Pogon Szczecin v Korona Kielce — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Ekstraklasa · Sunday, 11 October 2026. Final score 2–0 (half-time 1–0). Before kick-off we rated it 51% over 2.5 goals — the match finished with 2, so that call missed. That rating was frozen into a version-controlled ledger before the game and has not been touched since.

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Our ratings for this match

MarketYesNoOur call
Over 2.5 goals51%49%no pick
Over 3.5 goals26%74%no pick
Both teams to score56%44%Yes

The result model puts Pogon Szczecin at 40%, the draw at 27% and Korona Kielce at 33%, from expected goals of 1.36 and 1.2.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Ekstraklasa has produced over 2.5 goals in 54% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Pogon Szczecin have 3 in 8 this season (2 of 5 at home), Korona Kielce 3 in 9 (2 of 4 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 50% and 48%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 8 and 9 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 53% and 47%.

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 50%.

Head to head. These sides have met 5 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 60%. 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 51%.

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 47%, from expected goals of 1.36 for Pogon Szczecin and 1.2 for Korona Kielce. Folding in 30% of that view gives 50%.

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 51%.

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
Pogon Szczecin838%25%50%
Korona Kielce933%11%67%

Head to head

16 Mar 26Pogon Szczecin 2–1 Korona KielceO2.5
13 Sept 25Korona Kielce 1–0 Pogon SzczecinU2.5
9 Dec 24Korona Kielce 0–0 Pogon SzczecinU2.5
20 Jul 24Pogon Szczecin 3–0 Korona KielceO2.5
17 Mar 24Korona Kielce 2–2 Pogon SzczecinO2.5
16 Sept 23Pogon Szczecin 3–1 Korona KielceO2.5

More: Pogon Szczecin season stats · Korona Kielce season stats · Ekstraklasa table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.