Fortuna finds peace of mind in wolfsburg

The first match of 2013 warmed up at least the players, coaches and fans of the bundesliga promoted team in the cold wolfsburg stadium on friday evening. "We wanted a win, but maybe this point is crucial at the end of the season," said defender leon balogun. Captain adam bodzek was also satisfied with the final result in the relegation battle. "I think the draw is all right. We have to take every point we can get," bodzek said in view of wolfsburg’s dominance with 64 percent ball possession.

Fortuna scored only once in the first half – and it was mathis bolly (37. Minute). The norwegian winter purchase, whose father comes from the ivory coast, spreads something like bollywood flair at the rheinlandern. Bolly scored his first bundesliga goal in the previous week’s 2:3 draw in munich. "Two games, two goals, that’s how it can go on," said sporting director wolf werner.

Wolfsburg goalkeeper ivica olic (51).) held his own and, with his sixth goal of the season, saved the vfl team, which was weak at home, from bankruptcy. "That wasn’t enough," complained manager klaus allofs, who played and coached fortuna. Without the yellow suspended diego, the harmless lower saxony team could only rarely call on guest keeper fabian giefer. "I knew it wouldn’t be as much as in munich," giefer said of his workload.

With the film title "fear eats the soul" as his motto, meier had called on his professionals to put in a brave performance before the game. It was only after the equalizing goal that the dusseldorf team relaxed its defensive stance and even had chances to win through a goal on the bar by robert tesche and by dani schahin in injury time. "We worked hard for the draw", meier noted.

His colleague dieter hecking couldn’t disagree. "It’s hard for me to classify the game," admitted the replaced vfl coach. After the 5:2 gala in freiburg he had to rebuild his team. In addition to diego, the injured ivan perisic was also absent. Diego replacement thomas kahlenberg hardly set any impulses and was even booed by his own fans. "In the second half we lost too much ball and gave fortuna too much space. We have to be satisfied with the point in the end," hecking said.