Hannover vs Bochum — 2. Bundesliga result and pre-match forecast, Sunday, 20 September 2026

2. Bundesliga·Sunday, 20 September 2026

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Metis pre-match forecast

Market-anchored distribution

Frozen as published · 3.1 h before kick-off. Never re-computed after the match.

Hannover

52%

pick · result

Draw

24%

Bochum

24%

Final score

2–1

Top pick landed

Metis gave a Hannover win 52.2% before kick-off, and its most likely result was a Hannover win. Expected goals 1.91–1.25 against 2–1 actual.

Forecast against the result

Over 2.5 goals61%3 scored
Both teams score62%yes
Hannover clean sheet29%no
Bochum clean sheet15%no
Hannover score 2+57%yes
Bochum score 2+35%no

How this forecast scored

Ranked probability score0.1430
1X2 Brier score0.3429
Probability on the result52.2%

Both scores are losses: lower is better, 0 is a forecast that put all of its probability on what happened. A single fixture says nothing on its own — the league's running record is on its league page, and the model is measured against the Pinnacle opening price in the methodology.

Most likely scores before kick-off: 1–1 (10.9%), 2–1 (9.8%), 2–0 (7.8%). It finished 2–1 — one of them.

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Hannover

9 AugAvs Cottbus1–3L
16 AugHvs Wolfsburg0–1L
30 AugAvs Darmstadt1–0W
4 SeptHvs Karlsruhe2–2D
11 SeptAvs Nurnberg1–2L

Bochum

7 AugHvs Hertha0–1L
14 AugAvs Braunschweig1–0W
28 AugHvs Osnabruck0–1L
5 SeptAvs Dresden2–1W
12 SeptHvs Greuther Furth1–1D

Head to head

No previous meetings in the Metis results archive for this competition.

Model context

StatHannover
(Home · 5 matches)
Bochum
(Away · 5 matches)
BTTS rate80.0%60.0%
Over 2.5 rate60.0%60.0%
Clean sheet0.0%20.0%
Avg goals2.602.40

Home stats use Hannover's home record; away stats use Bochum's away record this season. These are completed-match rates over the samples shown above, not model probabilities — early in a season a handful of matches produces 0% and 100% readings.