Munich.

In that game, Borussia Mönchengladbach managed 37% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 6 on target. On the other side, Bayern Munich got 24 shots on goal with 9 of them on target. Harry Kane (31') and Michael Olise (90') scored for Bayern Munich.

Fixtures featuring Borussia Mönchengladbach have tended to be engaging affairs lately with plenty of scoring the rule rather than the exception. Over their past six games, the sum of 27 goals have flown in for both sides combined (at an average of 4.5 goals per game) with 11 of those coming from Borussia Mönchengladbach. Let’s find out if that trend will end up being continued on here.

Going into this encounter, Borussia Mönchengladbach are without a win at home for the past 2 league games.

VfL Wolfsburg

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In their last game, VfL Wolfsburg drew 2-2 in the Bundesliga match with Hoffenheim.

In that game, VfL Wolfsburg had 54% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 5 on target. The only player to score for VfL Wolfsburg was Jonas Wind (81'). 1899 Hoffenheim had 17 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. Leo Østigård (1' Own goal), Pavel Kadeřábek (34') and Marius Bülter (84') scored for Hoffenheim.

The stats tell the story, and VfL Wolfsburg have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, letting opponents get 13 goals in total. In defence, VfL Wolfsburg can certainly do much better.

Their past results show that VfL Wolfsburg:

• have not registered a win against Borussia Mönchengladbach in games played away from home for the previous 5 league games. They really have not been travelling well at all.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 4 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their prior head-to-head meetings dating back to 15/10/2022 tells us that Gladbach have won 4 of these games and VfL Wolfsburg 1, with the tally of drawn matches being 1.

A combined total of 21 goals were produced between them in this period, with 13 for Gladbach and 8 belonging to Wolfsburg. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.5.

The last league fixture between these clubs was Bundesliga match day 17 on 14/01/2025 when it finished VfL Wolfsburg 5-1 Borussia Mönchengladbach.

That day, VfL Wolfsburg managed 35% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Goals were scored by Jonas Wind (3'), Joakim Mæhle (60'), Maximilian Arnold (75') and Lukas Nmecha (83', 87').

Borussia Mönchengladbach got 9 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Shio Fukuda (89') scored.

The match was refereed by Florian Badstübner.

📋 Team News: Gladbach

Tim Kleindienst (Knock), Niklas Swider (Fitness), Nathan Ngoumou (Achilles tendon rupture), Yvandro Borges Sanches (Muscle injury), Marvin Friedrich (muscular problems) and Moritz Nicolas (Adductor injury) are unavailable for Gladbach manager Gerardo Seoane.

In our view, Gladbach will probably opt for a 4-5-1 system for the game, beginning the first half with Jonas Omlin, Stefan Lainer, Ko Itakura, Nico Elvedi, Lukas Ullrich, Franck Honorat, Rocco Reitz, Julian Weigl, Philipp Sander, Robin Hack and Alassane Plea.

🗞️ Team News: VfL Wolfsburg

VfL Wolfsburg manager Ralph Hasenhüttl has to currently contend with reduced team options. Bennit Bröger (Knee surgery), Kilian Fischer (Knee injury), Rogério (Fitness), Mattias Svanberg (Muscle injury) and Sebastiaan Bornauw (Fitness) are those who can’t be considered.

There’s a good chance that Wolfsburg could decide to play in a 4-3-3 lineup, starting the game with Kamil Grabara, Joakim Maehle, Denis Vavro, K. Koulierakis, Jakub Kaminski, Maximilian Arnold, Lovro Majer, Yannick Gerhardt, Patrick Wimmer, Lukas Nmecha and Mohamed Amoura.

🧠 Prediction

We envisage that VfL Wolfsburg have the capability to score against this Borussia Mönchengladbach side, but it probably shouldn’t be enough to prevent defeat.

We’re going for both teams to score in a 2-1 winning margin for Borussia Mönchengladbach at full-time. We’ll have to see what happens.

Peter Guest, 13:06 17/05/2025