PEC Zwolle v Feyenoord — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Eredivisie · Sunday, 13 September 2026. Final score 0–7 (half-time 0–3). 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 goals41%59%no pick
Both teams to score60%40%Yes

The result model puts PEC Zwolle at 15%, the draw at 20% and Feyenoord at 65%, from expected goals of 0.94 and 2.17.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Eredivisie has produced over 2.5 goals in 63% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. PEC Zwolle have 3 in 5 this season (1 of 2 at home), Feyenoord 4 in 5 (2 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 63% and 66%.

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 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 62%.

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 62%.

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 63%.

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 60%, from expected goals of 0.94 for PEC Zwolle and 2.17 for Feyenoord. 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
PEC Zwolle560%60%60%
Feyenoord580%80%80%

Head to head

17 May 26PEC Zwolle 0–2 FeyenoordU2.5
6 Dec 25Feyenoord 6–1 PEC ZwolleO2.5
25 Apr 25Feyenoord 4–0 PEC ZwolleO2.5
18 Aug 24PEC Zwolle 1–5 FeyenoordO2.5
5 May 24Feyenoord 5–0 PEC ZwolleO2.5
8 Oct 23PEC Zwolle 0–2 FeyenoordU2.5

More: PEC Zwolle season stats · Feyenoord season stats · Eredivisie table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.