Werder Bremen 0-1 Nürnberg: result and report

Bundesliga · Saturday 25 February 2012

Result

Werder Bremen 0-1 Nürnberg

Bundesliga · Saturday 25 February 2012, 17:30 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Werder Bremen 0-1 Nürnberg: match report

Werder Bremen lost to Nürnberg 0-1 in the Bundesliga on Saturday 25 February 2012. The half-time score was 0-0.

The only goal came from Alexander Esswein of Nürnberg in the 65th minute.

Discipline: Werder Bremen received 3 yellow cards; Nürnberg received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Werder Bremen were 6th on 36 points from 22 and Nürnberg 13th on 25 points from 22. Werder Bremen went on to finish that season 9th with 42 points, and Nürnberg 10th with 42.

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

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Werder Bremen wins, 2 draws and 2 for Nürnberg.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 5'Yellow card · Hanno BalitschNürnberg
  • 19'Yellow card · Zlatko JunuzovićWerder Bremen
  • 65'Goal · Alexander EssweinNürnberg · 0-1
  • 70'Yellow card · Markus FeulnerNürnberg
  • 75'Yellow card · Clemens FritzWerder Bremen
  • 90+4'Yellow card · Sokratis PapastathopoulosWerder Bremen
  • 90+4'Yellow card · Raphael SchaferNürnberg

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Werder Bremen 6, draws 2, Nürnberg 2.

Team news

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

Tim Wiese, François Affolter, Sokratis, Florian Hartherz, Clemens Fritz, Tom Trybull, Philipp Bargfrede, Markus Rosenberg, Claudio Pizarro, Marko Marin, Zlatko Junuzović

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