UEFA Cup

FT Thursday, October 2, 2008
VfL Wolfsburg DWWWL 1
–
Rapid Bucuresti DDDDL 1
2nd Leg - VfL Wolfsburg win 2-1 on aggregate · Giulesti Stadium · 7,000 att.

Head to Head

WOB leads series 1-0

Lineups

RBUC

  1. 99AndradeG
  2. 24Vasile MafteiD
  3. 3Manuel Ricardo FernandesD
  4. 23Marius ConstantinD
  5. 19Vladimir BozovicD
  6. 8Daniel BarioniM
  7. 15Costin LazarM
  8. 30Juliano Goncalves SpadacioM
  9. 11Pierre BoyaF
  10. 87Mejolaro Claudio PitbullF

Substitutes

  1. 20Andrei MarinescuG
  2. 14Danut PerjaD
  3. 18Nicolae GrigoreM
  4. 17Andrade Joao PauloF
  5. 7Carlos CesinhaF
  6. 10Julio César da SilvaF
  7. 21Radomir DjalovicF

WOB

  1. 1Diego BenaglioG
  2. 43Andrea BarzagliD
  3. 4Marcel SchäferD
  4. 5Ricardo CostaD
  5. 7JosuéM
  6. 25Christian GentnerM
  7. 13Makoto HasebeM
  8. 20Sascha RietherM
  9. 23Libano Batista Edinaldo GrafiteF
  10. 9Edin DzekoF
  11. 10Zvjezdan MisimovicF

Substitutes

  1. 12Andre LenzG
  2. 2Cristian ZaccardoD
  3. 3Oliveira da Silva Rodrigo AlvimD
  4. 17Alexander MadlungD
  5. 18Jacek KrzynowekM
  6. 16Mahir SaglikF
  7. 24Ashkan DejagahF

Timeline

  1. 15' Goal!! Libano Batista Edinaldo Grafite hits a very good right footed shot to the lower left corner from the right penalty area (aprox. 12 yards) and scores!! VfL Wolfsburg now leads 1 - 0
  2. 33' Sascha Riether is awarded a yellow card. Reason: unsporting behaviour
  3. 46' Rapid Bucuresti makes a sub: Nicolae Grigore enters for Marius Constantin. Reason: Tactical
  4. 62' Rapid Bucuresti makes a sub: Andrade Joao Paulo enters for Juliano Goncalves Spadacio. Reason: Tactical
  5. 63' VfL Wolfsburg makes a sub: Ashkan Dejagah enters for Christian Gentner. Reason: Tactical
  6. 70' Goal!! Vasile Maftei hits a very good right footed shot to the lower right corner from the left penalty area (aprox. 12 yards) and scores!! The game is now tied at 1
  7. 72' Rapid Bucuresti makes a sub: Da Silva Julio Cesar enters for Vasile Maftei. Reason: Tactical
  8. 76' Manuel Ricardo Fernandes is awarded a yellow card. Reason: unsporting behaviour
  9. 81' Mejolaro Claudio Pitbull is awarded a yellow card. Reason: unsporting behaviour
  10. 85' Marcel Schafer is awarded a yellow card. Reason: unsporting behaviour
  11. 87' Makoto Hasebe is awarded a yellow card. Reason: unsporting behaviour
  12. 87' VfL Wolfsburg makes a sub: Alexander Madlung enters for Zvjezdan Misimovic. Reason: Tactical
  13. 90' End of the game
  14. 90'+1' VfL Wolfsburg makes a sub: Cristian Zaccardo enters for Makoto Hasebe. Reason: Tactical

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