Trans Narva v Tammeka — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Meistriliiga · Tuesday, 7 April 2026. Final score 3–0 (half-time 2–0). 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 goals44%56%no pick
Both teams to score59%41%Yes

The result model puts Trans Narva at 59%, the draw at 19% and Tammeka at 21%, from expected goals of 2.43 and 1.43.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Meistriliiga has produced over 2.5 goals in 67% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Trans Narva have 3 in 4 this season (2 of 2 at home), Tammeka 3 in 4 (2 of 2 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 68% and 68%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 4 and 4 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 72%.

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 68%.

Head to head. These sides have met 12 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 50%. 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 67%.

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 74%, from expected goals of 2.43 for Trans Narva and 1.43 for Tammeka. 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
Trans Narva475%0%75%
Tammeka475%75%75%

Head to head

8 Nov 25Tammeka 2–0 Trans NarvaU2.5
9 Aug 25Trans Narva 4–1 TammekaO2.5
3 May 25Trans Narva 4–0 TammekaO2.5
13 Apr 25Tammeka 1–2 Trans NarvaO2.5
3 Nov 24Tammeka 3–3 Trans NarvaO2.5
31 Aug 24Trans Narva 0–1 TammekaU2.5

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