PK-35 Vantaa W v Honka W — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Kansallinen Liiga (W) · Friday, 2 October 2026. Final score 1–1 (half-time 0–1). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 67% for over 2.5 goals. This game was not captured by our pre-kick-off freeze, 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 goals67%33%Over
Over 3.5 goals45%55%no pick
Both teams to score59%41%Yes

The result model puts PK-35 Vantaa W at 46%, the draw at 23% and Honka W at 31%, from expected goals of 1.88 and 1.5.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Kansallinen Liiga (W) has produced over 2.5 goals in 68% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. PK-35 Vantaa W have 16 in 21 this season (7 of 10 at home), Honka W 4 in 7 (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 72% and 66%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 21 and 7 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 72% and 66%.

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 69%.

Head to head. These sides have met 4 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 68%.

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 66%, from expected goals of 1.88 for PK-35 Vantaa W and 1.5 for Honka W. Folding in 30% of that view gives 67%.

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
PK-35 Vantaa W2176%57%57%
Honka W757%29%57%

Head to head

23 Aug 26Honka W 2–1 PK-35 Vantaa WO2.5
18 Oct 24PK-35 Vantaa W 0–2 Honka WU2.5
16 Aug 24PK-35 Vantaa W 1–0 Honka WU2.5
26 May 24Honka W 3–2 PK-35 Vantaa WO2.5
17 Sept 23PK-35 Vantaa W 0–3 Honka WO2.5
22 Jul 23Honka W 2–2 PK-35 Vantaa WO2.5

More: PK-35 Vantaa W season stats · Honka W season stats · Kansallinen Liiga (W) table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.