Hannover 96 will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 3 points behind Holstein Kiel.
Hannover 96 and Holstein Kiel should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Hannover 96 form and stats
When playing at home in the 2. Bundesliga, Hannover 96, who have the fewest conceded goals (1) at home in 2. Bundesliga, have managed 3 wins, 1 draw and suffered 0 defeats from 4 games.
A strong away win for Hannover against Würzburger Kickers the last match. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Greuther Furth (1-4).
The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Hannover handle that role? We have found nine games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are five wins, two draws and two defeats.
With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (9 in 4 games), Hannover's attacking play is working. As for guarding their own goal, Hannover have only let in 1 goal at home.
Holstein Kiel form and stats
Holstein Kiel, who have the fewest conceded goals (1) away in 2. Bundesliga, are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the 2. Bundesliga, having played 3 games and collected 5 points (1 win, 2 draws and 0 losses). Holstein have had a generous will to share for some time now, running a streak of three draws in a row.
Holstein delivered a 2-2 draw playing at home against Heidenheim (placed 10th) in their previous match; a 2. Bundesliga game. Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Hamburger SV.
Drawing 2-2 against Heidenheim after 90 minutes last time out was very disappointing after leading the match 2-0. Their manager O. Werner needs to evaluate why the team couldn't defend their result.
We have checked recent matches where Holstein have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those six games were two victories, one draw and three defeats.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Holstein have scored 3 goals in 3 league games away. Holstein are tighter than a frog's bottom, as only 1 away goal have been conceded so far.
Head 2 Head
Hannover 96-Holstein Kiel H2H statistics last two meetings regardless of arena: Hannover 96 two wins, Holstein Kiel zero wins, zero draws. two of these two matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  A. Mühling 4 goals |   L. Maina 2 goals |  M. Ducksch 2 goals |
Hannover 96 missing players
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| Hannover 96 | Holstein Kiel | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | 9 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| 8 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 88% | 75% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 67% | 88% |
| 62% | 75% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 75% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 38% |
| 25% | 25% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 25% | 25% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 38% | 25% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 33% | 62% |
| 50% | 75% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 67% | 38% |
| 25% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 12% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.6 | 1.8 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 4 | 2.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 92 | 56 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 6 | 27 | 83 |
| 30 | 25 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 1 | 6 | 29 |
| 40% | 36% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 100% | 50% | 34% |
- Hannover 96 has the fewest conceded goals (1) at home in 2. Bundesliga
- Hannover 96 has the fewest scored goals in the first half (1) in 2. Bundesliga
- Hannover 96 has the the best goal difference (+8) at home in 2. Bundesliga
- Hannover 96 have not yet lost a game at home.
- Hannover 96 have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Hannover 96 have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Holstein Kiel have scored away.
- Holstein Kiel has the fewest conceded goals (1) away in 2. Bundesliga
- Holstein Kiel have not yet lost a game away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Hamburger SV | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 17 |
| 2 | Paderborn | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 14 |
| 3 | Osnabruck | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 13 |
| 4 | Holstein Kiel | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | Greuther Furth | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 12 |
| 6 | Bochum | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 11 |
| 7 | Fortuna Dusseldorf | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | -2 | 11 |
| 8 | Karlsruher SC | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 10 |
| 9 | Hannover 96 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| 10 | Heidenheim | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 9 |
| 11 | Jahn Regensburg | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 9 |
| 12 | Erzgebirge Aue | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -1 | 9 |
| 13 | Darmstadt 98 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 9 | -3 | 9 |
| 14 | Sandhausen | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | -4 | 8 |
| 15 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 11 | -8 | 8 |
| 16 | Nurnberg | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 7 |
| 17 | St. Pauli | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | -4 | 7 |
| 18 | Würzburger Kickers | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -12 | 1 |
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