The loss officially constituted Wolfsburg worst-ever defeat in the Bundesliga. The fact that VfL defenders Kilian Fischer and Moritz Jenz scored own-goals meant that the Lower Saxon Motor towns have now scored four own goals in the current campaign; also a worst-ever season total.
Koulierakis’ central defensive partner Jenson Seelt scored an own-goal in the matchday 15 defeat against SC Freiburg. Now that Jenz and Fischer have put the ball into the back of their own net on matchday 16, Wolfsburg have become experts in defeating themselves.
Fischer got in on the act too.
“You can’t collapse like we just did,” Fischer told German broadcaster DAZN. “This is really embarrassing. Unfortunately, we don’t have much time to process it. We have to dust ourselves off and go full throttle against St. Pauli [on Wednesday].“
“This was a total failure,” Schwegler said in his DAZN interview. “One can’t survive in the Bundesliga like this, not without defending.“
“The [own-goals] are just a matter of bad luck,” Bauer added at the post-match press conference. “I don’t want to criticize the boys. I’m more concerned with apologizing to our fans who went through a lot of effort to support us in this weather.“
