VfB Stuttgart 0-2 Bayer 04 Leverkusen: result and report

Bundesliga · Friday 8 December 2017

Result

VfB Stuttgart 0-2 Bayer 04 Leverkusen

Bundesliga · Friday 8 December 2017, 19:30 UTC · half-time 0-1

VfB Stuttgart · Bayer 04 Leverkusen · Bundesliga predictions

VfB Stuttgart 0-2 Bayer 04 Leverkusen: match report

VfB Stuttgart lost to Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0-2 in the Bundesliga on Friday 8 December 2017. The half-time score was 0-1.

Kai Havertz opened the scoring in the 20th minute. VfB Stuttgart did not score. Bayer 04 Leverkusen scored through Kai Havertz (20') and Lars Bender (80').

Discipline: VfB Stuttgart received 1 yellow card; Bayer 04 Leverkusen received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game VfB Stuttgart were 13th on 17 points from 14 and Bayer 04 Leverkusen 9th on 21 points from 14. VfB Stuttgart went on to finish that season 7th with 51 points, and Bayer 04 Leverkusen 5th with 55.

VfB Stuttgart lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Bayer 04 Leverkusen in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Leon Bailey of Bayer 04 Leverkusen (8.6), ahead of Bernd Leno (8.1).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 VfB Stuttgart wins, 3 draws and 7 for Bayer 04 Leverkusen.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 20'Goal · Kai HavertzBayer 04 Leverkusen · 0-1
  • 71'Yellow card · Santiago AscacíbarVfB Stuttgart
  • 75'Yellow card · Kai HavertzBayer 04 Leverkusen
  • 80'Goal · Lars BenderBayer 04 Leverkusen · 0-2

Head-to-head

10 meetings: VfB Stuttgart 0, draws 3, Bayer 04 Leverkusen 7.

Team news

VfB Stuttgart line-up (3-4-2-1)

Ron-Robert Zieler, Timo Baumgartl, Holger Badstuber, Marcin Kamiński, Benjamin Pavard, Christian Gentner, Santiago Ascacíbar, Emiliano Insúa, Anastasios Donis, Berkay Özcan, Simon Terodde

Bayer 04 Leverkusen line-up (3-4-2-1)

Bernd Leno, Jonathan Tah, Sven Bender, Panagiotis Retsos, Admir Mehmedi, Dominik Kohr, Lars Bender, Leon Bailey, Kai Havertz, Julian Brandt, Kevin Volland