Skalica v FK Košice — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Super Liga · Saturday, 15 August 2026. Final score 2–4 (half-time 0–4). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 57% 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 goals57%43%Over
Over 3.5 goals37%63%no pick
Both teams to score56%44%Yes

The result model puts Skalica at 51%, the draw at 23% and FK Košice at 26%, from expected goals of 1.88 and 1.27.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Super Liga has produced over 2.5 goals in 57% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Skalica have 2 in 3 this season (1 of 1 at home), FK Košice 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 58% and 60%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 3 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 51% and 62%.

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 57%.

Head to head. These sides have met 10 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 40%. 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 56%.

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 61%, from expected goals of 1.88 for Skalica and 1.27 for FK Košice. Folding in 30% of that view gives 57%.

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
Skalica367%33%100%
FK Košice2100%100%100%

Head to head

5 May 26Skalica 3–1 FK KošiceO2.5
4 Apr 26FK Košice 2–0 SkalicaU2.5
7 Feb 26FK Košice 3–1 SkalicaO2.5
20 Sept 25Skalica 1–0 FK KošiceU2.5
8 Dec 24FK Košice 1–1 SkalicaU2.5
31 Aug 24Skalica 0–0 FK KošiceU2.5

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