Wolfsburg midfielder Josuha Guilavogui has warned the club need to start picking up points if they want to qualify for the Champions League.
Last season's Bundesliga runners-up have only won seven of their first 19 league games this term, and have already suffered six defeats -- one more than during the entire 2014-15 campaign.
They have gone without a win in six league matches and only picked up three points in that time, while away from home they have only won once in the Bundesliga -- a 1-0 victory at Darmstadt in October.
Seventh-placed Wolfsburg are slowly losing sight of the Champions League qualification spots, currently trailing fourth-placed Bayer Leverkusen by four points, while on Saturday they visit Schalke, who have picked up three points more than them.
"It's important now to win matches again," Guilavogui, on loan from Atletico Madrid, told Bild. "We have not won in six consecutive games. If we want to return to the Champions League, we definitely have to gain points."
"It's a phase in which we have not won any games," Wolfsburg coach Dieter Hecking told kicker, adding that "not everything has been reduced to rubble."
During the final days of the 2015 summer transfer window, Wolfsburg sold Kevin De Bruyne to Manchester City and Ivan Perisic to Inter Milan, while signings Julian Draxler, Dante and Max Kruse have struggled for consistency in their performances since then.
De Bruyne and Perisic were involved in 43 of Wolfsburg's goals last term, and Hecking does not want the loss of the two players to be "an excuse," saying that "we've made this decision."
