Beşiktaş v Başakşehir — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Süper Lig · Monday, 26 October 2026 · 16:00. Our rating makes this 56% to go over 2.5 goals, so our lean is over. The Süper Lig average is 54%.

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Our ratings for this match

MarketYesNoOur call
Over 2.5 goals56%44%Over
Over 3.5 goals31%69%no pick
Both teams to score54%46%Yes

The result model puts Beşiktaş at 59%, the draw at 22% and Başakşehir at 19%, from expected goals of 1.99 and 1.03.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Süper Lig 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. Beşiktaş have 5 in 7 this season (3 of 4 at home), Başakşehir 5 in 8 (2 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 58% and 56%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 7 and 8 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 57% and 57%.

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 56%.

Head to head. These sides have met 6 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 33%. 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 58%, from expected goals of 1.99 for Beşiktaş and 1.03 for Başakşehir. Folding in 30% of that view gives 56%.

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
Beşiktaş771%29%57%
Başakşehir863%38%50%

Head to head

15 Feb 26Başakşehir 2–3 BeşiktaşO2.5
13 Sept 25Beşiktaş 2–1 BaşakşehirO2.5
12 Apr 25Beşiktaş 0–2 BaşakşehirU2.5
10 Nov 24Başakşehir 0–0 BeşiktaşU2.5
4 Apr 24Başakşehir 1–1 BeşiktaşU2.5
12 Nov 23Beşiktaş 1–0 BaşakşehirU2.5

More: Beşiktaş season stats · Başakşehir season stats · Süper Lig table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.