Sandviken v Falkenbergs FF — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Superettan · Tuesday, 9 June 2026. Final score 4–2 (half-time 4–1). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 60% 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 goals60%40%Over
Over 3.5 goals39%61%no pick
Both teams to score57%43%Yes

The result model puts Sandviken at 32%, the draw at 25% and Falkenbergs FF at 43%, from expected goals of 1.39 and 1.64.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Superettan has produced over 2.5 goals in 57% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Sandviken have 6 in 10 this season (2 of 5 at home), Falkenbergs FF 7 in 10 (4 of 4 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 58% and 60%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 10 and 10 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 58% and 60%.

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 58%.

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 61%.

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 58%, from expected goals of 1.39 for Sandviken and 1.64 for Falkenbergs FF. Folding in 30% of that view gives 60%.

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
Sandviken1060%30%50%
Falkenbergs FF1070%40%70%

Head to head

25 Aug 25Falkenbergs FF 4–0 SandvikenO2.5
22 Jun 25Sandviken 4–1 Falkenbergs FFO2.5

More: Sandviken season stats · Falkenbergs FF season stats · Superettan table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.