Super League 1 · Greece · Regular Season - 2

Aris Thessalonikis–OFI

2–1

HT 1–0

Kick-off: Sunday, 30 August 2026 at 16:30
Status: Match Finished

What the model said, and what happened

Prediction correct

This verdict goes into the public record unchanged; we do not filter out the ones we get wrong. The model's track record

Goals and red cards

3'Aris ThessalonikisManu García (assist: U. Račić)
68'Aris ThessalonikisC. Kouame
90+5'OFIK. Kodro (assist: N. Athanasiou)

Match statistics

Match statistics
Aris Thessalonikis		OFI
17	Shots	10
10	Shots on target	3
9	Shots inside the box	8
2	Goalkeeper saves	8
3	Corners	1
3	Offsides	0
42%	Possession	58%
384	Passes	523
322	Accurate passes

What we expected, and what happened

Expected goals before kick-off: Aris Thessalonikis 1.69 · OFI 0.88. On the pitch: 2-1.
Shots Aris Thessalonikis 17 · OFI 10; on target 10 and 3.
OFI kept the ball more (58%).

Referee

Anastasios Papapetrou, Greece→

3.90

yellows per match

0.10

reds per match

matches of data

10 matches is a small sample — these averages are noisy and should not be read as a tendency.

Model prediction

Why this prediction?

The model puts the most likely outcome at 56.4%: “Aris Thessalonikis to win”. Second comes “a draw” at 25.6%.
Behind that distribution are the expected goals: 1.69 for Aris Thessalonikis, 0.88 for OFI.
The highest double chance value is 82.0% (1X — Aris Thessalonikis win or draw).
These values were computed from 820 past matches.

This is a prediction, not a guarantee; a probability is not a certainty.

These sentences are built by a fixed template; every number in them comes straight from the model's computation, none invented while the text was written.

Aris Thessalonikis to win56.4%

Draw25.6%

OFI to win18.0%

When the model has said 55–60% in the past, 1,758 of 2,948 predictions were correct (59.6%). Accuracy record →

16	Fouls	23

5	Yellow cards	2

0	Red cards	0

First half

Actual: 1–0

Aris Thessalonikis lead at half-time31.0%

Level at half-time43.7%

OFI lead at half-time25.4%

First-half double chance

1X — Aris Thessalonikis ahead or level74.6%

12 — not level at half-time56.3%

X2 — level or OFI ahead69.0%

These values are not a fraction of the full-match prediction; they come from a separate model trained on the first-half scores of 819 matches. Its edge over the base rate is markedly smaller than the full-match model's — the measured figure is on the accuracy record. Read them more cautiously. First-half goal markets are not published because they failed to beat the base rate.

Expected fouls and corners

Fouls

Aris Thessalonikis: at least 14Actual: 16
OFI: at least 13Actual: 23

Corners

Aris Thessalonikis: at least 6Actual: 3
OFI: at least 2Actual: 1

These figures are set to hold in at least 60% of matches; in the rest the count comes in below them. No upper bound is stated — we make no "at most" claim. Yellow cards were measured and are not published: there our model did not beat the historical average.

What these probabilities rest on

Expected goals comes out of a team's attack weighed against its opponent's defence. A strong attack is damped when it meets a strong defence — which is why comparing the ratings on their own is misleading.

How many goals Aris Thessalonikis score1.69

Attack: Aris Thessalonikis score close to the league average.

Opponent's defence: OFI concede 26% more than the league average, which pushes the expectation up.

Result: These two effects give an expectation of 1.69 goals (including home advantage).

How many goals OFI score0.88

Attack: OFI score close to the league average.

Opponent's defence: Aris Thessalonikis's defence is close to the league average (0.92×), so it doesn't move the expectation much.

Result: These two effects give an expectation of 0.88 goals (including the away penalty).

Most likely scorelines

1–113.0%1–012.2%2–011.1%

A single scoreline is always less likely than an outcome: “home win” is the sum of 1-0, 2-0, 2-1 and dozens more. So the most likely single score can be a draw while the most likely outcome is a home win; the two do not contradict each other.

Week 2 of the season. This prediction was computed from previous seasons. Summer transfers, budget changes and squad rebuilds aren't in the ratings yet — the model can only see that a team has been rebuilt once new results come in.

We measured this: the bias is only pronounced in the opening week. In this week the model's overall accuracy does not separate from the rest of the season — that is, we found no measurable flaw. The one tendency across all opening weeks is that home wins are called slightly too often (said 43.0%, got 41.9%; n=583).

This sample is small and not statistically established, which is why we do not correct the model for it. The correction we tried (pulling probabilities toward the league average) didn't win on holdout, so it wasn't added. Read opening-week predictions with a little more caution.