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

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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.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 24'Goal · Mario MandžukićVfL Wolfsburg · 1-0
  • 70'Goal · Christian EiglerNürnberg · 1-1
  • 75'Yellow card · Markus FeulnerNürnberg
  • 79'Yellow card · A. DejagahVfL Wolfsburg
  • 83'Penalty goal · Mario MandžukićVfL Wolfsburg · 2-1
  • 85'Yellow card · Mike FrantzNürnberg
  • 90+1'Yellow card · Jan PolakVfL Wolfsburg

Head-to-head

10 meetings: VfL Wolfsburg 2, draws 3, Nürnberg 5.

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