Super Liga · Serbia · Regular Season - 3

FK Partizan–IMT Novi Beograd

1–2

HT 0–0

Kick-off: Sunday, 2 August 2026 at 18:00
Status: Match Finished

What the model said, and what happened

Incorrect — we gave this result 20%

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

14'FK PartizanA. Zekovic · red card
52'IMT Novi BeogradD. Zagar (assist: T. Cojic)
89'FK PartizanM. Vukotic
90'IMT Novi BeogradO. Lebi

Match statistics

Match statistics
FK Partizan		IMT Novi Beograd
13	Shots	14
4	Shots on target	4
7	Shots inside the box	7
2	Goalkeeper saves	3
6	Corners	5
0	Offsides	2
55%	Possession	45%
414	Passes	353
325	Accurate passes

What we expected, and what happened

Expected goals before kick-off: FK Partizan 1.79 · IMT Novi Beograd 1.00. On the pitch: 1-2.
Shots FK Partizan 13 · IMT Novi Beograd 14; on target 4 and 4.
FK Partizan kept the ball more (55%).

Referee

Milos Milanovic, Serbia→

4.67

yellows per match

0.00

reds per match

matches of data

3 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 55.6%: “FK Partizan to win”. Second comes “a draw” at 24.8%.
Behind that distribution are the expected goals: 1.79 for FK Partizan, 1.00 for IMT Novi Beograd.
The highest double chance value is 80.4% (1X — FK Partizan win or draw).
These values were computed from 1,087 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.

FK Partizan to win55.6%

Draw24.8%

IMT Novi Beograd to win19.6%

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

7	Fouls	24

1	Yellow cards	3

1	Red cards	0

First half

Actual: 0–0

FK Partizan lead at half-time61.0%

Level at half-time33.3%

IMT Novi Beograd lead at half-time5.7%

First-half double chance

1X — FK Partizan ahead or level94.3%

12 — not level at half-time66.7%

X2 — level or IMT Novi Beograd ahead39.0%

These values are not a fraction of the full-match prediction; they come from a separate model trained on the first-half scores of 1087 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

FK Partizan: at least 12Actual: 7
IMT Novi Beograd: at least 14Actual: 24

Corners

FK Partizan: at least 3Actual: 6
IMT Novi Beograd: at least 4Actual: 5

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 FK Partizan score1.79

Attack: FK Partizan score above the league average (37% more).

Opponent's defence: IMT Novi Beograd's defence is close to the league average (0.87×), so it doesn't move the expectation much.

Result: These two effects give an expectation of 1.79 goals (including home advantage).

How many goals IMT Novi Beograd score1.00

Attack: IMT Novi Beograd score close to the league average.

Opponent's defence: FK Partizan concede 18% fewer than the league average, which pulls the expectation down.

Result: These two effects give an expectation of 1.00 goals (including the away penalty).

Most likely scorelines

1–112.5%2–110.9%1–010.2%

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 3 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.