Christian Eriksen Leads Wolfsburg to 3-1 Win for Relegation Playoff
christian eriksen is not in the lineup here, but VfL Wolfsburg still did exactly what it needed on Saturday afternoon: a 3-1 win at FC St. Pauli pushed the club into sixteenth place and into the relegation playoff. The result came in the thirty-fourth and final Bundesliga matchweek of the 2025/26 season and settled Wolfsburg’s fate on the last day.
Wolfsburg at Millerntor-Stadion
Konstantinos Koulierakis scored for Wolfsburg, Nikola Vasilj’s own goal added another, and Dženan Pejčinović finished the job at Millerntor-Stadion. Those three goals turned a tense away match into the result Wolfsburg needed most, with Dieter Hecking’s side leaving Hamburg with the points that changed the table.
The margin mattered because the club’s final league position was on the line from the opening whistle. Wolfsburg finished sixteenth, which sends them into a relegation playoff against the third-place 2. Bundesliga side later this week.
Hecking’s relief in Hamburg
The reaction from inside the Wolfsburg camp matched the stakes. One player called it “an outstanding performance” and said the team was better “over the 100 minutes or so,” while another said, “We have to say that we are completely relieved, because we knew that it was a match that would decide a lot.”
That same postmatch view pointed to the pressure Wolfsburg had carried into the final round after recent bad weeks and poor matches. One player said the club had “stabilised now” and was ready “for this very important match where we could have also lost everything,” a line that fits the way the afternoon unfolded at Millerntor-Stadion.
Wolfsburg and the next two matches
Wolfsburg now enters the relegation playoff with the season still alive, but with no room for the drop in intensity the squad kept talking about after the final whistle. One player said, “We need to keep this intensity. We can celebrate this win and then give everything in the next two matches.”
That is the practical next step for the club after a result that rewrote the bottom end of the final Bundesliga table. The win also gave Wolfsburg something it had not had in the earlier stretch: a match in which the result matched the urgency, and the table now reflects it.
