FK Crvena Zvezda v Cukaricki — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Super Liga · Sunday, 23 August 2026 · 18:00. Our rating makes this 60% to go over 2.5 goals, so our lean is over. The Super Liga average is 50%.

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Our ratings for this match

MarketYesNoOur call
Over 2.5 goals60%40%Over
Over 3.5 goals36%64%no pick
Both teams to score56%44%Yes

The result model puts FK Crvena Zvezda at 58%, the draw at 22% and Cukaricki at 20%, from expected goals of 1.87 and 0.99.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Super 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. FK Crvena Zvezda have 2 in 3 this season (2 of 3 at home), Cukaricki 2 in 5 (1 of 2 away). Those records are pulled toward the league rate with the weight of about 32 matches — enough that two or three unusual games cannot swing a rating — giving 53% and 49%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 3 and 5 games played this season, last season's rates are still blended in and fade out entirely by game 14 — the point at which our testing showed they stop adding accuracy. That moves the two figures to 71% and 49%.

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 58%.

Head to head. These sides have met 8 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 100%. That nudges the number 10% of the way toward the head-to-head pattern — deliberately small, because fixtures change more than reputations do — landing on 62%.

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 55%, from expected goals of 1.87 for FK Crvena Zvezda and 0.99 for Cukaricki. Folding in 30% of that view gives 60%.

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
FK Crvena Zvezda367%67%33%
Cukaricki540%20%20%

Head to head

4 May 26Cukaricki 1–2 FK Crvena ZvezdaO2.5
1 Feb 26Cukaricki 1–3 FK Crvena ZvezdaO2.5
4 Dec 25FK Crvena Zvezda 3–0 CukarickiO2.5
22 Dec 24FK Crvena Zvezda 5–2 CukarickiO2.5
15 Aug 24Cukaricki 1–4 FK Crvena ZvezdaO2.5
25 May 24FK Crvena Zvezda 4–1 CukarickiO2.5

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