Werder Bremen 2-1 VfL Wolfsburg: result and report
Bundesliga · Saturday 24 September 2016
Result
Werder Bremen 2-1 VfL Wolfsburg
Bundesliga · Saturday 24 September 2016, 16:30 UTC · half-time 0-0
Werder Bremen 2-1 VfL Wolfsburg: match report
Werder Bremen won against VfL Wolfsburg 2-1 in the Bundesliga on Saturday 24 September 2016. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Werder Bremen's goals came from Lennart Thy (86') and Theodor Gebre Selassie (90+1'). VfL Wolfsburg scored through an own goal by Robert Bauer (69').
Discipline: Werder Bremen received 1 yellow card; VfL Wolfsburg received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Werder Bremen were 18th on 0 points from 4 and VfL Wolfsburg 12th on 5 points from 4. Werder Bremen went on to finish that season 8th with 45 points, and VfL Wolfsburg 16th with 37.
Werder Bremen lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and VfL Wolfsburg in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Philipp Wollscheid of VfL Wolfsburg (7.8), ahead of Zlatko Junuzović (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Werder Bremen wins, 1 draw and 7 for VfL Wolfsburg.
Key events
- 26'Yellow card · Jeffrey Bruma
- 40'Yellow card · Paul Seguin
- 49'Yellow card · Jannes Horn
- 61'Yellow card · Zlatko Junuzović
- 69'Own goal · Robert Bauer
- 86'Goal · Lennart Thy
- 90+1'Goal · Theodor Gebre Selassie
Head-to-head
Team news
Werder Bremen line-up (4-1-4-1)
Jaroslav Drobný, Theodor Gebre Selassie, Milos Veljkovic, Niklas Moisander, Robert Bauer, Florian Grillitsch, Izet Hajrovic, Clemens Fritz, Zlatko Junuzović, Serge Gnabry, Ousman Manneh
VfL Wolfsburg line-up (4-1-4-1)
Koen Casteels, Vieirinha, Jeffrey Bruma, Philipp Wollscheid, Jannes Horn, Maximilian Arnold, Jakub Błaszczykowski, Paul Seguin, Yannick Gerhardt, Julian Draxler, Mario Gómez