PREVIEW & PREDICTION – Schalke vs Wolfsburg 7/02/2018
In the quarter-finals of the German Cup, on Wednesday, starting at 19:45, the Schalke-Wolfsburg game will be played. Both bands come from less successful results in the last round of the Bundesliga.
Although they managed 1-0 in the 24th minute after Konoplyanka’s success, the “miners” succumbed to confrontation with Bremen, 1-2 score. The elimination of Nastasic changed the fate of the game, they received two goals in minutes 79 and 90 + 3 respectively. It was his second home record this season after Bayern. He remained with 34 points, Schalke dropped to fifth, but only one point separates him from a podium. In an attempt to resist the fans, he now hopes to repeat the evolutions of the previous stages of the Cup when he eliminated BFC Dynamo, Wehen and Koln without much emotion. Two of these victories have been won.
On the other hand, the guests missed the chance to break out of the red area after they drew their own home in Stuttgart’s company, score 1-1. D.Origi opened the score in the 24th minute, but M.Gomez closed the table in the second half of the game. Borrowed from Liverpool, Belgian Divock Origi scored for the 5th time this season. With this tie, Wolfsburg remains on the 13th position in the ranking, just four lengths away from the relegable places. As the situation in the rankings is not very good and in the weekend follows the move from Bremen (15th place), “wolves” could confront the cup in the second round. And so, the victories achieved so far with Norderstedt, Hannover and Nurnberg have come to the limit or after overtime.
The last direct encounter ended undecided, score 1-1. It was the only result of equality in the last five straight games, during which Schalke was forced three times.
PREDICTION: Schalke to win @ 1.73



