VfL Wolfsburg 3-2 Bayer 04 Leverkusen: result and report

Bundesliga · Saturday 10 March 2012

Result

VfL Wolfsburg 3-2 Bayer 04 Leverkusen

Bundesliga · Saturday 10 March 2012, 14:30 UTC · half-time 2-1

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VfL Wolfsburg 3-2 Bayer 04 Leverkusen: match report

VfL Wolfsburg defeated Bayer 04 Leverkusen 3-2 in the Bundesliga on Saturday 10 March 2012. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Stefan Kießling opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. VfL Wolfsburg's goals came from Patrick Helmes (33'), A. Dejagah (45') and an own goal by Michal Kadlec (61'). Bayer 04 Leverkusen scored through Stefan Kießling (3') and Eren Derdiyok (90+1').

Discipline: VfL Wolfsburg received 5 yellow cards; Bayer 04 Leverkusen received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game VfL Wolfsburg were 11th on 28 points from 24 and Bayer 04 Leverkusen 5th on 40 points from 24. VfL Wolfsburg went on to finish that season 8th with 44 points, and Bayer 04 Leverkusen 5th with 54.

VfL Wolfsburg lined up in a 4-4-2 and Bayer 04 Leverkusen in a 4-3-2-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 VfL Wolfsburg wins, 1 draw and 7 for Bayer 04 Leverkusen.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · Stefan KießlingBayer 04 Leverkusen · 0-1
  • 33'Goal · Patrick HelmesVfL Wolfsburg · 1-1
  • 45'Goal · A. DejagahVfL Wolfsburg · 2-1
  • 45+2'Yellow card · Marcel SchäferVfL Wolfsburg
  • 50'Yellow card · Patrick HelmesVfL Wolfsburg
  • 61'Own goal · Michal KadlecVfL Wolfsburg · 3-1
  • 74'Yellow card · Marco RussVfL Wolfsburg
  • 75'Yellow card · Lars BenderBayer 04 Leverkusen
  • 87'Yellow card · A. DejagahVfL Wolfsburg
  • 90'Yellow card · Felipe LopesVfL Wolfsburg
  • 90+1'Goal · Eren DerdiyokBayer 04 Leverkusen · 3-2

Head-to-head

10 meetings: VfL Wolfsburg 2, draws 1, Bayer 04 Leverkusen 7.

Team news

VfL Wolfsburg line-up (4-4-2)

Diego Benaglio, Felipe Lopes, Makoto Hasebe, Marco Russ, Ricardo Rodríguez, Marcel Schäfer, Christian Träsch, Ashkan Dejagah, Jan Polak, Mario Mandžukić, Patrick Helmes

Bayer 04 Leverkusen line-up (4-3-2-1)

Bernd Leno, Daniel Schwaab, Ömer Toprak, Michal Kadlec, Stefan Reinartz, Simon Rolfes, Lars Bender, Andre Schürrle, Renato Augusto, Gonzalo Castro, Stefan Kießling