VfL Wolfsburg have recently suffered three league defeats in a row, and their next opponent is also weak – albeit at a significantly higher level. The Austrian long-time champions RB Salzburg, Champions League host for VfL on Wednesday, handed in points for the first time this season on the eleventh matchday at the weekend. After ten wins in a row, Matthias Jaissle’s team only scored 1-1 in Altach and thus missed a new start record.

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In the Salzburg offensive, in addition to US super talent Brenden Aaronson, Karim Adeyemi was sorely missed due to a lack of adductor problems. VfL also had the lightning-fast German national player on the list in the summer. Against Wolfsburg, he should now be fit again – but even without him, Salzburg would stand for high-speed football. “They are running extremely fast,” says VfL managing director Jörg Schmadtke. “You should defend compactly – if possible as a group.”

It looks similar to Maximilian Arnold. “The Champions League is a different competition,” said Wolfsburg’s Bundesliga record player after the disappointing 2-2 at Union Berlin on Saturday, “we have to defend again as we did in the first games, in Lille and against Seville. ” To then “turn it back into the Bundesliga, because we have to be aware that this is the only way to do it.”

The preparation of the Wolfsburg (two CL draws so far) for the game in the city of Mozart begins on Monday with a secret unit. On Tuesday the team will fly to Salzburg, in the evening in the Salzburg Arena – as usual before CL games – the unit will be open to the public for a quarter of an hour. After the game, it goes straight back to Braunschweig, on Thursday (12.30 p.m.) training takes place in Wolfsburg. On Friday (10.30 a.m.) you will sweat again, before the unbeaten fourth-placed Freiburg visits on Saturday.

The medium and long term future of Adeyemi is meanwhile a big topic in Salzburg. Because, according to information from Sky, FC Bayern Munich is pushing its efforts to commit the 19-year-old. As the TV broadcaster reported, there was a round of negotiations on Saturday in Munich on Säbener Strasse with advisers Thomas Solomon and Adeyemi’s father Abbey Adeyemi to bind the top talent from Salzburg. In addition to the German record champions RB Leipzig, Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool FC should also be interested in the national player. There should also have been a concrete exchange there, Sky announced. Further negotiations are to follow. There is no decision yet.