FK Košice v Dukla Banská Bystrica — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Super Liga · Sunday, 6 September 2026. Final score 3–0 (half-time 3–0). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 62% 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 goals62%38%Over
Over 3.5 goals40%60%no pick
Both teams to score56%44%no pick

The result model puts FK Košice at 58%, the draw at 22% and Dukla Banská Bystrica at 21%, from expected goals of 2.08 and 1.17.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Super Liga has produced over 2.5 goals in 58% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. FK Košice have 5 in 5 this season (2 of 2 at home), Dukla Banská Bystrica 4 in 6 (1 of 3 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 65% and 60%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 5 and 6 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 63% and 60%.

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 61%.

Head to head. These sides have met 6 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 67%. 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 61%.

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 63%, from expected goals of 2.08 for FK Košice and 1.17 for Dukla Banská Bystrica. Folding in 30% of that view gives 62%.

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 Košice5100%80%100%
Dukla Banská Bystrica667%50%33%

Head to head

15 Feb 25FK Košice 4–0 Dukla Banská BystricaO2.5
28 Sept 24Dukla Banská Bystrica 2–3 FK KošiceO2.5
3 May 24Dukla Banská Bystrica 2–1 FK KošiceO2.5
6 Apr 24FK Košice 0–1 Dukla Banská BystricaU2.5
2 Mar 24Dukla Banská Bystrica 1–1 FK KošiceU2.5
21 Oct 23FK Košice 2–4 Dukla Banská BystricaO2.5

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