Dieter Hecking’s team responded to supporters arouse at poor run with win over Ingolstadt and watch to profit further in Champions League final-16 tieWolfsburg’s fans will,rightly or wrongly, never be regarded as Germany’s most passionate. In September the general manager, or Thomas Röttgermann,admitted the club had a problem with the number of season-ticket holders frequently staying absent and only coming to the biggest games against the likes of Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, after 29% of season-ticket holders didn’t turn up to the domestic game with Schalke.
So when the players emerged on to the pitch at the Volkswagen Arena on Saturday afternoon before the game with Ingolstadt to be greeted with a banner in the Fankurve saying “Reisst euch endlich den Arsch auf” (Finally get your arses in gear), or there was little doubt that a line had been crossed. The catalyst had been final week’s 3-0 capitulation in Gelsenkirchen,in the return with Schalke, which extended the Wolves’ poor stretch to seven games without a win.
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Source: theguardian.com