- Home form: Hannover have gone unbeaten in 3 home games across all competitions (W1, D2).
- Away form: Wolfsburg have won their last away match.
- Head-to-head: Wolfsburg have split the last two head-to-heads 1-1 and failed to win on their last trip to Hannover.
Hannover’s heart is in the right place
Hannover 96 find themselves in 16th place in the 2. Bundesliga 2026-2027 after picking up 0 points from 1 game and VfL Wolfsburg arrive on Sunday having picked up 1 point from their opening 1 game to sit in 12th place. Both sides have had a different record on home and on the road this year, but Wolfsburg have an edge with their away win.
Christian Titz will bring his patient, possession-first, positional style to this game. Lars Gindorf has shown the way with 1 assist in 1 2. Bundesliga 2026/2027 match so far, pulling the strings in the holes between the lines, and Maurice Neubauer, who has scored 1 goal in 1 2. Bundesliga 2026/2027 game so far, is their most dangerous player.
Hannover lost 3-1 away to FC Energie Cottbus in the 2. Bundesliga 2026-2027 opener in a rough start to the season, but they should be able to come back stronger this time around. They beat FC Zwolle 3-0 at home in their pre-season friendly, which followed a 3-3 draw with FC Nurnberg at home in the 2. Bundesliga 2025/2026 and that was clear evidence that they can explode in waves when they get the ball into the right areas.
Wolfsburg’s new look
Recent results:
VfL Wolfsburg enter this matchup off the back of a 0-0 home draw with FC Kaiserslautern in the 2. Bundesliga 2026-2027 and a 3-1 home victory over Telstar in a friendly.
Tactics and odds:
Tobias Strobl's new-look Wolfsburg are being shaped around a more compact, high-energy pressing game and quicker transitions and they will attempt to exploit Hannover's slower tempo. It is impossible to call this one as Hannover have had a mixed form across all of their matches (W1, D3, L1) and so have Wolfsburg (W2, D1, L2), but the odds suggest that Wolfsburg are likely to just shade it. Wolfsburg are 2.45 and Hannover 2.55, so this looks like a very even game to us and not a runaway.
Wolfsburg may just pinch this one, but Hannover's home form could keep it on the edge of a knife.
- It should be a fascinating clash of styles with Hannover attempting to play the ball, and Wolfsburg attempting to nick it and play fast paced.
- Both sides have had their ups and downs in the attacking department and a game with some goals is on the cards.
- Over 2.5 goals at 1.5 and Both Teams To Score Yes at 1.37 are our selections and the last two head-to-heads were split 1-1 with no draws.
