FK Košice v Žilina — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Super Liga · Sunday, 25 October 2026 · 17:00. Our rating makes this 65% to go over 2.5 goals, so our lean is over. The Super Liga average is 58%.

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Our ratings for this match

MarketYesNoOur call
Over 2.5 goals65%35%Over
Over 3.5 goals45%55%no pick
Both teams to score63%37%Yes

The result model puts FK Košice at 39%, the draw at 22% and Žilina at 39%, from expected goals of 1.93 and 1.95.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Super Liga has produced over 2.5 goals in 58% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. FK Košice have 7 in 10 this season (3 of 5 at home), Žilina 10 in 11 (4 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 61% and 68%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 10 and 11 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 61%.

Head to head. These sides have met 8 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 63%. 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 61%.

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 75%, from expected goals of 1.93 for FK Košice and 1.95 for Žilina. Folding in 30% of that view gives 65%.

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
FK Košice1070%50%80%
Žilina1191%73%91%

Head to head

26 Jul 26Žilina 4–4 FK KošiceO2.5
22 Feb 26FK Košice 2–2 ŽilinaO2.5
4 Oct 25Žilina 4–1 FK KošiceO2.5
10 May 25FK Košice 3–2 ŽilinaO2.5
23 Apr 25Žilina 0–0 FK KošiceU2.5
8 Feb 25Žilina 0–2 FK KošiceU2.5

More: FK Košice season stats · Žilina season stats · Super Liga table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.