Hoffenheim vs Wolfsburg prediction: GERMANY: Bundesliga betting tips on match 2023-09-01 13:30.
Hoffenheim lost their opening Bundesliga game before winning in round two with a tremendous 3-2 win from 2-0 down, making it an identical starting sequence to 2022/23! The feeling across the Hoffenheim camp was one of elation as they delivered a baptism of fire to Heidenheim in their first-ever Bundesliga home game with penalty-saving keeper Oliver Baumann praising his teammates for “raising the level” after half-time.
Pellegrino Matarazzo will hope his men can continue in a similar vein of form to last term as they won their gameweek three game 3-0, although that will be easier said than done against Wolfsburg, one of four sides to complete a league double over them last time around. Aside from that potential psychological disadvantage, Hoffenheim have won four of their last six home league games despite keeping just one clean sheet in the process (L2).
Often playing their part in exciting affairs here, Wolfsburg make the journey to Sinsheim looking to extend their five-game run of scoring away H2Hs (W3, L2). That seems highly likely after the Wolves’ near-perfect competitive start to the season (W3), with the only blemish on their record a single conceded goal in their hard-fought comeback victory in Cologne last weekend.
Visiting manager Niko Kovač has praised his side’s strong start by comparing it to last season, reminding everyone: “We’ve won twice and last year we only won on matchday seven”. That in itself shows the progress made under the Croatian, yet his next aim is to make it three wins from as many rounds to start the campaign, a victory which would move him to just one victory of equaling “Mega” Mark van Bommel’s club record four-game winning start to a campaign as Wolfsburg manager!
Players to watch: Hoffenheim’s Andrej Kramarić stepped up to the challenge to slot home a 90th-minute penalty last weekend to open his Bundesliga account for the season, so he’ll now hope to build on four goals from his last six meetings with Wolfsburg. Trying to outdo him will be Wolfsburg’s Jonas Wind, who became just the eighth Bundesliga player to score 2+ goals in each of the opening two rounds and the first man since Kramarić himself in 2020/21.
Hot stat: Wolfsburg haven’t won three or more consecutive competitive away games in over two years (January-February 2021).