VfL Wolfsburg 3-1 Werder Bremen: result and report

Bundesliga · Saturday 28 April 2012

Result

VfL Wolfsburg 3-1 Werder Bremen

Bundesliga · Saturday 28 April 2012, 13:30 UTC · half-time 1-1

VfL Wolfsburg · Werder Bremen · Bundesliga predictions

VfL Wolfsburg 3-1 Werder Bremen: match report

VfL Wolfsburg defeated Werder Bremen 3-1 in the Bundesliga on Saturday 28 April 2012. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Hasan Salihamidzic opened the scoring in the 40th minute. VfL Wolfsburg's goals came from Hasan Salihamidzic (40'), Patrick Helmes (66') and Patrick Helmes (89'). Werder Bremen scored through Markus Rosenberg (45+1').

Discipline: VfL Wolfsburg received 2 yellow cards; Werder Bremen received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game VfL Wolfsburg were 10th on 41 points from 32 and Werder Bremen 8th on 42 points from 32. VfL Wolfsburg went on to finish that season 8th with 44 points, and Werder Bremen 9th with 42.

VfL Wolfsburg lined up in a 4-4-2 and Werder Bremen in a 4-1-3-2.

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

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 40'Goal · Hasan SalihamidzicVfL Wolfsburg · 1-0
  • 42'Yellow card · Aleksandar StevanovicWerder Bremen
  • 45+1'Goal · Markus RosenbergWerder Bremen · 1-1
  • 62'Yellow card · Sokratis PapastathopoulosWerder Bremen
  • 66'Goal · Patrick HelmesVfL Wolfsburg · 2-1
  • 79'Yellow card · Hasan SalihamidzicVfL Wolfsburg
  • 84'Yellow card · JosuéVfL Wolfsburg
  • 86'Yellow card · Markus RosenbergWerder Bremen
  • 89'Goal · Patrick HelmesVfL Wolfsburg · 3-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: VfL Wolfsburg 3, draws 3, Werder Bremen 4.

Team news

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

Diego Benaglio, Vieirinha, Alexander Madlung, Marco Russ, Ricardo Rodríguez, Marcel Schäfer, Josué, Ashkan Dejagah, Jan Polak, Mario Mandžukić, Patrick Helmes

Werder Bremen line-up (4-1-3-2)

Tim Wiese, Naldo, Lukas Schmitz, Sokratis, Clemens Fritz, Aaron Hunt, Tom Trybull, Aleksandar Stevanovic, Markus Rosenberg, Claudio Pizarro, Zlatko Junuzović