2. Bundesliga · Germany · Regular Season - 2

Hannover 96–VfL Wolfsburg

0–1

HT 0–0

Kick-off: Sunday, 16 August 2026 at 11:30
Status: Match Finished
Venue: Heinz-von-Heiden-Arena, Hannover

What the model said, and what happened

Incorrect — we gave this result 22%

This verdict goes into the public record unchanged; we do not filter out the ones we get wrong. The model's track record

Goals and red cards

87'VfL WolfsburgF. Reese (penalty)

Match statistics

Match statistics
Hannover 96		VfL Wolfsburg
14	Shots	18
2	Shots on target	7
9	Shots inside the box	7
6	Goalkeeper saves	2
8	Corners	6
4	Offsides	1
52%	Possession	48%
465	Passes	437
371	Accurate passes

What we expected, and what happened

Shots Hannover 96 14 · VfL Wolfsburg 18; on target 2 and 7.

Referee

Timo Gansloweit, Germany→

4.80

yellows per match

0.40

reds per match

matches of data

5 matches is a small sample — these averages are noisy and should not be read as a tendency.

Model prediction

No probability is published for this match.

One of the teams has only 1 matches in this league (at least 10 are required). A percentage produced from thin data is a guess dressed as certainty — we don't show it.

9	Fouls	9

1	Yellow cards	2

0	Red cards	0

Week 2 of the season. This prediction was computed from previous seasons. Summer transfers, budget changes and squad rebuilds aren't in the ratings yet — the model can only see that a team has been rebuilt once new results come in.

We measured this: the bias is only pronounced in the opening week. In this week the model's overall accuracy does not separate from the rest of the season — that is, we found no measurable flaw. The one tendency across all opening weeks is that home wins are called slightly too often (said 43.0%, got 41.9%; n=583).

This sample is small and not statistically established, which is why we do not correct the model for it. The correction we tried (pulling probabilities toward the league average) didn't win on holdout, so it wasn't added. Read opening-week predictions with a little more caution.