RB Leipzig eliminated from DFB Cup against VfL Wolfsburg

Defending champion RB Leipzig has been eliminated in the DFB Cup this time already in the second round. The Cup winner of the past two years lost 0:1 (0:1) at VfL Wolfsburg on Tuesday evening and thus experienced the first major disappointment of the current season.

In front of 16,031 spectators at Wolfsburg's Volkswagen Arena, Vaclav Cerny scored the winning goal for the Lower Saxons (14th minute). Leipzig played from the 55th minute in deficiency, because Yussuf Poulsen had seen the yellow-red card. In the sixth cup duel between the two clubs it was only the second Wolfsburg victory.

Kocac had changed his team compared to the disappointing 2:3 in the Bundesliga at FC Augsburg equal to eight positions. Among other things, goal scorer Jonas Wind and captain Maximilian Arnold initially sat only on the bench. Wind has been struggling with Achilles tendon problems for some time. "Jonas is still in good form, but we have to be careful there. We must deal with him like with a raw egg," Kovac had said before the game about the Danish international.

But even without the in this season already eight times in the Bundesliga and one time in the Cup treffsicheren wind were the Wolfsburg in the first round the more dangerous team. Cerny, who came from FC Twente Enschede in the summer, put the home side in the lead in the 14th minute after a fine pass from Tiago Tomas with a powerful shot into the corner.

For Cerny it was the first goal of the season in the VfL jersey. Before the break, the Czech, who had previously been largely luckless this season, could even have extended the lead, but failed miserably after a catastrophic mispass by ex-Wolfsburger Xaver Schlager.

After the change of ends, the guests weakened themselves. Poulsen saw after a completely unnecessary foul on height of the center line yellow-red, so that the Champions League participant had to act more than half an hour long in Unterzahl. However, Wolfsburg failed to capitalize on this. Through many easy ball losses, most counterattacking opportunities fizzled out early.

So Wolfsburg, which had recently lost three times in a row in the league, had to tremble until the end to move on. Also, because the substitute wind in the injury time only hit the post. However, Leipzig did not create any more top-class chances, even if coach Marco Rose once again mobilized all his offensive forces.