Wolfsburg loses to Werder Bremen 2-1

Wolfsburg's horrible away record continued with a 2-1 loss to Werder Bremen at Weserstadion. With the loss, Wolfsburg still has yet on the road this year and stands at ninth in the Bundesliga table going into the break. The customary offensive onslaught of Die Wölfe Zvjezdan Misimović, Edin Džeko and Ashkan Dejagah met its match with a youth laden Werder side. Werder manager Thomas Schaaf handed a number of players rare starting assignments given the absences of notables such as Diego and Claudio Pizarro and will definitely have some interesting decisions based upon their brilliant play. The normal defensively weak Werder played inspired Football with particular exception owed to a youth movement of Sebastian Prödl,Aaron Hunt,Mesut Özil and Bosnia and Herzegovina international Said Husejinović. With Aaron Hunt being the elder statesman of the four at twenty-two years of age, they played with a level of commitment and work-rate that has not been seen by Werder typically and quite honestly a pleasure to watch.

Wolfsburg got off to a fast start as Christian Gentner volleyed a corner in only three minutes in however in an interesting point, following that goal all Wolfsburg attacking efforts fell short and Tim Wiese was typically undisturbed. Werder's stunning championship defending continued, turning Wolfsburg flowing attacks to nothing more than a trickle and three minutes before the half hour mark the home side leveled the match as Per Mertesacker re-directed Mesut Özil's free-kick in. Mesut was the subject of the go-ahead goal as his cross into the box three minutes past bounced off Wolfsburg's Josué and into the net. Wolfsburg created a number of opportunities in the remaining minutes but Werder cut down sight lines and each attempt drifted without threat.

Prior to heading on the long winter break, Wolfsburg returns to play against AC Milan in the UEFA Cup this Wednesday.