VfB Stuttgart 2-0 Werder Bremen: result and report

Bundesliga · Saturday 21 April 2018

Result

VfB Stuttgart 2-0 Werder Bremen

Bundesliga · Saturday 21 April 2018, 13:30 UTC · half-time 1-0

VfB Stuttgart · Werder Bremen · Bundesliga predictions

VfB Stuttgart 2-0 Werder Bremen: match report

VfB Stuttgart won against Werder Bremen 2-0 in the Bundesliga on Saturday 21 April 2018. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Christian Gentner opened the scoring in the 13th minute. VfB Stuttgart's goals came from Christian Gentner (13') and Berkay Özcan (90+1'). Werder Bremen did not score.

Discipline: VfB Stuttgart received 1 yellow card; Werder Bremen received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game VfB Stuttgart were 10th on 39 points from 30 and Werder Bremen 12th on 37 points from 30. VfB Stuttgart went on to finish that season 7th with 51 points, and Werder Bremen 11th with 42.

VfB Stuttgart lined up in a 4-4-2 and Werder Bremen in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Christian Gentner of VfB Stuttgart (8.3), ahead of Ron-Robert Zieler (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 VfB Stuttgart win, 5 draws and 4 for Werder Bremen.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 7'Yellow card · Florian KainzWerder Bremen
  • 13'Goal · Christian GentnerVfB Stuttgart · 1-0
  • 39'Yellow card · P. BargfredeWerder Bremen
  • 54'Yellow card · Daniel GinczekVfB Stuttgart
  • 90+1'Goal · Berkay ÖzcanVfB Stuttgart · 2-0

Head-to-head

10 meetings: VfB Stuttgart 1, draws 5, Werder Bremen 4.

Team news

VfB Stuttgart line-up (4-4-2)

Ron-Robert Zieler, Emiliano Insúa, Timo Baumgartl, Benjamin Pavard, Holger Badstuber, Dennis Aogo, Santiago Ascacíbar, Erik Thommy, Christian Gentner, Mario Gómez, Daniel Ginczek

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

Jiri Pavlenka, Milos Veljkovic, Niklas Moisander, Theodor Gebre Selassie, Marco Friedl, Florian Kainz, Jérôme Gondorf, Zoran Zekic, Maximilian Eggestein, Philipp Bargfrede, Ishak Belfodil