Werder Bremen 4-1 VfL Wolfsburg: result and report

Bundesliga · Saturday 10 December 2011

Result

Werder Bremen 4-1 VfL Wolfsburg

Bundesliga · Saturday 10 December 2011, 14:30 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Werder Bremen 4-1 VfL Wolfsburg: match report

Werder Bremen defeated VfL Wolfsburg 4-1 in the Bundesliga on Saturday 10 December 2011. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Sokratis Papastathopoulos opened the scoring in the 18th minute. Werder Bremen's goals came from Sokratis Papastathopoulos (18'), Claudio Pizarro (45'), Markus Rosenberg (55') and Marko Arnautovic (71'). VfL Wolfsburg scored through Marcel Schäfer (86').

Discipline: Werder Bremen received 1 yellow card; VfL Wolfsburg received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Werder Bremen were 5th on 26 points from 15 and VfL Wolfsburg 13th on 17 points from 15. Werder Bremen went on to finish that season 9th with 42 points, and VfL Wolfsburg 8th with 44.

Werder Bremen lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and VfL Wolfsburg in a 4-3-3.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Werder Bremen wins, 3 draws and 3 for VfL Wolfsburg.

Going into the match Werder Bremen's last five read L-W-L-W-W and VfL Wolfsburg's D-L-W-L-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 18'Goal · Sokratis PapastathopoulosWerder Bremen · 1-0
  • 21'Yellow card · JosuéVfL Wolfsburg
  • 27'Yellow card · ChrisVfL Wolfsburg
  • 45'Goal · Claudio PizarroWerder Bremen · 2-0
  • 46'Yellow card · Sokratis PapastathopoulosWerder Bremen
  • 55'Goal · Markus RosenbergWerder Bremen · 3-0
  • 71'Goal · Marko ArnautovicWerder Bremen · 4-0
  • 74'Yellow card · Christian TräschVfL Wolfsburg
  • 86'Goal · Marcel SchäferVfL Wolfsburg · 4-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Werder Bremen 4, draws 3, VfL Wolfsburg 3.

Team news

Werder Bremen line-up (4-3-1-2)

Tim Wiese, Naldo, Lukas Schmitz, Sokratis, Andreas Wolf, Clemens Fritz, Aleksandar Ignjovski, Florian Trinks, Philipp Bargfrede, Markus Rosenberg, Claudio Pizarro

VfL Wolfsburg line-up (4-3-3)

Diego Benaglio, Alexander Madlung, Chris, B. Thoelke, Marcel Schäfer, Josué, Hasan Salihamidzic, Christian Träsch, Ashkan Dejagah, Yohandry Orozco, Mario Mandžukić