Hannover 96 vs FC Wurzburger Kickers — 2. Bundesliga 2018
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 25+ matches
Hannover 9650%
FC Wurzburger Kickers25%✓ Correct in 51 of 100 matches — 6 more than always backing the home side
The model picks a winner (home or away) for each finished match using only pre-kickoff data, then checks it against the real result: 50.6% correct across 576,853 matches, vs 44.7% for always backing the home side.
Home picks 50.9% correct · Away picks 49.7% correct
Football matches only. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Expected goals in this match
What is xG?
Every shot is scored 0–1 by how likely it is to be a goal from that spot — a chance in the middle of the box ≈ 0.4, a long shot from a tight angle ≈ 0.03, a penalty ≈ 0.76. Add them up over a match and that is the xG.
The scoreline can lie: you can win 1-0 on a fluke while creating half the chances. xG shows who was really closer to scoring — and over a season it predicts results better than goals alone.
Hannover 96 creates 50% more chances
Season form · 119 home / 25 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Over52
- Under48
Close call
Both teams score
- Yes54
- No46
Both teams likely to score
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Hannover 96 ↓
Most likely 1–1 (12%) · grid covers 97% of scorelines
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Combos
Model probabilities, not odds. For information only.
How is this calculated?
Every number below comes from this match — nothing is made up.
Recent form of each side
Hannover 96 at home — creates 1.55, concedes 1.23 · 119 matches
FC Wurzburger Kickers away — creates 1.00, concedes 1.76 · 25 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Hannover 96 attack 1.55 + FC Wurzburger Kickers defence 1.76 → ÷2 → 1.66
FC Wurzburger Kickers attack 1.00 + Hannover 96 defence 1.23 → ÷2 → 1.11
Each side's attack is blended with the other's defence, then averaged.
Chance of every scoreline
From those two numbers a Poisson distribution gives the probability of each exact score — the grid shown above.
The answer to "why 50%?"
Hannover 96 at 50% is simply the biggest of the three — that is the pick.
What the model can't see
It reads only the stats of recent matches. It knows nothing about:
- injuries & suspensions
- the matchday lineup
- motivation — cup, relegation, a title race
- weather & pitch condition
- in-game coaching decisions
So 50% does not mean "Hannover 96 will win" — it means "on the available stats, this is the most likely result."
Statistical model based on expected goals (xG). For informational purposes only.
Player of the match
Match Events
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P = Played · W = Won · D = Drawn · L = Lost · GF = Goals for · GA = Goals against · GD = Goal difference · Pts = Points
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Statistics
Hannover 96 host FC Wurzburger Kickers on Thursday, 8 April 2021 at 16:30. The match is part of the 2. Bundesliga 2018/2019 season.
2. Bundesliga: Hannover 96 1–2 FC Wurzburger Kickers
FC Wurzburger Kickers beat Hannover 96 2-1 in 2. Bundesliga on April 8, 2021.
Goals: G. Haraguchi (47'), F. Ronstadt (58'), R. van La Parra (80').
Hannover 96 controlled possession (67%) and registered 11 shots to 14.
The match was played at HDI-Arena in Hannover.