Degerfors IF v Djurgardens IF — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Allsvenskan · Saturday, 25 July 2026. Final score 0–1 (half-time 0–1). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 52% 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 goals52%48%Over
Over 3.5 goals31%69%no pick
Both teams to score53%47%Yes

The result model puts Degerfors IF at 13%, the draw at 22% and Djurgardens IF at 65%, from expected goals of 0.69 and 1.86.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Allsvenskan has produced over 2.5 goals in 53% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Degerfors IF have 7 in 13 this season (4 of 7 at home), Djurgardens IF 8 in 12 (3 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 53% and 57%.

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 54% 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 52%.

Head to head. These sides have met 3 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 67%. 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 53%.

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 47%, from expected goals of 0.69 for Degerfors IF and 1.86 for Djurgardens IF. Folding in 30% of that view gives 51%.

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 52%.

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
Degerfors IF1354%23%54%
Djurgardens IF1267%42%58%

Head to head

4 Oct 25Degerfors IF 1–1 Djurgardens IFU2.5
6 Jul 25Djurgardens IF 5–1 Degerfors IFO2.5
27 Aug 23Djurgardens IF 4–1 Degerfors IFO2.5
30 Apr 23Degerfors IF 2–1 Djurgardens IFO2.5
1 Oct 22Degerfors IF 3–0 Djurgardens IFO2.5
4 Apr 22Djurgardens IF 3–1 Degerfors IFO2.5

More: Degerfors IF season stats · Djurgardens IF season stats · Allsvenskan table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.