FC Barcelona 4-0 VfB Stuttgart: result and report
Champions League · Wednesday 17 March 2010
Result
FC Barcelona 4-0 VfB Stuttgart
Champions League · Wednesday 17 March 2010, 19:45 UTC · half-time 2-0
FC Barcelona 4-0 VfB Stuttgart: match report
FC Barcelona defeated VfB Stuttgart 4-0 in the Champions League on Wednesday 17 March 2010. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Lionel Messi opened the scoring in the 13th minute. FC Barcelona's goals came from Lionel Messi (13'), Pedro (22'), Lionel Messi (60') and Bojan Krkic (89'). VfB Stuttgart did not score.
Discipline: FC Barcelona received no yellow cards; VfB Stuttgart received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game FC Barcelona were 20th on 12 points from 7 and VfB Stuttgart 15th on 14 points from 9. This fixture belongs to an earlier Champions League season and is kept for reference.
FC Barcelona lined up in a 4-3-3 and VfB Stuttgart in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 FC Barcelona wins, 1 draw and 0 for VfB Stuttgart.
Going into the match FC Barcelona's last five read D-W-W-D-L and VfB Stuttgart's D-W-W-D-L.
Key events
- 13'Goal · Lionel Messi
- 22'Goal · Pedro
- 43'Yellow card · Jens Lehmann
- 45'Yellow card · Pavel Pogrebnyak
- 54'Yellow card · Zdravko Kuzmanović
- 60'Goal · Lionel Messi
- 89'Goal · Bojan Krkic
Head-to-head
Team news
FC Barcelona expected line-up (4-3-3)
Puyol, Lilian Thuram, Deco, Andrés Iniesta, Ludovic Giuly, Ronaldinho, Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Gianluca Zambrotta, Rafael Márquez Álvarez, Eiður Guðjohnsen
VfB Stuttgart line-up (4-4-2)
Jens Lehmann, Georg Niedermeier, Matthieu Delpierre, Alexander Hleb, Stefano Celozzi, Sami Khedira, Zdravko Kuzmanović, Christian Träsch, Cacau, Pavel Pogrebnyak, Cristian Molinaro