Mirko Slomka has been assured his job as Hannover manager is safe for the match against Freiburg this weekend, despite losing his sixth straight game yesterday.

A 1-0 defeat at home to Lower Saxony neighbours Wolfsburg means Slomka has seen his side lose every single game since he replaced Andreas Bergmann as coach last month, but the club is sticking with him, at least for the time being. "Slomka will be our coach in Freiburg," said club president Martin Kind to Sky television.

When pressed on whether Slomka would still remain in the event of a record seventh-straight defeat against the fellow Bundesliga strugglers, Kind added: "I am assuming that we will win in Freiburg."

Only five other coaches in the history of the Bundesliga have endured such a poor start, but Slomka was happy with some positive signs in yesterday's defeat. "We played very passionately and, at times, some exciting football going forward," he said.

Nevertheless, he still has a challenge on his hands convincing the fans at the Niedersachsen Stadion not to head for the exits as soon as his side concedes a goal. "We need to change that," he said. "It is not good when they want to go home so quickly."

The Wolfsburg fans would have stayed there all week celebrating a derby victory which moved them back above Borussia Monchengladbach into 11th place. "We played well overall," said their coach Lorenz-Gunther Kostner. "And it was also good that we did not concede and then we scored our goal at just the right time." Keeping the eagerness of the viewers ticket4football.com provides football fans with the facility to get Germany world cup tickets and football tickets for other soccer events online you can also buy England world cup tickets, World cup tickets, Champions League tickets and Champions League final tickets.