Gwangju FC v FC Anyang — prediction, stats and goal analysis

K League 1 · Sunday, 26 April 2026. Final score 2–5 (half-time 0–3). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 44% 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 goals44%56%Under
Over 3.5 goals21%79%no pick
Both teams to score51%49%Yes

The result model puts Gwangju FC at 37%, the draw at 31% and FC Anyang at 32%, from expected goals of 1.06 and 0.97.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. K League 1 has produced over 2.5 goals in 46% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Gwangju FC have 4 in 9 this season (1 of 3 at home), FC Anyang 2 in 9 (1 of 5 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 46% and 40%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 9 and 9 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 42% and 49%.

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 46%.

Head to head. These sides have met 4 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 46%.

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 33%, from expected goals of 1.06 for Gwangju FC and 0.97 for FC Anyang. Folding in 30% of that view gives 42%.

Calibration. Tested against 97,729 past matches, our ratings below 55% have run consistently too pessimistic — a figure in the high 30s, for instance, has come in about four points higher. So ratings in that range are lifted part-way back, giving 44%.

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
Gwangju FC944%33%33%
FC Anyang922%0%78%

Head to head

25 Oct 25Gwangju FC 1–0 FC AnyangU2.5
28 Sept 25FC Anyang 0–0 Gwangju FCU2.5
28 Jun 25FC Anyang 1–2 Gwangju FCO2.5
1 Mar 25Gwangju FC 2–1 FC AnyangO2.5

More: Gwangju FC season stats · FC Anyang season stats · K League 1 table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.