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Hannover 96 defeats Stuttgart 4-2
At its own stadium, Hannover 96 earned a neat 4-2 at the hands of VfB Stuttgart. With this win, Club's European opponent remains in sixth place in the Bundesliga, where it is joined by Bayer Leverkusen. Furthermore, the gap with 8th place Wolfsburg, grows to seven units.
Coach Mirko Slomka made three changes to the team that had beaten Club on Thursday. In the back, Chahed and Haggui came in for Cherundolo and Pogatetz, while up front, Didier Ya Konan came in for forward Abdellaoue.
Hannover played a solid game, and at half time it was 2-0, gols by Haggui and Diouf. Just after the break, Christian Pander killed the game with a third Hannover goal, and with fifteen minues on the clock Stindl even made it 4-0. Stuttgart was finally awake after that fourth goal, and first Harnik and then Okazaki still made it 4-2. Ibisevic came close to adding a third, but goalie Zieler had a fine save in store to deny him.
Hannover 96: Zieler – Chahed, Eggimann, Haggui, Pander (68’ Schulz) – Schlaudraff (75’ Rausch), Pinto, Schmiedebach, Stindl – Konan, Diouf (78’ Stoppelkamp).
Goals: 26’ Haggui (1-0), 33’ Diouf (2-0), 47’ Pander (3-0), 74’ Stindl (4-0), 76’ Harnik (4-1), 80’ Okazaki (4-2).

















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