Schalke 04 vs Elversberg — Bundesliga result and pre-match forecast, Sunday, 20 September 2026

Bundesliga·Sunday, 20 September 2026

Metis pre-match forecast

Market-anchored distribution

Frozen as published · 7.1 h before kick-off. Never re-computed after the match.

Schalke 04

49%

top pick

Draw

25%

result

Elversberg

26%

Final score

0–0

Top pick missed

Metis gave the draw 24.8% before kick-off, and its most likely result was a Schalke 04 win. Expected goals 1.73–1.26 against 0–0 actual.

Forecast against the result

Over 2.5 goals58%0 scored
Both teams score60%no
Schalke 04 clean sheet29%yes
Elversberg clean sheet17%yes
Schalke 04 score 2+52%no
Elversberg score 2+35%no

How this forecast scored

Ranked probability score0.1555
1X2 Brier score0.8770
Probability on the result24.8%

Both scores are losses: lower is better, 0 is a forecast that put all of its probability on what happened. A single fixture says nothing on its own — the league's running record is on its league page, and the model is measured against the Pinnacle opening price in the methodology.

Most likely scores before kick-off: 1–1 (11.5%), 2–1 (10.6%), 1–0 (8.6%). It finished 0–0.

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Schalke 04

30 AugAvs Augsburg0–3L
5 SeptHvs Bayern Munich0–0D
11 SeptAvs Union Berlin3–1W
20 SeptHvs Elversberg0–0D
11 OctAvs Freiburg1–2L

Elversberg

29 AugHvs Bayer Leverkusen3–2W
5 SeptAvs Borussia M.Gladbach4–3W
13 SeptHvs Bayern Munich1–2L
20 SeptAvs Schalke 040–0D
10 OctAvs Union Berlin0–1L

Head to head

No previous meetings in the Metis results archive for this competition.

Model context

StatSchalke 04
(Home · 4 matches)
Elversberg
(Away · 4 matches)
BTTS rate0.0%25.0%
Over 2.5 rate0.0%50.0%
Clean sheet50.0%25.0%
Avg goals0.753.00

Home stats use Schalke 04's home record; away stats use Elversberg's away record this season. These are completed-match rates over the samples shown above, not model probabilities — early in a season a handful of matches produces 0% and 100% readings.