VfB Stuttgart 3-0 Nürnberg: result and report

Bundesliga · Wednesday 16 April 2008

Result

VfB Stuttgart 3-0 Nürnberg

Bundesliga · Wednesday 16 April 2008, 18:00 UTC · half-time 3-0

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VfB Stuttgart 3-0 Nürnberg: match report

VfB Stuttgart defeated Nürnberg 3-0 in the Bundesliga on Wednesday 16 April 2008. It was 3-0 at half-time.

Cacau opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. VfB Stuttgart's goals came from Cacau (3'), Antônio da Silva (13') and Fernando Meira (31'). Nürnberg did not score.

Discipline: VfB Stuttgart received 1 yellow card; Nürnberg received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game VfB Stuttgart were 6th on 45 points from 28 and Nürnberg 18th on 23 points from 27. VfB Stuttgart went on to finish that season 6th with 52 points, and Nürnberg 16th with 31.

VfB Stuttgart lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Nürnberg in a 4-2-3-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 VfB Stuttgart wins, 0 draws and 2 for Nürnberg.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · CacauVfB Stuttgart · 1-0
  • 13'Goal · Antônio da SilvaVfB Stuttgart · 2-0
  • 31'Goal · Fernando MeiraVfB Stuttgart · 3-0
  • 34'Yellow card · R. HilbertVfB Stuttgart
  • 49'Yellow card · Javier PinolaNürnberg

Head-to-head

5 meetings: VfB Stuttgart 3, draws 0, Nürnberg 2.

Team news

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

Sven Ulreich, Matthieu Delpierre, Roberto Hilbert, Fernando Meira, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Yildiray Basturk, Sami Khedira, Pavel Pardo Segura, Mario Gómez, Cacau, Andreas Beck

Nürnberg line-up (4-2-3-1)

Jaromír Blazek, Andreas Wolf, Tomas Galasek, Zvjezdan Misimović, Ivan Saenko, Jan Dalgas Kristiansen, Marco Engelhardt, Angelos Charisteas, Róbert Vittek, Javier Pinola, Jacques Abardonado