Schalke 04 3-1 VfB Stuttgart: result and report

Bundesliga · Saturday 21 January 2012

Result

Schalke 04 3-1 VfB Stuttgart

Bundesliga · Saturday 21 January 2012, 14:30 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Schalke 04 3-1 VfB Stuttgart: match report

Schalke 04 defeated VfB Stuttgart 3-1 in the Bundesliga on Saturday 21 January 2012. The half-time score was 1-0.

Joel Matip opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Schalke 04's goals came from Joel Matip (3'), Kyriakos Papadopoulos (57') and Julian Draxler (80'). VfB Stuttgart scored through Shinji Okazaki (87').

Discipline: Schalke 04 received 1 yellow card; VfB Stuttgart received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Schalke 04 were 4th on 34 points from 17 and VfB Stuttgart 8th on 22 points from 17. Schalke 04 went on to finish that season 3rd with 64 points, and VfB Stuttgart 6th with 53.

Schalke 04 lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and VfB Stuttgart in a 4-3-3.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Schalke 04 wins, 2 draws and 4 for VfB Stuttgart.

Going into the match Schalke 04's last five read W-W-W-L-W and VfB Stuttgart's L-L-D-L-W.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · Joel MatipSchalke 04 · 1-0
  • 29'Yellow card · Tamás HajnalVfB Stuttgart
  • 45+1'Yellow card · Marco HögerSchalke 04
  • 57'Goal · Kyriakos PapadopoulosSchalke 04 · 2-0
  • 80'Goal · Julian DraxlerSchalke 04 · 3-0
  • 87'Goal · Shinji OkazakiVfB Stuttgart · 3-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Schalke 04 4, draws 2, VfB Stuttgart 4.

Team news

Schalke 04 line-up (4-2-3-1)

Lars Unnerstall, Benedikt Höwedes, Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Atsuto Uchida, Joël Matip, Alexander Baumjohann, Marco Höger, Chinedu Obasi, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Raúl, Christian Fuchs

VfB Stuttgart line-up (4-3-3)

Sven Ulreich, Serdar Taşçı, Francisco Javier Rodríguez Pinedo, William Kvist, Zdravko Kuzmanović, Stefano Celozzi, Tamás Hajnal, Martin Harnik, Cacau, Pavel Pogrebnyak, Cristian Molinaro