Randers FC v Lyngby — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Superliga · Sunday, 9 August 2026. Final score 2–0 (half-time 1–0). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 56% 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 goals56%44%Over
Over 3.5 goals33%67%no pick
Both teams to score58%42%Yes

The result model puts Randers FC at 41%, the draw at 26% and Lyngby at 32%, from expected goals of 1.46 and 1.25.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Superliga has produced over 2.5 goals in 60% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Randers FC have 0 in 2 this season (0 of 1 at home), Lyngby 2 in 2 (1 of 1 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 55% and 63%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 2 and 2 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 57% and 63%.

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 60%.

Head to head. These sides have met 6 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 33%. 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 58%.

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 51%, from expected goals of 1.46 for Randers FC and 1.25 for Lyngby. Folding in 30% of that view gives 56%.

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
Randers FC20%0%50%
Lyngby2100%100%100%

Head to head

21 Feb 25Lyngby 0–0 Randers FCU2.5
6 Oct 24Randers FC 1–1 LyngbyU2.5
5 May 24Lyngby 2–1 Randers FCO2.5
31 Mar 24Randers FC 6–2 LyngbyO2.5
23 Feb 24Randers FC 1–0 LyngbyU2.5
20 Aug 23Lyngby 1–0 Randers FCU2.5

More: Randers FC season stats · Lyngby season stats · Superliga table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.