Werder Bremen 2-1 VfL Wolfsburg: result and report
Bundesliga · Saturday 13 December 2008
Result
Werder Bremen 2-1 VfL Wolfsburg
Bundesliga · Saturday 13 December 2008, 14:30 UTC · half-time 1-1
Werder Bremen 2-1 VfL Wolfsburg: match report
Werder Bremen won against VfL Wolfsburg 2-1 in the Bundesliga on Saturday 13 December 2008. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Christian Gentner opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Werder Bremen's goals came from Per Mertesacker (27') and an own goal by Josué (63'). VfL Wolfsburg scored through Christian Gentner (3').
Discipline: Werder Bremen received 1 yellow card; VfL Wolfsburg received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Werder Bremen were 10th on 23 points from 16 and VfL Wolfsburg 7th on 26 points from 16. Werder Bremen went on to finish that season 10th with 45 points, and VfL Wolfsburg 1st with 69.
Werder Bremen lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and VfL Wolfsburg in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Werder Bremen wins, 2 draws and 1 for VfL Wolfsburg.
Going into the match Werder Bremen's last five read L-W-L-W-D and VfL Wolfsburg's W-D-W-L-W.
Key events
- 3'Goal · Christian Gentner
- 18'Yellow card · Sebastian Boenisch
- 27'Goal · Per Mertesacker
- 30'Yellow card · A. Dejagah
- 63'Own goal · Josué
Head-to-head
Team news
Werder Bremen line-up (4-3-1-2)
Tim Wiese, Sebastian Boenisch, Sebastian Prödl, Per Mertesacker, Jurica Vranjes, Clemens Fritz, Mesut Özil, Aaron Hunt, S. Husejinović, Markus Rosenberg, Torsten Frings
VfL Wolfsburg line-up (4-2-3-1)
Diego Benaglio, Cristian Zaccardo, Ricardo Costa, Makoto Hasebe, Andrea Barzagli, Marcel Schäfer, Josué, Zvjezdan Misimović, Ashkan Dejagah, Edin Džeko, Christian Gentner