Nõmme United v Flora Tallinn — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Meistriliiga · Friday, 29 May 2026. Final score 0–4 (half-time 0–1). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 70% 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 goals70%30%Over
Over 3.5 goals42%58%no pick
Both teams to score58%42%Yes

The result model puts Nõmme United at 27%, the draw at 22% and Flora Tallinn at 51%, from expected goals of 1.45 and 2.03.

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. Nõmme United have 12 in 13 this season (6 of 6 at home), Flora Tallinn 8 in 12 (4 of 6 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 76% and 67%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 13 and 12 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 76% and 71%.

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 72%.

Head to head. These sides have met 5 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 40%. 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 71%.

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 68%, from expected goals of 1.45 for Nõmme United and 2.03 for Flora Tallinn. Folding in 30% of that view gives 70%.

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
Nõmme United1392%62%92%
Flora Tallinn1267%33%25%

Head to head

7 Mar 26Flora Tallinn 3–0 Nõmme UnitedO2.5
5 Oct 24Nõmme United 0–4 Flora TallinnO2.5
18 Aug 24Flora Tallinn 1–0 Nõmme UnitedU2.5
29 Jun 24Nõmme United 1–1 Flora TallinnU2.5
1 Mar 24Flora Tallinn 2–0 Nõmme UnitedU2.5

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