Partizani v Dinamo Tirana — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Superliga · Saturday, 12 September 2026. Final score 2–4 (half-time 1–3). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 38% 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 goals38%62%Under
Over 3.5 goals18%82%no pick
Both teams to score46%54%No

The result model puts Partizani at 27%, the draw at 33% and Dinamo Tirana at 40%, from expected goals of 0.78 and 1.02.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Superliga has produced over 2.5 goals in 37% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Partizani have 2 in 3 this season (1 of 2 at home), Dinamo Tirana 1 in 3 (0 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 41% and 37%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 3 and 3 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 42% and 35%.

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 39%.

Head to head. These sides have met 13 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 54%. 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 39%.

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 27%, from expected goals of 0.78 for Partizani and 1.02 for Dinamo Tirana. Folding in 30% of that view gives 36%.

Calibration. Tested against 97,729 past matches, our ratings below 55% have run consistently too pessimistic — a figure in the high 30s, for instance, has come in about four points higher. So ratings in that range are lifted part-way back, giving 38%.

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
Partizani367%33%67%
Dinamo Tirana333%0%33%

Head to head

10 May 26Partizani 2–1 Dinamo TiranaO2.5
9 Mar 26Dinamo Tirana 0–2 PartizaniU2.5
23 Dec 25Partizani 1–3 Dinamo TiranaO2.5
29 Oct 25Dinamo Tirana 2–0 PartizaniU2.5
10 May 25Dinamo Tirana 1–2 PartizaniO2.5
27 Mar 25Dinamo Tirana 1–0 PartizaniU2.5

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