Wisla Plock v Widzew Łódź — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Ekstraklasa · Friday, 31 July 2026. Final score 0–0 (half-time 0–0). 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 score52%48%Yes

The result model puts Wisla Plock at 39%, the draw at 32% and Widzew Łódź at 30%, from expected goals of 1.09 and 0.91.

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. Wisla Plock have 1 in 1 this season, Widzew Łódź 1 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 54%.

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 44% and 50%.

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 48%.

Head to head. These sides have met 2 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 0%. 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 45%.

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 32%, from expected goals of 1.09 for Wisla Plock and 0.91 for Widzew Łódź. 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
Wisla Plock1100%0%100%
Widzew Łódź1100%100%100%

Head to head

14 Feb 26Wisla Plock 0–2 Widzew ŁódźU2.5
9 Aug 25Widzew Łódź 1–1 Wisla PlockU2.5
13 Mar 23Wisla Plock 1–1 Widzew ŁódźU2.5
27 Aug 22Widzew Łódź 2–1 Wisla PlockO2.5

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