IMT Novi Beograd v Mladost Lucani — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Super Liga · Saturday, 29 August 2026 · 17:00. Our rating makes this 40% to go over 2.5 goals, so our lean is under. The Super Liga average is 50%.

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Our ratings for this match

MarketYesNoOur call
Over 2.5 goals40%60%Under
Over 3.5 goals23%77%no pick
Both teams to score52%48%Yes

The result model puts IMT Novi Beograd at 49%, the draw at 29% and Mladost Lucani at 21%, from expected goals of 1.27 and 0.73.

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. IMT Novi Beograd have 2 in 5 this season (1 of 2 at home), Mladost Lucani 1 in 5 (0 of 3 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 49% and 42%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 5 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 42% and 41%.

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 43%.

Head to head. These sides have met 7 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 43%. 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 43%.

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 1.27 for IMT Novi Beograd and 0.73 for Mladost Lucani. Folding in 30% of that view gives 40%.

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
IMT Novi Beograd540%20%20%
Mladost Lucani520%20%40%

Head to head

19 Apr 26IMT Novi Beograd 1–1 Mladost LucaniU2.5
23 Nov 25IMT Novi Beograd 1–3 Mladost LucaniO2.5
20 Jul 25Mladost Lucani 1–1 IMT Novi BeogradU2.5
9 Mar 25IMT Novi Beograd 3–0 Mladost LucaniO2.5
20 Oct 24Mladost Lucani 1–0 IMT Novi BeogradU2.5
15 Apr 24Mladost Lucani 1–2 IMT Novi BeogradO2.5

More: IMT Novi Beograd season stats · Mladost Lucani season stats · Super Liga table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.