Sportivo Ameliano v Sportivo Luqueno — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Primera Division · Sunday, 5 April 2026. Final score 2–2 (half-time 1–1). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 39% for over 2.5 goals. This match is older than our frozen ratings ledger, which keeps 30 days, so that figure is a reconstruction from pre-match data rather than a number we published at the time — a distinction worth making, because only the frozen ones prove what we actually said beforehand.

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Our ratings for this match

MarketYesNoOur call
Over 2.5 goals39%61%Under
Over 3.5 goals19%81%no pick
Both teams to score48%52%No

The result model puts Sportivo Ameliano at 58%, the draw at 26% and Sportivo Luqueno at 16%, from expected goals of 1.54 and 0.66.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Primera Division has produced over 2.5 goals in 38% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Sportivo Ameliano have 4 in 14 this season (2 of 7 at home), Sportivo Luqueno 6 in 14 (3 of 7 away). Those records are pulled toward the league rate with the weight of about 24 matches — enough that two or three unusual games cannot swing a rating — giving 34% and 40%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 14 and 14 games played this season, last season's rates are still blended in and fade out entirely by game 40 — the point at which our testing showed they stop adding accuracy. A single season is part luck, so each club's record is first pulled toward the league average by 34 games' weight. That moves the two figures to 35% and 37%.

The mix. Weighted 40% home side, 40% away side and 20% league — the split that beat every alternative across 30,582 matches of testing — that gives 36%.

Head to head. These sides have met 6 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 33%. That nudges the number 5% of the way toward the head-to-head pattern — deliberately small, because fixtures change more than reputations do — landing on 36%.

Goal expectation. Separately a Poisson model built from attack and defence strength — using real expected-goals data where the league has it — puts this match at 38%, from expected goals of 1.54 for Sportivo Ameliano and 0.66 for Sportivo Luqueno. Folding in 30% of that view gives 37%.

Calibration. Tested against 97,729 past matches, our ratings below 55% have run consistently too pessimistic — a figure in the high 30s, for instance, has come in about four points higher. So ratings in that range are lifted part-way back, giving 39%.

This breakdown is generated from the same inputs the rating uses, so it cannot describe a calculation we did not perform. The full model is set out in the methodology.

Season form

TeamGamesO2.5O3.5BTTS
Sportivo Ameliano1429%7%43%
Sportivo Luqueno1443%21%57%

Head to head

6 Feb 26Sportivo Luqueno 0–1 Sportivo AmelianoU2.5
2 Jun 25Sportivo Luqueno 0–0 Sportivo AmelianoU2.5
29 Mar 25Sportivo Ameliano 2–2 Sportivo LuquenoO2.5
12 May 24Sportivo Luqueno 0–0 Sportivo AmelianoU2.5
16 Feb 24Sportivo Ameliano 1–3 Sportivo LuquenoO2.5
1 May 23Sportivo Ameliano 2–0 Sportivo LuquenoU2.5

More: Sportivo Ameliano season stats · Sportivo Luqueno season stats · Primera Division table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.