Greuther Furth vs Magdeburg — 2. Bundesliga result and pre-match forecast, Friday, 18 September 2026

2. Bundesliga·Friday, 18 September 2026

Metis pre-match forecast

Independent model — no market price

Frozen as published · 13.0 h before kick-off. Never re-computed after the match.

Greuther Furth

39%

top pick

Draw

25%

result

Magdeburg

36%

Final score

1–1

Top pick missed

Metis gave the draw 25.4% before kick-off, and its most likely result was a Greuther Furth win. Expected goals 1.60–1.53 against 1–1 actual.

Forecast against the result

Over 2.5 goals60%2 scored
Both teams score63%yes
Greuther Furth clean sheet22%no
Magdeburg clean sheet20%no
Greuther Furth score 2+47%no
Magdeburg score 2+45%no

How this forecast scored

Ranked probability score0.1392
1X2 Brier score0.8344
Probability on the result25.4%

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 (11.6%), 2–1 (8.6%), 1–2 (8.2%). It finished 1–1 — one of them.

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Greuther Furth

9 AugAvs St Pauli1–1D
15 AugHvs Nurnberg2–4L
29 AugAvs Cottbus4–3W
6 SeptHvs Heidenheim0–1L
12 SeptAvs Bochum1–1D

Magdeburg

8 AugHvs Braunschweig1–6L
15 AugAvs Osnabruck3–0W
30 AugHvs Holstein Kiel2–0W
6 SeptAvs Hertha1–2L
12 SeptHvs Kaiserslautern3–0W

Head to head

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

Model context

StatGreuther Furth
(Home · 5 matches)
Magdeburg
(Away · 5 matches)
BTTS rate40.0%60.0%
Over 2.5 rate20.0%40.0%
Clean sheet40.0%20.0%
Avg goals2.402.40

Home stats use Greuther Furth's home record; away stats use Magdeburg'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.