FC Barcelona 3-1 VfB Stuttgart: result and report
Champions League · Wednesday 12 December 2007
Result
FC Barcelona 3-1 VfB Stuttgart
Champions League · Wednesday 12 December 2007, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-1
FC Barcelona 3-1 VfB Stuttgart: match report
FC Barcelona defeated VfB Stuttgart 3-1 in the Champions League on Wednesday 12 December 2007. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Antônio da Silva opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. FC Barcelona's goals came from Giovani Dos Santos (36'), Samuel Eto'o (57') and Ronaldinho Gaúcho (67'). VfB Stuttgart scored through Antônio da Silva (3').
Discipline: FC Barcelona received 1 yellow card; VfB Stuttgart received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game FC Barcelona were 17th on 11 points from 5 and VfB Stuttgart 51st on 3 points from 5. This fixture belongs to an earlier Champions League season and is kept for reference.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 FC Barcelona win, 0 draws and 0 for VfB Stuttgart.
Going into the match FC Barcelona's last five read D-W-D-W-W and VfB Stuttgart's W-L-L-L-L.
Key events
- 3'Goal · Antônio da Silva
- 36'Yellow card · Raphael Schafer
- 36'Goal · Giovani Dos Santos
- 49'Yellow card · Fernando Meira
- 57'Goal · Samuel Eto'o
- 67'Goal · Ronaldinho Gaúcho
- 90+2'Yellow card · R. Márquez
Head-to-head
Team news
FC Barcelona expected line-up
Puyol, Rafael Márquez Álvarez, Deco, Andrés Iniesta, Ludovic Giuly, Ronaldinho, Víctor Valdés, Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Gianluca Zambrotta, Thiago Motta
VfB Stuttgart line-up (4-1-2-3)
Raphael Schäfer, Ricardo Osorio, Serdar Taşçı, Fernando Meira, Arthur Boka, Matthieu Delpierre, Alexander Farnerud, Yildiray Basturk, Antônio da Silva, Ewerthon, Ciprian Marica