Utrecht W v PEC Zwolle W — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Vrouwen Eredivisie (W) · Sunday, 13 September 2026. Final score 3–4 (half-time 0–3). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 60% 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 goals60%40%Over
Over 3.5 goals36%64%no pick
Both teams to score52%48%Yes

The result model puts Utrecht W at 49%, the draw at 27% and PEC Zwolle W at 24%, from expected goals of 1.5 and 0.98.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Vrouwen Eredivisie (W) has produced over 2.5 goals in 65% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Utrecht W have 0 in 3 this season (0 of 1 at home), PEC Zwolle W 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 58% and 61%.

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 67% 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 65%.

Head to head. These sides have met 6 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 83%. 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 66%.

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 45%, from expected goals of 1.5 for Utrecht W and 0.98 for PEC Zwolle W. Folding in 30% of that view gives 60%.

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
Utrecht W30%0%33%
PEC Zwolle W333%33%33%

Head to head

5 Apr 26Utrecht W 3–0 PEC Zwolle WO2.5
7 Sept 25PEC Zwolle W 1–2 Utrecht WO2.5
17 May 25Utrecht W 0–0 PEC Zwolle WU2.5
5 Oct 24PEC Zwolle W 0–4 Utrecht WO2.5
1 May 24Utrecht W 2–4 PEC Zwolle WO2.5
15 Sept 23PEC Zwolle W 3–4 Utrecht WO2.5

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