VfB Stuttgart 3-1 Karlsruher SC: result and report

Bundesliga · Saturday 23 February 2008

Result

VfB Stuttgart 3-1 Karlsruher SC

Bundesliga · Saturday 23 February 2008, 14:30 UTC · half-time 2-0

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VfB Stuttgart 3-1 Karlsruher SC: match report

VfB Stuttgart beat Karlsruher SC 3-1 in the Bundesliga on Saturday 23 February 2008. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Mario Gómez opened the scoring in the 5th minute. VfB Stuttgart's goals came from Mario Gómez (5'), R. Hilbert (25') and Cacau (88'). Karlsruher SC scored through Tamás Hajnal (81').

Discipline: VfB Stuttgart received 1 yellow card; Karlsruher SC received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game VfB Stuttgart were 10th on 28 points from 20 and Karlsruher SC 6th on 33 points from 20. VfB Stuttgart went on to finish that season 6th with 52 points, and Karlsruher SC 11th with 43.

VfB Stuttgart lined up in a 4-1-3-2 and Karlsruher SC in a 4-2-3-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 VfB Stuttgart wins, 0 draws and 1 for Karlsruher SC.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 5'Goal · Mario GómezVfB Stuttgart · 1-0
  • 25'Goal · R. HilbertVfB Stuttgart · 2-0
  • 31'Yellow card · Yildiray BasturkVfB Stuttgart
  • 81'Goal · Tamás HajnalKarlsruher SC · 2-1
  • 83'Yellow card · Tamás HajnalKarlsruher SC
  • 88'Goal · CacauVfB Stuttgart · 3-1

Head-to-head

1 meetings: VfB Stuttgart 0, draws 0, Karlsruher SC 1.

Team news

VfB Stuttgart expected line-up (4-1-3-2)

Raphael Schäfer, Roberto Hilbert, Serdar Taşçı, Fernando Meira, Ricardo Osorio, Sami Khedira, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Pavel Pardo Segura, Yildiray Basturk, Mario Gómez, Cacau

Karlsruher SC expected line-up (4-2-3-1)

Jean-François Kornetzky, Maik Franz, Mario Eggimann, Stefan Buck, Andreas Görlitz, Tamás Hajnal, Massimilian Porcello, Michael Mutzel, Sebastian Freis, Christian Timm, Aleksandre Iashvili