VfL Wolfsburg 2-2 Nürnberg: result and report
Bundesliga · Sunday 31 March 2013
Result
VfL Wolfsburg 2-2 Nürnberg
Bundesliga · Sunday 31 March 2013, 13:30 UTC · half-time 2-0
VfL Wolfsburg 2-2 Nürnberg: match report
VfL Wolfsburg drew with Nürnberg 2-2 in the Bundesliga on Sunday 31 March 2013. The half-time score was 2-0.
Diego opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. VfL Wolfsburg's goals came from Diego (3') and Ivica Olić (27'). Nürnberg scored through Timmy Simons (61') and Per Nilsson (66').
Discipline: VfL Wolfsburg received 3 yellow cards; Nürnberg received no yellow cards.
Going into the game VfL Wolfsburg were 14th on 31 points from 26 and Nürnberg 11th on 36 points from 26. VfL Wolfsburg went on to finish that season 11th with 43 points, and Nürnberg 10th with 46.
VfL Wolfsburg lined up in a 4-1-3-2 and Nürnberg in a 4-1-4-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 VfL Wolfsburg wins, 1 draw and 5 for Nürnberg.
Going into the match VfL Wolfsburg's last five read D-W-L-D-L and Nürnberg's W-W-D-D-W.
Key events
- 3'Goal · Diego
- 27'Goal · Ivica Olić
- 40'Yellow card · Jan Polak
- 61'Goal · Timmy Simons
- 65'Yellow card · Diego
- 66'Goal · Per Nilsson
- 84'Yellow card · Makoto Hasebe
Head-to-head
Team news
VfL Wolfsburg line-up (4-1-3-2)
Diego Benaglio, Makoto Hasebe, Naldo, Ricardo Rodríguez, Simon Kjær, Marcel Schäfer, Slobodan Medojevic, Diego, Jan Polak, Ivica Olić, Patrick Helmes
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