VfL Wolfsburg 4-3 Schalke 04: result and report
Bundesliga · Friday 13 March 2009
Result
VfL Wolfsburg 4-3 Schalke 04
Bundesliga · Friday 13 March 2009, 19:30 UTC · half-time 2-1
VfL Wolfsburg 4-3 Schalke 04: match report
VfL Wolfsburg beat Schalke 04 4-3 in the Bundesliga on Friday 13 March 2009. It was 2-1 at half-time.
Heiko Westermann opened the scoring in the 9th minute. VfL Wolfsburg's goals came from Grafite (25', penalty), Edin Dzeko (44'), Grafite (74') and Grafite (84'). Schalke 04 scored through Heiko Westermann (9'), Jermaine Jones (76') and Kevin Kuranyi (90').
Discipline: VfL Wolfsburg received 2 yellow cards; Schalke 04 received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game VfL Wolfsburg were 4th on 42 points from 23 and Schalke 04 8th on 37 points from 23. VfL Wolfsburg went on to finish that season 1st with 69 points, and Schalke 04 8th with 50.
VfL Wolfsburg lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and Schalke 04 in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 VfL Wolfsburg win, 5 draws and 1 for Schalke 04.
Going into the match VfL Wolfsburg's last five read W-W-W-W-W and Schalke 04's W-W-D-L-W.
Key events
- 9'Goal · Heiko Westermann
- 25'Penalty goal · Grafite
- 44'Goal · Edin Dzeko
- 51'Yellow card · Peter Pekarik
- 52'Yellow card · Kevin Kuranyi
- 66'Yellow card · Danny Latza
- 74'Goal · Grafite
- 76'Goal · Jermaine Jones
- 80'Yellow card · Grafite
- 84'Goal · Grafite
- 90'Goal · Kevin Kuranyi
Head-to-head
Team news
VfL Wolfsburg line-up (4-3-1-2)
Diego Benaglio, Jan Simunek, Alexander Madlung, Peter Pekarík, Andrea Barzagli, Marcel Schäfer, Josué, Zvjezdan Misimović, Edin Džeko, Grafite, Christian Gentner
Schalke 04 line-up (4-2-3-1)
Mathias Schober, Heiko Westermann, Levan Kobiashvili, Tore André Flo, Benedikt Höwedes, Ivan Rakitić, Jermaine Jones, Kevin Kuranyi, Vicente Sánchez Bragunde, Jefferson Farfán, Mladen Krstajić