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Bundesliga Matchday 9 · 2026-27

Matchday 1 · Bundesliga 2025-26 · August 23, 2025

Goals only: this source has no shots, so the replay comes from each side's goals over the season.

Heidenheim 1–3 Wolfsburg: lucky or expected?

Wolfsburg beat Heidenheim 3–1, but the goals call it even: Wolfsburg win 4 of 10, Heidenheim 4, 2 end level. Rated on this season’s goals, Heidenheim were expected to score 1.7 here and Wolfsburg 1.7.

Full time

Goals
1. FC Heidenheim 1
VfL Wolfsburg 3

August 23, 2025

Luck index +51 Wolfsburg lucky · −51 Heidenheim

Our source has this match’s goals but not its shots, so it is replayed from what each side’s goals over the season say: both teams rated on every goal scored and conceded, and the match played again 4,000 times from those ratings. How often does this result come out? How the goals-only replay works

Ten replays. Heidenheim win 4, 2 end level, Wolfsburg win 4.

  1. 1 FCH 1 WOB 0
  2. 2 FCH 3 WOB 2
  3. 3 FCH 2 WOB 0
  4. 4 FCH 3 WOB 0
  5. 5 FCH 1 WOB 1
  6. 6 FCH 1 WOB 1
  7. 7 FCH 1 WOB 4
  8. 8 FCH 0 WOB 2
  9. 9 FCH 1 WOB 2
  10. 10 FCH 1 WOB 2

The goals

Heidenheim’s chance of winning

As low as 0% and as high as 57%. Numbers mark the goals, listed below.

Our in-game win probability: the score and the minutes left, with goals for the rest of the match at the league’s rates. A draw counts half, as in the replays. Shaded above the middle while Heidenheim was ahead in it, below while Wolfsburg was.
MinuteGoalScoreWin chance
1. 20' Andreas Skov Olsen (Wolfsburg) 0–1 +25% Wolfsburg
2. 29' Léo Scienza (Heidenheim) 1–1 +26% Heidenheim
3. 66' Mattias Svanberg (Wolfsburg) 1–2 +36% Wolfsburg
4. 87' Mohamed Amoura (Wolfsburg, penalty) 1–3 +3% Wolfsburg

Win chance: the scoring side’s chance of winning the moment before the goal against the moment after it, from the score and the minutes left. A draw counts half.

About these numbers

Scores and goals from openfootball (public domain), the newest also from OpenLigaDB (Open Database License). Neither has no shots, so there is no expected goals for this match and no finishing luck: the replay, the in-game win probability and the luck index are our own models, built from the season’s goals alone (methodology and validation). The luck index is how far the result was from what the goals say. Wolfsburg win 49% of replays (a draw counted as half).

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