A game full of chances and talking points was decided by Bayer Leverkusen loanee Dominik Kohr's first Bundesliga goal. His strike, following Diego Benaglio's penalty save from Tobias Werner, was enough to halt the Wolves in their tracks and probably bring an end to the Bundesliga title race.
Markus Weinzierl's side were determined to bounce back from a recent run of results that had seen them win one of their last five and drop to sixth in the table. Though they remained just one points from the Champions League places, despite a shock 1-0 defeat to Hertha BSC last weekend. The highly thought of head coach kept faith in his players and made only two alterations, however; replacing Caiuby and Pierre-Emile Höjbjerg with Ji-Dong Won and Dominik Kohr.
Wolfsburg and Dieter Hecking were still managing to continue their assault on Bayern Munich, whilst managing highly successful Europa League and DFB-Pokal campaigns. The Wolves progressed to the last eight of the latter competition thanks to a 2-0 win over RB Leipzig on Wednesday. Like his fellow coach, he made limited changes from the previous game; Robin Knoche, Vieirinha and Ricardo Rodriguez returned to the starting line-up ahead of Sebastian Jung, Timm Klose and Manuel Schäfer.
Augsburg were looking lively, back to their usual high-pressure self and felt hard done by when they weren't given an early penalty. Tobias Werner went up against Vieirinha and the Portuguese wing-man looked to have caught the advancing attacker, though Manuel Gräfe waved away the appeals.
Werner wasn't too disheartened and almost capitalised on a Naldo mistake. The usually safe centre-back mistimed a header and it fell straight to Werner's feet; he struck a powerful half-volley at goal and Diego Benaglio was forced to turn the ball away with his feet.
Wolfsburg were surprisingly quiet, especially given their recent free-scoring run. The main outlet for Hecking's side was Ricardo Rodriguez, but the Swiss left-back's pin-point crosses were being well snuffed out by Ragnar Klavan.
The hosts picked up where they left off in the first-half and Benaglio need a strong hand to tip over Raul Bobadilla's well-struck shot from twenty-yards. However, Bas Dost was beginning to come into the game more and more and went close twice in quick succession.
Ji and Andre Schürrle, who had both been largely anonymous during the game, both were subbed in the hope that they could spark a chance. It wasn't any of their replacements who created havoc, but Abdul Rahman Baba's run was halted by Naldo and Gräfe did point to the spot this time.
Werner stepped up and was brilliantly denied by Benaglio, although he was unable to prevent Kohr from following in and smashing the rebound in off the despairing 'keeper's legs.
The Wolves fifteen game unbeaten run was coming to an end and Niklas Bendtner was thrown on to try and salvage a point, replacing Joshua Guilavogui. It seemed to hinder them further, as it was one less body for Augsburg to negotiate in midfield.
In the end it looked like the decision had paid off, as Robin Knoche headed in a late equaliser; or so he thought. Gräfe adjudged the centre-back to have pushed his marker in the back to reach the ball, a harsh call that even the most staunch of Augsburg fans would admit went in their favour.
The final whistle blew as Augsburg and Dominik Kohr finally celebrated their first win in five games and moved level with Schalke in the European places. Wolfsburg lost further ground to Bayern Munich and sit eleven points behind the reigning champions with just ten games to go.