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Wolfsburg (AP) - FC Schalke 04 has come a big step closer to relegation to the Bundesliga.

In the second game under the new head coach Dimitrios Grammozis, the knocked-down bottom of the table went down on Saturday with 0: 5 (0: 1) at VfL Wolfsburg.

The occurrence of the defeat clearly showed that the fourth coaching change of this horror season cannot slow down the sporting crash of the former Champions League permanent guest.

At the front, the Schalke team only had their first chance to score when the score was 3-0.

And behind, a bizarre own goal by Shkodran Mustafi in the 31st minute initiated the 17th bankruptcy in the 25th league game.

After the break, Wout Weghorst (51st), Ridle Baku (58th), Josip Brekalo (64th) and Maximilian Philipp (79th) met for the "Wolves".

The Schalke footballers seem trapped in a downward spiral.

The efforts to get Ralf Rangnick back will not change that for the time being.

According to media reports, influential forces from business and politics want to install the former coach as the new sports director and strong man of the traditional club in the summer.

"Bild" and "Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" reported on Saturday that there was therefore a big dispute on the supervisory board, the incumbent chairman Jens Buchta apparently favoring a solution with the Leipzig sports director Markus Krösche.

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Whoever should tackle the rebuilding of the sport: Before the Wolfsburg game, the team was “not at all concerned”, said licensed player coordinator Gerald Asamoah in a Sky interview.

The position of the Grammozi, who was only signed up on March 2, weakened the reports about Rangnick and Krösche, because it is now even less clear than before whether the 42-year-old is only working as a transitional or a future solution.

Regardless of this, Grammozis tried in his second game to encourage his team to be more courageous and less passive with active coaching.

Schalke also played very enthusiastically at the beginning and annoyed the sedate Wolfsburg early on.

But it quickly became clear: if the third-placed team picked up the pace, it was immediately dangerous.

An early header by Josuha Guilavogui (15th) was only missed because the ball fell on the foot of the offside Admir Mehmedi just before the goal line.

The luck that Schalke had in this scene was used up only a quarter of an hour later: Guilavogui wanted to play Mehmedi in the penalty area, Schalke Malick Thiaw intervened, but directed the ball to Mustafi's head so that he could get from there flew out into their own goal.

A goal that fits this completely messed up season - and which also took all courage from the bottom of the table.

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In the half-time break, Schalke saved themselves without a second goal.

After the break, it didn't even take 15 minutes until this game was decided.

The Wolfsburg seemed to have needed such an opponent.

Because after the two defeats in Leipzig (Cup) and Hoffenheim (Bundesliga) they found it difficult to get into the game on Saturday.

After the 2-0, however, the "wolves" ate the harmless Schalke.

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