St Ives Town 2-2 Royston Town — Result, Statistics & Match Review — England - Non League Premier, 3 Jan 2026

📅03/01/2026 · 🕒18:00 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 2-2 2nd Score 2-1
MODEL iddaakolik · Our Predictions
Probability per market · Global + League + Team blend
⏱ Odds and predictions are pre-match — updates freeze from ~20 minutes before kick-off.
Match Result
Home
50%
1.86
Draw
28%
3.54
Away
22%
3.48
Under/Over 2.5
Under 2.5
47%
2.0
Over 2.5
53%
1.74
Both Teams to Score
Yes
52%
1.66
No
48%
2.09
Total Goals
0-1 Goal
26%
2-3 Goals
38%
4-5 Goals
24%
6+ Goals
12%
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
27%
1/2
4%
1/X
9%
X/1
16%
X/2
5%
X/X
11%
2/1
7%
2/2
13%
2/X
8%
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
50%
Home Win
50%
+0.3pp
28%
Draw
25%
+2.9pp
22%
Away Win
25%
-3.1pp
47%
Under 2.5
46%
+1.0pp
53%
Over 2.5
54%
-1.0pp
52%
BTTS Yes
56%
-3.9pp
48%
BTTS No
44%
+3.9pp
gold — our model green — our served pick grey — EU market (margin removed: each group sums to 100%)
Edge (pp): green = we see more probability than the market · gold = essentially even (±0.5pp) · red = we see less. The Decision above outranks any single row: the engine backs well-supported edges, not merely big ones.
PREVIEW Match Preview Engine
iddaakolik Team Elo · Form · Goals signals
HOME St Ives Town EU Bookmakers 54%
Head to Head
AWAY Royston Town EU Bookmakers 29%
-10% / -11% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations -2% / -9%
1.78/1.41 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 1.01/1.55
+4% / -13% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) -21% / +3%
50% Ball Possession 50%
11 Total Shots 11
5 Shots on Target 5
5 Corners 5
398 · 80% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 276 · 77%
Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area
Crosses
1.8 Yellow Cards 2.0
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME St Ives Town
3W-1D-2L
AWAY Royston Town
1.67 Avg Goals (FT) 1.33
52% Ball Possession 48%
16 Total Shots 14
7 Shots on Target 5
1 Corners 4
2 Yellow Cards 4
21.04.2025 Royston Town Royston Town 0-0 HT 0-0 St Ives Town St Ives Town İNGNLP
26.12.2024 St Ives Town St Ives Town 0-1 HT 0-1 Royston Town Royston Town İNGNLP
02.03.2024 Royston Town Royston Town 2-4 HT 0-2 St Ives Town St Ives Town İNGNLP
23.10.2023 St Ives Town St Ives Town 3-2 HT 1-2 Royston Town Royston Town İNGNLP
10.04.2023 Royston Town Royston Town 1-3 HT 0-0 St Ives Town St Ives Town İNGNLP
26.12.2022 St Ives Town St Ives Town 0-2 HT 0-0 Royston Town Royston Town İNGNLP
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME St Ives Town
2-2
AWAY Royston Town
52% Ball Possession 48%
8 Total Shots 7
6 Shots on Target 4
4 Corners 2
2 Yellow Cards 1
POST-MATCH St Ives Town vs Royston Town
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

St Ives Town and Royston Town shared the points in a 2-2 draw. Half-time: 1-2.

Our pre-match lean was St Ives Town at 50%, but a lead that slim is closer to a coin-flip than a call — and it fell the other way.

Over 2.5 goals sat near a coin-flip at 53% and both teams to score was close to even at 52%.

On the day, St Ives Town had 52% of the ball to Royston Town's 48%, shots finished 8-7.

For context: across their last 6 meetings in our records, St Ives Town had the better of it with 3 wins, 1 drawn. Those games averaged 1.67 goals for St Ives Town and 1.33 for Royston Town.

What was the final score of St Ives Town vs Royston Town?

St Ives Town 2-2 Royston Town in the England - Non League Premier on 03/01/2026. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for St Ives Town vs Royston Town?

Before kick-off our model rated a St Ives Town win the most likely single outcome at about 50%, with the full match-result split St Ives Town 50%, draw 28%, Royston Town 22%. The final score 2-2 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on Over 2.5, BTTS Yes — while Match Result (St Ives Town) went the other way.

✗ Match Result (St Ives Town) ✓ Over 2.5 ✓ BTTS Yes
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