Wolfsburg surprised everyone, including themselves, in claiming the league title in football’s last great league championship, thanks in no small part to having Europe’s most lethal strike partnership in Grafite and Dzeko.
The intrigue of the Champions League does not lie in exhibitionistic display of all that money can buy. Perfection cannot have been bought from any catalogue. Some absurdly gifted footballers will be on show in the quarter-finals that start tonight, but the tournament may be enthralling for its proof that the risk of embarrassment and failure cannot always be kept at bay. At the weekend Bayern Munich were beaten 5-1 by Wolfsburg and slithered to fourth place in the Bundesliga. The losers are extremely affluent, but that was no protection.
Kevin McCarra, The Guardian, 7th April, 2009
Another one for the history books.