Austria vs Israel
Our model puts an Austria win at 67.4% in this Int: UEFA Nations League fixture — the clearest call on this fixture. Expected goals run 2.03 to 0.72.
The ratings gap
Austria carry a rating of 1673 against 1541 for Israel, a gap of 133 points. On our scale that is the difference between a side that controls most of its fixtures and one that has to earn each of them. It is also the single largest input into the probabilities above.
Attack against defence
The single rating hides where the mismatch actually sits. Splitting it, Austria's attack should find room against Israel's defence, by 198 points. That is the mechanism behind the expected-goals line rather than a separate opinion about it.
A high-scoring home side
One model here does nothing but estimate how likely the home side is to score four goals or more, and on this fixture it reads 64.2%. Across our settled fixtures that happens about 8% of the time, so this is well above ordinary. It says nothing about who wins — a side can score four and still be caught — but a match where one team is expected to run up a total is one where the scoreline is much harder to call than the result.
