VfB Stuttgart 2-1 Borussia Dortmund: result and report
Bundesliga · Saturday 7 March 2009
Result
VfB Stuttgart 2-1 Borussia Dortmund
Bundesliga · Saturday 7 March 2009, 14:30 UTC · half-time 1-0
VfB Stuttgart 2-1 Borussia Dortmund: match report
VfB Stuttgart defeated Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in the Bundesliga on Saturday 7 March 2009. The half-time score was 1-0.
Élson opened the scoring in the 10th minute. VfB Stuttgart's goals came from Élson (10') and Mario Gómez (62'). Borussia Dortmund scored through Nelson Valdez (52').
Discipline: VfB Stuttgart received 3 yellow cards; Borussia Dortmund received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game VfB Stuttgart were 8th on 36 points from 22 and Borussia Dortmund 9th on 33 points from 22. VfB Stuttgart went on to finish that season 3rd with 64 points, and Borussia Dortmund 6th with 59.
VfB Stuttgart lined up in a 4-4-2 and Borussia Dortmund in a 4-1-4-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 VfB Stuttgart win, 2 draws and 4 for Borussia Dortmund.
Going into the match VfB Stuttgart's last five read W-D-D-W-W and Borussia Dortmund's D-D-D-L-D.
Key events
- 10'Goal · Élson
- 22'Yellow card · Thomas Hitzlsperger
- 43'Yellow card · Nelson Valdez
- 44'Yellow card · Serdar Taşçı
- 52'Goal · Nelson Valdez
- 62'Goal · Mario Gómez
- 79'Yellow card · Cacau
Head-to-head
Team news
VfB Stuttgart line-up (4-4-2)
Jens Lehmann, Ricardo Osorio, Serdar Taşçı, Georg Niedermeier, Roberto Hilbert, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Élson, Sami Khedira, Christian Träsch, Ciprian Marica, Mario Gómez
Borussia Dortmund expected line-up (4-1-4-1)
Roman Weidenfeller, Neven Subotić, Patrick Owomoyela, Young-Pyo Lee, Felipe Santana, Florian Kringe, Tinga, Tamás Hajnal, Alex Frei, Nuri Şahin