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Commentary

5¹ ZUBER made space on the right and pulled the ball to KARAZOR who clipped the ball wide. 7¹ MAVROPANOS was put clear by ZUBER and he dummied ARÉOLA but thrust his shot inches over. 9¹ KARAZOR galloped through the Spartak defence but shot straight at ARÉOLA. 10¹ A great save prevented MANU SÁNCHEZ from scoring a great goal. 11¹ KARAZOR ran onto a delightful ball from MANGALA but fired his shot wide of the goal. 22¹ EMBOLO shot wide. 23¹ A pin-point pass found EMBOLO and his looping shot raced narrowly over. 25¹ GOAL!! After being forced wide MAVROPANOS managed to hammer the ball in from the tightest of angles. (1-0 VfB Stuttgart) 27¹ GOAL!! With his back to goal EMBOLO wrong-footed the defence and rifled the ball past NICOLAS. (1-1) 28¹ GOAL!! A cross from the right was nodded down by KARAZOR for CHOUPO-MOTING to score. (2-1 VfB Stuttgart) 30¹ The stunned 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from ENDO fell just wide. 31¹ HARALDSSON blasted a looping shot wide from long range. 35¹ The 'keeper saved a beautiful effort from EMBOLO. 36¹ A mix up in the Spartak defence enabled ITO to hit the ball wide. 1² ZAPATA beat a number of VfB Stuttgart players and fired a shot wide. 12² HARALDSSON beat MANGALA and drilled the ball to PASALIC who toe-poked his shot wide. 13² GOAL!! A wonderful piece of skill from MOSES gave EMBOLO space on the left and PASALIC stabbed in his accurate pass. (2-2) 15² PEREA's shot beat the Spartak 'keeper but rebounded off the Spartak woodwork. 27² A corner bobbled toward KARAZOR who flicked an effort inches over. 29² A penalty box meleé resulted in ZUBER tapping a low shot over. 31² A weak strike from ZUBER bounced agonisingly wide. 34² GOAL!! A deep corner left the Spartak 'keeper struggling and KARAZOR stabbed the ball into the net. (3-2 VfB Stuttgart) 40² A good ball from PASALIC on the left bobbled toward EMBOLO who scuffed his shot just beyond the near post. 42² The referee books DJIMSITI for a cynical challenge. 43² KARAZOR chipped the ball to MANGALA who headed it wide.

VfB Stuttgart   League position: 11 Home league form: LWWL Overall league form: WLLWLWWL Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Moritz NICOLAS 6  1 6½ Alphonse ARÉOLA Pablo MAFFEO 6½ 2 7  Bryan REYNOLDS Hiroki ITO 7  3 7  MANU SÁNCHEZ Wataru ENDO 7  4 7½ Mario PASALIC Konstantinos MAVROPANOS 7  5 7  Berat DJIMSITI(c) Marc-Oliver KEMPF 7  6 6½ Martin VITÍK Orel MANGALA 7  7 6½ Victor MOSES Steven ZUBER 6½ 8 6  Hákon HARALDSSON (c,p)Eric CHOUPO-MOTING 7  9 6½ Breel-Donald EMBOLO(p) (f)Atakan KARAZOR 8  10 6½ Duván ZAPATA(f) Juan PEREA 6½ 11 6  LEE Kang-in Manager Lukas ULLRICH    12    Jan BEDNAREK Ron-Robert ZIELER    13    Juan MUSSO Badredine BOUANANI    14    NICO Zakaria LABYAD    15    Eric BAILLY Julian EITSCHBERGER    16 7½ Jordan AMAVI

Spartak   League position: 17 Away league form: LLLX Overall league form: WWLLLXXO Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

VfB Stuttgart 3 Spartak 2 (Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 39,095, Stadium: Mercedes-Benz-Arena, Referee: Paolo Dondarini 7½) Mavropanos 25¹, Choupo-Moting 28¹, Karazor 34² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Embolo 27¹, Pasalic 13²   ReynoldsóAmavi 18²       Djimsiti 42² 2 1 8 11 2 1 5 4 8 7 13 11 2 2 49% 51% ¶ Man of the match: Atakan Karazor ¶