St Pauli vs Kaiserslautern — 2. Bundesliga result and pre-match forecast, Sunday, 30 August 2026

2. Bundesliga·Sunday, 30 August 2026

Metis pre-match forecast

Independent model — no market price

Frozen as published · 3.6 h before kick-off. Never re-computed after the match.

FC St. Pauli

43%

top pick

Draw

26%

1. FC Kaiserslautern

31%

result

Final score

1–2

Top pick missed

Metis gave a 1. FC Kaiserslautern win 30.8% before kick-off, and its most likely result was a FC St. Pauli win. Expected goals 1.62–1.34 against 1–2 actual.

Forecast against the result

Over 2.5 goals57%3 scored
Both teams score60%yes
FC St. Pauli clean sheet26%no
1. FC Kaiserslautern clean sheet20%no
FC St. Pauli score 2+48%no
1. FC Kaiserslautern score 2+39%yes

How this forecast scored

Ranked probability score0.3326
1X2 Brier score0.7331
Probability on the result30.8%

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 (12.2%), 2–1 (9.1%), 1–0 (7.5%). It finished 1–2.

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St Pauli

9 AugHvs Greuther Furth1–1D
14 AugAvs Holstein Kiel2–2D
30 AugHvs Kaiserslautern1–2L
4 SeptAvs Bielefeld2–2D
12 SeptHvs Wolfsburg1–0W

Kaiserslautern

8 AugAvs Wolfsburg0–0D
15 AugHvs Karlsruhe0–0D
30 AugAvs St Pauli2–1W
5 SeptHvs Darmstadt3–0W
12 SeptAvs Magdeburg0–3L

Head to head

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

Model context

StatSt Pauli
(Home · 3 matches)
Kaiserslautern
(Away · 3 matches)
BTTS rate66.7%33.3%
Over 2.5 rate33.3%66.7%
Clean sheet33.3%33.3%
Avg goals2.002.00

Home stats use St Pauli's home record; away stats use Kaiserslautern'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.