Wolfsburg vs Darmstadt — 2. Bundesliga result and pre-match forecast, Friday, 18 September 2026

2. Bundesliga·Friday, 18 September 2026

5 – 1

Metis pre-match forecast

Market-anchored distribution

Frozen as published · 56.1 h before kick-off. Never re-computed after the match.

Wolfsburg

61%

pick · result

Draw

20%

Darmstadt

19%

Final score

5–1

Top pick landed

Metis gave a Wolfsburg win 60.9% before kick-off, and its most likely result was a Wolfsburg win. Expected goals 2.05–1.20 against 5–1 actual.

Forecast against the result

Over 2.5 goals64%6 scored
Both teams score63%yes
Wolfsburg clean sheet30%no
Darmstadt clean sheet12%no
Wolfsburg score 2+63%yes
Darmstadt score 2+33%no

How this forecast scored

Ranked probability score0.0939
1X2 Brier score0.2295
Probability on the result60.9%

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: 2–1 (12.3%), 1–1 (9.2%), 2–0 (8.7%). It finished 5–1.

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Wolfsburg

8 AugHvs Kaiserslautern0–0D
16 AugAvs Hannover1–0W
29 AugAvs Karlsruhe5–2W
5 SeptHvs Cottbus4–4D
12 SeptAvs St Pauli0–1L

Darmstadt

8 AugHvs Holstein Kiel2–2D
16 AugAvs Dresden0–1L
30 AugHvs Hannover0–1L
5 SeptAvs Kaiserslautern0–3L
11 SeptHvs Bielefeld2–1W

Head to head

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

Model context

StatWolfsburg
(Home · 5 matches)
Darmstadt
(Away · 4 matches)
BTTS rate60.0%25.0%
Over 2.5 rate60.0%75.0%
Clean sheet40.0%0.0%
Avg goals4.003.50

Home stats use Wolfsburg's home record; away stats use Darmstadt'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.