VfB Stuttgart 4-1 Werder Bremen: result and report

Bundesliga · Saturday 4 October 2008

Result

VfB Stuttgart 4-1 Werder Bremen

Bundesliga · Saturday 4 October 2008, 13:30 UTC · half-time 2-0

VfB Stuttgart · Werder Bremen · Bundesliga predictions

VfB Stuttgart 4-1 Werder Bremen: match report

VfB Stuttgart beat Werder Bremen 4-1 in the Bundesliga on Saturday 4 October 2008. The half-time score was 2-0.

Sami Khedira opened the scoring in the 18th minute. VfB Stuttgart's goals came from Sami Khedira (18'), Christian Träsch (29'), R. Hilbert (63') and Martin Lanig (88'). Werder Bremen scored through Diego (65').

Discipline: VfB Stuttgart received 3 yellow cards; Werder Bremen received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game VfB Stuttgart were 7th on 10 points from 6 and Werder Bremen 3rd on 11 points from 6. VfB Stuttgart went on to finish that season 3rd with 64 points, and Werder Bremen 10th with 45.

VfB Stuttgart lined up in a 3-4-3 and Werder Bremen in a 4-1-3-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 VfB Stuttgart wins, 2 draws and 1 for Werder Bremen.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 18'Goal · Sami KhediraVfB Stuttgart · 1-0
  • 22'Yellow card · Mario GómezVfB Stuttgart
  • 29'Goal · Christian TräschVfB Stuttgart · 2-0
  • 54'Yellow card · Arthur BokaVfB Stuttgart
  • 55'Yellow card · Clemens FritzWerder Bremen
  • 63'Goal · R. HilbertVfB Stuttgart · 3-0
  • 65'Goal · DiegoWerder Bremen · 3-1
  • 75'Yellow card · DiegoWerder Bremen
  • 77'Yellow card · Jens LehmannVfB Stuttgart
  • 86'Yellow card · Petri PasanenWerder Bremen
  • 88'Goal · Martin LanigVfB Stuttgart · 4-1
  • 88'Yellow card · Aaron HuntWerder Bremen

Head-to-head

6 meetings: VfB Stuttgart 3, draws 2, Werder Bremen 1.

Team news

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

Jens Lehmann, Matthieu Delpierre, Arthur Boka, Serdar Taşçı, Ricardo Osorio, Roberto Hilbert, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Pavel Pardo Segura, Jan Simák, Mario Gómez, Ciprian Marica

Werder Bremen line-up (4-1-3-2)

Tim Wiese, Petri Pasanen, Naldo, Sebastian Prödl, Frank Baumann, Clemens Fritz, Mesut Özil, Markus Rosenberg, Claudio Pizarro, Diego, Torsten Frings