Motor Lublin v Jagiellonia — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Ekstraklasa · Friday, 31 July 2026. Final score 1–2 (half-time 0–1). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 51% 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 goals51%49%Over
Over 3.5 goals29%71%no pick
Both teams to score55%45%Yes

The result model puts Motor Lublin at 31%, the draw at 29% and Jagiellonia at 40%, from expected goals of 1.07 and 1.26.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Ekstraklasa has produced over 2.5 goals in 52% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Motor Lublin have 1 in 1 this season, Jagiellonia 0 in 1. 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 54% and 50%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 1 and 1 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 51% and 58%.

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 54%.

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 54%.

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 41%, from expected goals of 1.07 for Motor Lublin and 1.26 for Jagiellonia. Folding in 30% of that view gives 50%.

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 51%.

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
Motor Lublin1100%100%100%
Jagiellonia10%0%0%

Head to head

7 Feb 26Jagiellonia 4–1 Motor LublinO2.5
14 Dec 25Motor Lublin 1–1 JagielloniaU2.5
16 Feb 25Jagiellonia 3–0 Motor LublinO2.5
25 Sept 24Motor Lublin 0–2 JagielloniaU2.5

More: Motor Lublin season stats · Jagiellonia season stats · Ekstraklasa table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.