VfL Wolfsburg 2-1 Salzburg: result and report

Champions League · Tuesday 2 November 2021

Result

VfL Wolfsburg 2-1 Salzburg

Champions League · Tuesday 2 November 2021, 17:45 UTC · half-time 1-1

VfL Wolfsburg · Salzburg · Champions League predictions

VfL Wolfsburg 2-1 Salzburg: match report

VfL Wolfsburg defeated Salzburg 2-1 in the Champions League on Tuesday 2 November 2021. The half-time score was 1-1.

Ridle Baku opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. VfL Wolfsburg's goals came from Ridle Baku (3') and Lukas Nmecha (60'). Salzburg scored through Maximilian Wöber (30').

Discipline: VfL Wolfsburg received 3 yellow cards; Salzburg received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game VfL Wolfsburg were 54th on 2 points from 3 and Salzburg 9th on 13 points from 5. This fixture belongs to an earlier Champions League season and is kept for reference.

VfL Wolfsburg lined up in a 3-4-3 and Salzburg in a 4-3-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Maximilian Wöber of Salzburg (8.0), ahead of Koen Casteels (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 VfL Wolfsburg wins, 0 draws and 1 for Salzburg.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · Ridle BakuVfL Wolfsburg · 1-0
  • 28'Yellow card · Wout WeghorstVfL Wolfsburg
  • 30'Goal · Maximilian WöberSalzburg · 1-1
  • 60'Goal · Lukas NmechaVfL Wolfsburg · 2-1
  • 68'Yellow card · John Anthony BrooksVfL Wolfsburg
  • 83'Yellow card · Lukas NmechaVfL Wolfsburg
  • 87'Yellow card · Andreas UlmerSalzburg

Head-to-head

1 meetings: VfL Wolfsburg 0, draws 0, Salzburg 1.

Team news

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

Koen Casteels, Maxence Lacroix, Josuha Guilavogui, John Brooks, Ridle Baku, Aster Vranckx, Maximilian Arnold, Paulo Otávio, Lukas Nmecha, Wout Weghorst, Yannick Gerhardt

Salzburg line-up (4-3-1-2)

Philipp Köhn, Rasmus Nissen Kristensen, Jérôme Onguene, Maximilian Wöber, Andreas Ulmer, Nicolas Seiwald, Mohamed Camara, Luka Sucic, Brenden Aaronson, Karim Adeyemi, Noah Okafor