Pardubice v FK Jablonec — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Czech Liga · Sunday, 2 August 2026. Final score 0–2 (half-time 0–2). 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 score53%47%Yes

The result model puts Pardubice at 36%, the draw at 26% and FK Jablonec at 38%, from expected goals of 1.38 and 1.44.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Czech Liga has produced over 2.5 goals in 50% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Pardubice have 1 in 1 this season, FK Jablonec 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 52% and 52%.

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 52% and 45%.

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 49%.

Head to head. These sides have met 6 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 49%.

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 54%, from expected goals of 1.38 for Pardubice and 1.44 for FK Jablonec. 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
Pardubice1100%0%100%
FK Jablonec1100%0%100%

Head to head

15 Feb 26Pardubice 0–2 FK JablonecU2.5
14 Sept 25FK Jablonec 3–2 PardubiceO2.5
13 Apr 25FK Jablonec 1–0 PardubiceU2.5
9 Nov 24Pardubice 2–0 FK JablonecU2.5
16 May 24FK Jablonec 3–0 PardubiceO2.5
26 Nov 23FK Jablonec 2–1 PardubiceO2.5

More: Pardubice season stats · FK Jablonec season stats · Czech Liga table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.