Nick Woltemade continues hero history: VfB Stuttgart freezes Jürgen Klopp’s smile

Nagelsmann crazy about happiness?
VfB Stuttgart freezes Jürgen Klopp’s smile

04.04.2025, 6:29 a.m.

VfB Stuttgart travels to Berlin and dreams of the triumph in the DFB Cup. The Swabians are the favorite against Arminia Bielefeld. In the semi-finals, VfB clears the league rival RB Leipzig. Several national players and a DFB candidate are convincing.

When Jamie Leweling had scored 3-1, Jürgen Klopp rose from his seat in the VIP lodge and turned his back on the field. It wasn’t a picture with a symbolic character. The new Red Bull football boss did not go away from his Leipzigers at that moment, rather he was looking for a glimmer of hope. Klopp looked at one of the screens. Was there a foul, a offside position, a something? No, nothing was there. Leweling, the national player, had pressed a rebound over the line. VfB Stuttgart led 3-1 against RB Leipzig in this 73rd minute, defended the lead and moved into the DFB Cup final.

The Bundesliga team from Arminia Bielefeld are waiting there on May 24th. The third division team plastered four clubs from the upper house on their way to the Olympic Stadium. A fifth victory would be a world sensation, especially since the Arminia does not have the power of native alpine pasture. Say: Stuttgart is the big favorite.

One that the move into the final was particularly important was Maxi Mittelstädt. The left -back falsifies tears. He comes from Berlin and is now eligible to participate in this big game for the first time. Against RB, Mittelstädt was not granted a protagonist role. Unlike some of his national team colleagues and Nick Woltemade, who more and more mutates into the German football sensation. The striker, who once had trouble hit a barn gate from near -distance, now not only enchants the Swabians.

DFB stars shine in many roles

A few days ago, he even withdrawn the Spanish U21 national team with three goals and then got to read things that you never read about German strikers. In the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” stood, for example: “His overview and calm suggest an experienced director, his outstanding technology is paired with the body control of a ballet dancer, the cadence of his movements gives him the elegant aura of the super cracks.” Woltemade also kept continuously knitting against RB on his heroic history.

After 57 minutes, the almost two -meter striker had placed 2-0. He had prepared the goal himself and then closed ice cold with a shot in the long corner. He had also refined Angelo Stiller’s early dream goal, who had met after six minutes by distance volley. It was the very big evening of the German international at VfB (we just include Woltemade now). Stiller, Woltemade and Leweling met (Woltemade had his head here before), Mittelstädt cried with happiness and goalkeeper Alexander Nübel brought RB and Klopp to despair. With several outstanding parades against striker Loïs Openda, he sent emphatically greetings to national coach Julian Nagelsmann, who recently chose him as number one and for Oliver Baumann. However, the Keeper question at the DFB team will soon not be so exciting anyway. After his serious injury, Marc-André Ter Stegen is about to come shortly at FC Barcelona.

“Football”, Woltemade admitted, “it wasn’t our best game. But the will and the courage were there.” The 23-year-old is now looking forward to the final: “I think Berlin is getting crazy. It is going crazy and the fans will tear down there. I will never forget something like that in my life,” said the striker at Sky. “We weren’t in the final for a long time. Everyone wanted it that way,” said Stiller. The national player was full of emotions and, after the competitive semi -finals, recalled the rapid development of the club: “Our way is special. Two years ago we played relegation, now we are in the cup final.”

Klopp becomes “a thousand percent” not RB coach

However, a man of the game had also become clopp. Again and again it was shown in the TV picture. How he chose or suffered either. The flagship of the shower group had recently come in turbulent lake, Captain rose was rinsed from the helm. RB pulled the ripcord, the season goals were in danger. Zsolt Löw should now judge it for the time being and lead the team into the Champions League again. The performance of the Leipziger in his debut was very decent, but the result was not. Löw is a close confidante of Klopp and is said to return to the side of the Global Head of Soccer in summer. So also means: Klopp will not become a trainer for the new season of Leipziger. That was long than actually excluded, but what does that mean in football? Before the kick-off on Wednesday evening, however, the rumors were brought forward again: Red Bull Managing Director Oliver Mintzlaff said at Sky: “I would do that beforehand, and nobody wants to see that. I can do that (Klopp, note. D. Red.) Exclude a thousand percent. “

RB can now fully concentrate on the end of the season in the Bundesliga and on the coaching search. This week the rumor circulated that Eintracht Frankfurt’s European Cup hero Oliver Glasner, who was now under contract with Crystal Palace, could be under contract. There should be contacts between both sides. Stuttgart’s Sebastian Hoeneß was also a candidate for a long time, but not a few weeks ago after his surprising contract extension. He is in love with his team anyway and broke a TV interview before happiness. He absolutely wanted to The most important team photo of the recent club history.

Hoeneß later described what was going on. “I gave an interview at ZDF and then saw on the screen that the team and all the supervisors and all of them position themselves in goal. And then I had to cancel the interview because I also wanted to be in the photo.” He thought that the lawn was moist and that he could slip in. “It didn’t work so well. But of course I wanted to be there.” On the photo. And in Berlin.