VfB Stuttgart 4-1 Werder Bremen: result and report
Bundesliga · Saturday 4 October 2008
Result
VfB Stuttgart 4-1 Werder Bremen
Bundesliga · Saturday 4 October 2008, 13:30 UTC · half-time 2-0
VfB Stuttgart 4-1 Werder Bremen: match report
VfB Stuttgart beat Werder Bremen 4-1 in the Bundesliga on Saturday 4 October 2008. The half-time score was 2-0.
Sami Khedira opened the scoring in the 18th minute. VfB Stuttgart's goals came from Sami Khedira (18'), Christian Träsch (29'), R. Hilbert (63') and Martin Lanig (88'). Werder Bremen scored through Diego (65').
Discipline: VfB Stuttgart received 3 yellow cards; Werder Bremen received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game VfB Stuttgart were 7th on 10 points from 6 and Werder Bremen 3rd on 11 points from 6. VfB Stuttgart went on to finish that season 3rd with 64 points, and Werder Bremen 10th with 45.
VfB Stuttgart lined up in a 3-4-3 and Werder Bremen in a 4-1-3-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 VfB Stuttgart wins, 2 draws and 1 for Werder Bremen.
Going into the match VfB Stuttgart's last five read L-W-D-W-L and Werder Bremen's W-W-W-L-D.
Key events
- 18'Goal · Sami Khedira
- 22'Yellow card · Mario Gómez
- 29'Goal · Christian Träsch
- 54'Yellow card · Arthur Boka
- 55'Yellow card · Clemens Fritz
- 63'Goal · R. Hilbert
- 65'Goal · Diego
- 75'Yellow card · Diego
- 77'Yellow card · Jens Lehmann
- 86'Yellow card · Petri Pasanen
- 88'Goal · Martin Lanig
- 88'Yellow card · Aaron Hunt
Head-to-head
Team news
VfB Stuttgart expected line-up (3-4-3)
Jens Lehmann, Matthieu Delpierre, Arthur Boka, Serdar Taşçı, Ricardo Osorio, Roberto Hilbert, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Pavel Pardo Segura, Jan Simák, Mario Gómez, Ciprian Marica
Werder Bremen line-up (4-1-3-2)
Tim Wiese, Petri Pasanen, Naldo, Sebastian Prödl, Frank Baumann, Clemens Fritz, Mesut Özil, Markus Rosenberg, Claudio Pizarro, Diego, Torsten Frings