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Bundesliga Matchday 9 · 2026-27

Matchday 3 · Bundesliga 2026-27 · September 13, 2026

Goals only: this source has no shots, so the replay comes from each side's goals over the season.

Elversberg 1–2 Bayern: lucky or expected?

Bayern beat Elversberg 2–1, and the goals lean Bayern’s way: 5 wins in 10, 3 for Elversberg, 2 end level. Rated on this season’s goals, Elversberg were expected to score 1.9 here and Bayern 2.6.

Luck index +37 Bayern lucky · −37 Elversberg

Our source has this match’s goals but not its shots, so it is replayed from what each side’s goals over the season say: both teams rated on every goal scored and conceded, and the match played again 4,000 times from those ratings. How often does this result come out? How the goals-only replay works

Ten replays. Elversberg win 3, 2 end level, Bayern win 5.

  1. 1 SVE 2 FCB 1
  2. 2 SVE 3 FCB 2
  3. 3 SVE 4 FCB 1
  4. 4 SVE 2 FCB 2
  5. 5 SVE 1 FCB 1
  6. 6 SVE 0 FCB 4
  7. 7 SVE 0 FCB 3
  8. 8 SVE 1 FCB 3
  9. 9 SVE 1 FCB 2
  10. 10 SVE 1 FCB 2

Our prediction before kickoff

We had Bayern 72% to win, 17% for a draw, Elversberg 11%. Bayern won: the pick was right. The final margin was 0.7 goals from ours; 59% of matches like this end further from the forecast than that.

Most of the distance between a forecast and a final score is luck: even with both clubs’ strength known exactly, a few shots decide a soccer match. This match was played before our forecasts went live, so this one was made afterwards, the same way, from only what was known before kickoff. How our predictions have done

The goals

Elversberg’s chance of winning

As low as 0% and as high as 65%. Numbers mark the goals, listed below.

Our in-game win probability: the score and the minutes left, with goals for the rest of the match at the league’s rates. A draw counts half, as in the replays. Shaded above the middle while Elversberg was ahead in it, below while Bayern was.
MinuteGoalScoreWin chance
1. 26' Lennart Karl (Bayern) 0–1 +25% Bayern
2. 61' M. Krattenmacher (Elversberg) 1–1 +35% Elversberg
3. 72' H. Kane (Bayern) 1–2 +39% Bayern

Win chance: the scoring side’s chance of winning the moment before the goal against the moment after it, from the score and the minutes left. A draw counts half.

About these numbers

Scores and goals from openfootball (public domain), the newest also from OpenLigaDB (Open Database License). Neither has no shots, so there is no expected goals for this match and no finishing luck: the replay, the in-game win probability and the luck index are our own models, built from the season’s goals alone (methodology and validation). The luck index is how far the result was from what the goals say. Bayern win 63% of replays (a draw counted as half).

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