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VfB Stuttgart Struggles with Persistent IssuesThe team lost 1-2 to Union Berlin, repeating last season’s mistakes without showing improvement after the first match.
Key FactsAug 24, 2025 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
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- Despite high hopes, the squad remained mostly unchanged and exhibited similar flaws from the previous second half of the season.
- Coach Sebastian Hoeneß surprisingly employed a three-forward lineup that failed to produce the intended results.
- Defensive lapses allowed simple goals, costing the team valuable points once again.
- VfB must urgently reassess its mindset and tactics to perform better in the upcoming DFB-Pokal round.
To squander one's own potential and dominance in such a way is simply frustrating.— Rund um den Brustring notes that the waste of potential is frustrating.
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Key FactsVfB Stuttgart suffer late 1-0 defeat at HSV
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- VfB Stuttgart lost 1-0 in Hamburg on October 17; Miro Muheim scored from 25 metres in the 88th minute.
- Sebastian Hoeneß pointed to control and chances, but criticised a lack of efficiency and the decisive counterattack.
- Ermedin Demirović said he had missed two big chances and described the defeat as particularly bitter.
- Deniz Undav and Fabian Wohlgemuth said Stuttgart should have taken at least one point and then looked ahead.
We had a lot of chances overall, including two huge chances for me. It feels like we're playing for just one goal and we have to finish it off. One of my chances has to go in, if not both. And then a game can turn in a completely different direction. HSV waits for that one chance, they get it in the end, and you lose a game like that... extremely bitter.— VfB Stuttgart forward Ermedin Demirović after the defeat to Hamburger SV
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- Yussuf Poulsen put HSV ahead in the 12th minute before Sebastiaan Bornauw scored an own goal shortly before halftime.
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- Dennis Seimen made his Bundesliga debut for Stuttgart against his former loan club and was celebrated before kickoff.
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- Union Berlin ensured its Bundesliga stay early following an exciting 4-4 draw with VfB Stuttgart.
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Right now they are ready to give 100 percent and leave everything on the pitch.— Steffen Baumgart, head coach of 1. FC Union Berlin, after the team's point at Leverkusen
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