Spartak Trnava v FK Košice — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Super Liga · Saturday, 12 September 2026. Final score 5–2 (half-time 2–1). 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 score58%42%Yes

The result model puts Spartak Trnava at 54%, the draw at 21% and FK Košice at 24%, from expected goals of 2.13 and 1.38.

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. Spartak Trnava have 4 in 7 this season (2 of 4 at home), FK Košice 6 in 6 (3 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 58% and 66%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 7 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 59% and 64%.

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 8 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 50%. 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 60%.

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 68%, from expected goals of 2.13 for Spartak Trnava and 1.38 for FK Košice. 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
Spartak Trnava757%29%57%
FK Košice6100%67%83%

Head to head

22 Nov 25FK Košice 1–2 Spartak TrnavaO2.5
29 Oct 25Spartak Trnava 3–1 FK KošiceO2.5
4 May 25Spartak Trnava 0–1 FK KošiceU2.5
6 Apr 25FK Košice 2–1 Spartak TrnavaO2.5
14 Dec 24Spartak Trnava 1–0 FK KošiceU2.5
15 Sept 24FK Košice 1–1 Spartak TrnavaU2.5

More: Spartak Trnava 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.