Nürnberg 5-2 Borussia Mönchengladbach: result and report

Bundesliga · Tuesday 2 May 2006

Result

Nürnberg 5-2 Borussia Mönchengladbach

Bundesliga · Tuesday 2 May 2006, 18:00 UTC · half-time 1-2

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Nürnberg 5-2 Borussia Mönchengladbach: match report

Nürnberg defeated Borussia Mönchengladbach 5-2 in the Bundesliga on Tuesday 2 May 2006. It was 1-2 at half-time.

Róbert Vittek opened the scoring in the 14th minute. Nürnberg's goals came from Róbert Vittek (14'), Jan Polak (59'), Róbert Vittek (65'), Ivan Saenko (86') and Stefan Kießling (88'). Borussia Mönchengladbach scored through Zé Antonio (34') and W. Sonck (36').

Discipline: Nürnberg received 2 yellow cards; Borussia Mönchengladbach received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Nürnberg were 10th on 37 points from 31 and Borussia Mönchengladbach 9th on 38 points from 31. Nürnberg went on to finish that season 8th with 44 points, and Borussia Mönchengladbach 10th with 42.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Nürnberg win, 0 draws and 0 for Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Going into the match Nürnberg's last five read L-W-L-W-D and Borussia Mönchengladbach's D-L-L-W-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 14'Goal · Róbert VittekNürnberg · 1-0
  • 29'Yellow card · E. PolanskiBorussia Mönchengladbach
  • 34'Goal · Zé AntonioBorussia Mönchengladbach · 1-1
  • 36'Goal · W. SonckBorussia Mönchengladbach · 1-2
  • 44'Yellow card · GláuberNürnberg
  • 44'Yellow card · Nando RafaelBorussia Mönchengladbach
  • 45'Yellow card · Zé AntonioBorussia Mönchengladbach
  • 51'Yellow card · Javier PinolaNürnberg
  • 54'Missed penalty · Róbert VittekNürnberg
  • 59'Goal · Jan PolakNürnberg · 2-2
  • 65'Goal · Róbert VittekNürnberg · 3-2
  • 86'Goal · Ivan SaenkoNürnberg · 4-2
  • 88'Goal · Stefan KießlingNürnberg · 5-2

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Nürnberg 1, draws 0, Borussia Mönchengladbach 0.

Team news

Nürnberg line-up

Raphael Schäfer, Gláuber, Jan Polak, Jan Dalgas Kristiansen, Ivan Saenko, Jaouhar Mnari, Stefan Kießling, Róbert Vittek, Mario Cantaluppi, Javier Pinola, Dominik Reinhardt

Borussia Mönchengladbach line-up

Kasey Keller, Filip Daems, Marcell Jansen, Zé Antonio, Milan Fukal, Eugen Polanski, Peer Kluge, Wesley Sonck, Nando Rafael, Oliver Neuville, Bo Svensson