Bucaramanga v Chico — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Primera A · Monday, 13 April 2026. Final score 5–0 (half-time 2–0). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 44% 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 goals44%56%Under
Over 3.5 goals21%79%no pick
Both teams to score45%55%No

The result model puts Bucaramanga at 73%, the draw at 19% and Chico at 7%, from expected goals of 1.97 and 0.45.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Primera A has produced over 2.5 goals in 44% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Bucaramanga have 7 in 15 this season (4 of 7 at home), Chico 6 in 14 (4 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 45% and 43%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 15 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 44% and 40%.

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 42%.

Head to head. These sides have met 6 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 17%. 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 41%.

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 44%, from expected goals of 1.97 for Bucaramanga and 0.45 for Chico. Folding in 30% of that view gives 42%.

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 44%.

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
Bucaramanga1547%13%47%
Chico1443%14%29%

Head to head

13 Jul 25Bucaramanga 1–1 ChicoU2.5
24 Jan 25Chico 1–0 BucaramangaU2.5
6 Nov 24Chico 1–1 BucaramangaU2.5
20 Apr 24Bucaramanga 2–3 ChicoO2.5
17 Oct 23Bucaramanga 1–0 ChicoU2.5
1 May 23Chico 0–0 BucaramangaU2.5

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