VfB Stuttgart 3-1 TSG Hoffenheim: result and report
Bundesliga · Saturday 19 December 2009
Result
VfB Stuttgart 3-1 TSG Hoffenheim
Bundesliga · Saturday 19 December 2009, 17:30 UTC · half-time 1-1
VfB Stuttgart 3-1 TSG Hoffenheim: match report
VfB Stuttgart defeated TSG Hoffenheim 3-1 in the Bundesliga on Saturday 19 December 2009. The half-time score was 1-1.
Ciprian Marica opened the scoring in the 32nd minute. VfB Stuttgart's goals came from Ciprian Marica (32', penalty), Cacau (68') and Sami Khedira (82'). TSG Hoffenheim scored through Maicosuel (44').
Discipline: VfB Stuttgart received 3 yellow cards; TSG Hoffenheim received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game VfB Stuttgart were 16th on 13 points from 16 and TSG Hoffenheim 7th on 25 points from 16. VfB Stuttgart went on to finish that season 6th with 55 points, and TSG Hoffenheim 11th with 42.
VfB Stuttgart lined up in a 4-4-2 and TSG Hoffenheim in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 VfB Stuttgart wins, 2 draws and 0 for TSG Hoffenheim.
Going into the match VfB Stuttgart's last five read D-D-L-D-D and TSG Hoffenheim's D-D-L-W-L.
Key events
- 32'Penalty goal · Ciprian Marica
- 40'Yellow card · Luiz Gustavo
- 43'Yellow card · Matthieu Delpierre
- 44'Goal · Maicosuel
- 52'Second yellow · Luiz Gustavo
- 60'Yellow card · Ciprian Marica
- 65'Yellow card · T. Gebhart
- 68'Goal · Cacau
- 82'Goal · Sami Khedira
- 87'Yellow card · Chinedu Obasi
Head-to-head
Team news
VfB Stuttgart line-up (4-4-2)
Sven Ulreich, Serdar Taşçı, Arthur Boka, Matthieu Delpierre, Timo Gebhart, Alexander Hleb, Stefano Celozzi, Sami Khedira, Christian Träsch, Ciprian Marica, Pavel Pogrebnyak
TSG Hoffenheim expected line-up (4-4-2)
Timo Hildebrand, Marvin Compper, Sejad Salihovic, Carlos Eduardo, Luiz Gustavo, Vedad Ibišević, Chinedu Obasi, Demba Ba, Andreas Beck, Andreas Ibertsberger, Josip Simunic