Galatasaray vs Kocaelispor — Süper Lig result and pre-match forecast, Sunday, 13 September 2026

Süper Lig·Sunday, 13 September 2026

Metis pre-match forecast

Independent model — no market price

Frozen as published · 32.6 h before kick-off. Never re-computed after the match.

Galatasaray

83%

pick · result

Draw

12%

Kocaelispor

5%

Final score

1–0

Top pick landed

Metis gave a Galatasaray win 82.8% before kick-off, and its most likely result was a Galatasaray win. Expected goals 2.94–0.66 against 1–0 actual.

Forecast against the result

Over 2.5 goals70%1 scored
Both teams score46%no
Galatasaray clean sheet52%yes
Kocaelispor clean sheet5%no
Galatasaray score 2+79%no
Kocaelispor score 2+14%no

How this forecast scored

Ranked probability score0.0161
1X2 Brier score0.0467
Probability on the result82.8%

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: 2–0 (11.9%), 3–0 (11.6%), 4–0 (8.5%). It finished 1–0.

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Galatasaray

14 AugHvs Corum2–2D
21 AugAvs Erzurumspor4–0W
29 AugHvs Goztepe3–2W
4 SeptAvs Basaksehir3–2W
13 SeptHvs Kocaelispor1–0W

Kocaelispor

16 AugAvs Basaksehir0–2L
24 AugHvs Amedspor2–0W
29 AugAvs Konyaspor2–1W
6 SeptHvs Samsunspor1–0W
13 SeptAvs Galatasaray0–1L

Head to head

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

Model context

StatGalatasaray
(Home · 5 matches)
Kocaelispor
(Away · 5 matches)
BTTS rate80.0%60.0%
Over 2.5 rate80.0%60.0%
Clean sheet20.0%0.0%
Avg goals3.402.40

Home stats use Galatasaray's home record; away stats use Kocaelispor'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.