VfL Wolfsburg 2-1 Nürnberg: result and report
Bundesliga · Saturday 15 October 2011
Result
VfL Wolfsburg 2-1 Nürnberg
Bundesliga · Saturday 15 October 2011, 13:30 UTC · half-time 1-0
VfL Wolfsburg 2-1 Nürnberg: match report
VfL Wolfsburg beat Nürnberg 2-1 in the Bundesliga on Saturday 15 October 2011. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Mario Mandžukić opened the scoring in the 24th minute. VfL Wolfsburg's goals came from Mario Mandžukić (24') and Mario Mandžukić (83', penalty). Nürnberg scored through Christian Eigler (70').
Discipline: VfL Wolfsburg received 2 yellow cards; Nürnberg received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game VfL Wolfsburg were 13th on 9 points from 8 and Nürnberg 11th on 11 points from 8. VfL Wolfsburg went on to finish that season 8th with 44 points, and Nürnberg 10th with 42.
VfL Wolfsburg lined up in a 4-4-2 and Nürnberg in a 4-1-4-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 VfL Wolfsburg wins, 3 draws and 5 for Nürnberg.
Going into the match VfL Wolfsburg's last five read L-W-L-W-L and Nürnberg's D-L-D-W-W.
Key events
- 24'Goal · Mario Mandžukić
- 70'Goal · Christian Eigler
- 75'Yellow card · Markus Feulner
- 79'Yellow card · A. Dejagah
- 83'Penalty goal · Mario Mandžukić
- 85'Yellow card · Mike Frantz
- 90+1'Yellow card · Jan Polak
Head-to-head
Team news
VfL Wolfsburg line-up (4-4-2)
Diego Benaglio, Alexander Madlung, B. Thoelke, Marcel Schäfer, Josué, Hasan Salihamidzic, Christian Träsch, Ashkan Dejagah, Yohandry Orozco, Srdjan Lakic, Mario Mandžukić
Nürnberg expected line-up (4-1-4-1)
Raphael Schäfer, Andreas Wolf, Dennis Diekmeier, Andreas Ottl, Mike Frantz, İlkay Gündoğan, Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting, Albert Bunjaku, Javier Pinola