VfL Wolfsburg 1-0 FC Köln: result and report

Bundesliga · Saturday 21 January 2012

Result

VfL Wolfsburg 1-0 FC Köln

Bundesliga · Saturday 21 January 2012, 14:30 UTC · half-time 0-0

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VfL Wolfsburg 1-0 FC Köln: match report

VfL Wolfsburg won against FC Köln 1-0 in the Bundesliga on Saturday 21 January 2012. The half-time score was 0-0.

The only goal came from Sebastian Polter of VfL Wolfsburg in the 78th minute.

Discipline: VfL Wolfsburg received 1 yellow card; FC Köln received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game VfL Wolfsburg were 12th on 20 points from 17 and FC Köln 10th on 21 points from 17. VfL Wolfsburg went on to finish that season 8th with 44 points, and FC Köln 17th with 30.

VfL Wolfsburg lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and FC Köln in a 4-4-1-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 VfL Wolfsburg wins, 3 draws and 2 for FC Köln.

Going into the match VfL Wolfsburg's last five read W-L-D-L-W and FC Köln's L-D-W-D-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 21'Yellow card · Felipe LopesVfL Wolfsburg
  • 65'Yellow card · Mato JajaloFC Köln
  • 78'Goal · Sebastian PolterVfL Wolfsburg · 1-0
  • 81'Yellow card · Christian EichnerFC Köln

Head-to-head

9 meetings: VfL Wolfsburg 4, draws 3, FC Köln 2.

Team news

VfL Wolfsburg line-up (4-2-3-1)

Diego Benaglio, Felipe Lopes, Vieirinha, Alexander Madlung, Ricardo Rodríguez, Marcel Schäfer, Koo Ja-Cheol, Christian Träsch, Petr Jiráček, Ashkan Dejagah, Jan Polak

FC Köln expected line-up (4-4-1-1)

Michael Rensing, Pedro Geromel, Sascha Riether, Ammar Jemal, Henrique Sereno, Mišo Brečko, Mato Jajalo, Christian Clemens, Martin Lanig, Lukas Podolski, Sławomir Peszko