Kalju Nomme v Trans Narva — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Meistriliiga · Friday, 3 April 2026. Final score 2–1 (half-time 0–1). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 61% 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 goals61%39%Over
Over 3.5 goals35%65%no pick
Both teams to score53%47%Yes

The result model puts Kalju Nomme at 63%, the draw at 22% and Trans Narva at 15%, from expected goals of 1.94 and 0.84.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Meistriliiga has produced over 2.5 goals in 68% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Kalju Nomme have 1 in 3 this season (1 of 1 at home), Trans Narva 2 in 3 (0 of 1 away). 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 64% and 67%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 3 and 3 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 63% and 63%.

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 64%.

Head to head. These sides have met 11 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 73%. 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 64%.

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 53%, from expected goals of 1.94 for Kalju Nomme and 0.84 for Trans Narva. Folding in 30% of that view gives 61%.

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
Kalju Nomme333%33%0%
Trans Narva367%0%67%

Head to head

17 Sept 25Trans Narva 0–0 Kalju NommeU2.5
17 Aug 25Kalju Nomme 1–2 Trans NarvaO2.5
15 Jun 25Kalju Nomme 2–0 Trans NarvaU2.5
19 Apr 25Trans Narva 1–2 Kalju NommeO2.5
20 Oct 24Kalju Nomme 2–2 Trans NarvaO2.5
13 Jul 24Trans Narva 2–2 Kalju NommeO2.5

More: Kalju Nomme season stats · Trans Narva season stats · Meistriliiga table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.