Zrinjski v Radnik Bijeljina — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Premijer Liga · Saturday, 24 October 2026 · 16:00. Our rating makes this 45% to go over 2.5 goals, though our own outlier boards contradict the call, so we sit it out. The Premijer Liga average is 38%.

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Our ratings for this match

MarketYesNoOur call
Over 2.5 goals45%55%no pick
Over 3.5 goals23%77%no pick
Both teams to score45%55%no pick

The result model puts Zrinjski at 70%, the draw at 19% and Radnik Bijeljina at 11%, from expected goals of 2.14 and 0.71.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Premijer Liga has produced over 2.5 goals in 38% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Zrinjski have 6 in 10 this season (3 of 5 at home), Radnik Bijeljina 7 in 10 (3 of 5 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 45% and 48%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 10 and 10 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 39% and 39%.

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 39%.

Head to head. These sides have met 8 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 38%. 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 39%.

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 54%, from expected goals of 2.14 for Zrinjski and 0.71 for Radnik Bijeljina. Folding in 30% of that view gives 43%.

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 45%.

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
Zrinjski1060%30%50%
Radnik Bijeljina1070%50%90%

Head to head

16 Aug 26Radnik Bijeljina 1–5 ZrinjskiO2.5
9 May 26Radnik Bijeljina 0–1 ZrinjskiU2.5
8 Mar 26Zrinjski 2–1 Radnik BijeljinaO2.5
21 Nov 25Radnik Bijeljina 0–2 ZrinjskiU2.5
1 Sept 25Zrinjski 2–0 Radnik BijeljinaU2.5
10 May 25Zrinjski 5–0 Radnik BijeljinaO2.5

More: Zrinjski season stats · Radnik Bijeljina season stats · Premijer Liga table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.