EB / Streymur v AB — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Meistaradeildin · Sunday, 15 March 2026. Final score 0–3 (half-time 0–2). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 69% for over 2.5 goals. This match is older than our frozen ratings ledger, which keeps 30 days, so that figure is a reconstruction from pre-match data rather than a number we published at the time — a distinction worth making, because only the frozen ones prove what we actually said beforehand.

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Our ratings for this match

MarketYesNoOur call
Over 2.5 goals69%31%Over
Over 3.5 goals46%54%Over
Both teams to score61%39%Yes

The result model puts EB / Streymur at 29%, the draw at 23% and AB at 48%, from expected goals of 1.39 and 1.83.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Meistaradeildin has produced over 2.5 goals in 72% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. EB / Streymur have 1 in 1 this season, AB 0 in 1. Those records are pulled toward the league rate with the weight of about 24 matches — enough that two or three unusual games cannot swing a rating — giving 73% and 69%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 1 and 1 games played this season, last season's rates are still blended in and fade out entirely by game 40 — the point at which our testing showed they stop adding accuracy. A single season is part luck, so each club's record is first pulled toward the league average by 34 games' weight. That moves the two figures to 71% and 69%.

The mix. Weighted 40% home side, 40% away side and 20% league — the split that beat every alternative across 30,582 matches of testing — that gives 70%.

Head to head. These sides have met 2 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 100%. That nudges the number 5% of the way toward the head-to-head pattern — deliberately small, because fixtures change more than reputations do — landing on 72%.

Goal expectation. Separately a Poisson model built from attack and defence strength — using real expected-goals data where the league has it — puts this match at 62%, from expected goals of 1.39 for EB / Streymur and 1.83 for AB. Folding in 30% of that view gives 69%.

This breakdown is generated from the same inputs the rating uses, so it cannot describe a calculation we did not perform. The full model is set out in the methodology.

Season form

TeamGamesO2.5O3.5BTTS
EB / Streymur1100%0%100%
AB10%0%0%

Head to head

20 Aug 23EB / Streymur 4–1 ABO2.5
12 Aug 23AB 1–3 EB / StreymurO2.5
5 Mar 23EB / Streymur 2–0 ABU2.5
17 Sept 22EB / Streymur 1–1 ABU2.5
27 Jul 22AB 1–1 EB / StreymurU2.5
24 Apr 22EB / Streymur 1–0 ABU2.5

More: EB / Streymur season stats · AB season stats · Meistaradeildin table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.