OFK Beograd vs FK Crvena Zvezda — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Super Liga · Sunday, 25 October 2026 · 15:00. Our rating makes this 55% to go over 2.5 goals, so our lean is over. The Super Liga average is 50%.

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Our ratings for this match

MarketYesNoOur call
Over 2.5 goals55%45%Over
Over 3.5 goals34%66%no pick
Both teams to score51%49%Yes

The result model puts OFK Beograd at 12%, the draw at 20% and FK Crvena Zvezda at 68%, from expected goals of 0.73 and 2.07.

Bookmaker prices and where we differ

MarketPriceImpliedOur ratingEdge
Over 2.5 goals1.4066%55%-12%
Under 2.5 goals2.7534%45%+12%
Both teams to score1.6756%51%-5%

Implied percentages have the bookmaker's margin removed, so they add to 100 and can be compared with our rating directly. Edge is simply the gap between the two. A positive edge means our model thinks the outcome is likelier than the price suggests — it is not a tip, and a high probability with a negative edge is a poor bet however safe it looks. Prices are a pre-match snapshot from a single bookmaker and move constantly.

Match odds: OFK Beograd 8.50, draw 5.50, FK Crvena Zvezda 1.30.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Super Liga has produced over 2.5 goals in 50% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. OFK Beograd have 6 in 12 this season (2 of 5 at home), FK Crvena Zvezda 8 in 12 (2 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 50% and 56%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 12 and 12 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 49% and 61%.

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 54%.

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 55%.

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 53%, from expected goals of 0.73 for OFK Beograd and 2.07 for FK Crvena Zvezda. Folding in 30% of that view gives 55%.

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
OFK Beograd1250%50%58%
FK Crvena Zvezda1267%33%33%

First and second half

Our numbers give this match a 72% chance of at least one goal before half-time and 35% of two or more. The Super Liga rates, last season and this season combined, are 70% and 33% (this season so far: 73% with a first-half goal, from 82 games). After the break: 73% for a goal and 44% for two or more (league 73% and 42%). OFK Beograd's last 50 games had a first-half goal 72% of the time and a second-half goal 68%; FK Crvena Zvezda's last 50, 76% and 76%. A goal in both halves: 56% (league 55%). Highest-scoring half: second 43%, first 29%, level 28% — close to the league's usual split, because team form says little about which half is busier. Team form says less about a single half than about a full match, so these numbers stay close to the league's.

Every match ranked the same way: first half goals today · second half goals today · goal in both halves today · tomorrow.

Head to head

22 May 26FK Crvena Zvezda 1–2 OFK BeogradO2.5
30 Nov 25OFK Beograd 3–4 FK Crvena ZvezdaO2.5
26 Jul 25FK Crvena Zvezda 7–1 OFK BeogradO2.5
27 Apr 25FK Crvena Zvezda 5–2 OFK BeogradO2.5
6 Apr 25FK Crvena Zvezda 3–1 OFK BeogradO2.5
10 Nov 24OFK Beograd 0–1 FK Crvena ZvezdaU2.5

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