Top 10 Opta Facts for the match against VfL Wolfsburg: 

• Wolfsburg have won the last 5 Lower Saxony derbies, scoring 15 goals in the process. The Wolves have never won 6 matches in a row against any Bundesliga team.

• VfL are experiencing their worst ever start to a Bundesliga season having lost each of their first 3 matches.

• Never has a Bundesliga team who have lost their first three games in a season, qualified for European competitions.

• Hannover have never started the season with 7 points. Although they did start with 2 wins and a draw in the 1969/70 season before the new 3 points system was introduced.

• In the last 36 home matches, fans of Wolfsburg have always had goals to celebrate. The last time they failed to score was 4^th May 2008 when they drew 0:0 with FC Bayern. Only Bayern hold a longer series having scored a goal in each of their 39 home matched between November 1986 and April 1989.

•  In the attacking department VfL can be proud having provided the top goalscorer for the last two seasons (Dzeko 2009/10, Grafite 2008/09) as well as the top playmaker in both the 2006/07 and 2007/08 seasons (Diego, 13  and 10 assists).

• Steve McClaren, who only lost 2 matches in the whole of last season with FC Twente, has started with 3 loses in his first ever Bundesliga season. The record for the worst start for a new manager in the Bundesliga stands at 6 losses (Klaus-Peter Nemet with St. Pauli in 96/97 and Janos Bedl with Wuppertal 74/75).

• Trainer Mirko Slomka knows this feeling too well: he lost his first six matches in charge of Hannover last season. However, Slomka could celebrate his 50^th Bundesliga victory with a win over Wolfsburg.

• 96 have scored 6 goals this season either Didier Ya Konan (2 goals, 1 assist) or Mohammed Abdellaoue (2 goals, 1 assist) have been involved in all of them.

• Diego scored his first ever Bundesliga goal against Hannover 96 on the 1^st matchday of the 2006/07 season during a 4-2 Werder Bremen win when he made it 1-0. The Brazilian has, for the first time, lost his last 4 Bundesliga games in a row (2 with Wolfsburg and 2 with Bremen 08/09).

• Celebration: Christian Schulz could make his 200^th Bundesliga appearance, while Wolfsburg's Michael Schäfer will make his 100^th appearance in the Bundesliga if he plays on Saturday.