VfL Wolfsburg 1-2 Nürnberg: result and report
Bundesliga · Saturday 12 March 2011
Result
VfL Wolfsburg 1-2 Nürnberg
Bundesliga · Saturday 12 March 2011, 14:30 UTC · half-time 1-1
VfL Wolfsburg 1-2 Nürnberg: match report
VfL Wolfsburg lost to Nürnberg 1-2 in the Bundesliga on Saturday 12 March 2011. The half-time score was 1-1.
Mario Mandžukić opened the scoring in the 23rd minute. VfL Wolfsburg's goal came from Mario Mandžukić (23'). Nürnberg scored through Philipp Wollscheid (45+1') and Per Nilsson (90+2').
Discipline: VfL Wolfsburg received 2 yellow cards; Nürnberg received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game VfL Wolfsburg were 15th on 26 points from 25 and Nürnberg 6th on 39 points from 25. VfL Wolfsburg went on to finish that season 15th with 38 points, and Nürnberg 6th with 47.
VfL Wolfsburg lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Nürnberg in a 4-1-4-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 VfL Wolfsburg wins, 3 draws and 4 for Nürnberg.
Going into the match VfL Wolfsburg's last five read L-W-L-L-L and Nürnberg's W-D-W-W-W.
Key events
- 20'Yellow card · Dieumerci Mbokani
- 23'Goal · Mario Mandžukić
- 34'Yellow card · Timothy Chandler
- 45+1'Goal · Philipp Wollscheid
- 58'Yellow card · Peter Pekarik
- 61'Yellow card · A. Wolf
- 67'Yellow card · Javier Pinola
- 90+2'Goal · Per Nilsson
Head-to-head
Team news
VfL Wolfsburg line-up (4-4-1-1)
Diego Benaglio, Makoto Hasebe, Peter Pekarík, Sascha Riether, Simon Kjær, Marcel Schäfer, Cícero, Jan Polak, Mario Mandžukić, Dieumerci Mbokani, Diego
Nürnberg expected line-up (4-1-4-1)
Raphael Schäfer, Andreas Wolf, Dennis Diekmeier, Andreas Ottl, Mike Frantz, İlkay Gündoğan, Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting, Albert Bunjaku, Javier Pinola