Argentinos JRS v Atletico Tucuman — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Liga Profesional · Sunday, 19 April 2026. Final score 1–0 (half-time 0–0). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 43% 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 goals43%57%Under
Over 3.5 goals20%80%no pick
Both teams to score44%56%No

The result model puts Argentinos JRS at 77%, the draw at 16% and Atletico Tucuman at 6%, from expected goals of 2.27 and 0.5.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Liga Profesional has produced over 2.5 goals in 33% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Argentinos JRS have 4 in 13 this season (2 of 8 at home), Atletico Tucuman 8 in 13 (6 of 6 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 32% and 43%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 13 and 13 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 33% and 41%.

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 2 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 50%. 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 37%.

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 52%, from expected goals of 2.27 for Argentinos JRS and 0.5 for Atletico Tucuman. Folding in 30% of that view gives 41%.

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 43%.

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
Argentinos JRS1331%15%46%
Atletico Tucuman1362%15%62%

Head to head

30 Sept 24Argentinos JRS 0–0 Atletico TucumanU2.5
13 May 23Atletico Tucuman 1–2 Argentinos JRSO2.5
20 Sept 22Argentinos JRS 1–2 Atletico TucumanO2.5
21 Apr 22Atletico Tucuman 2–4 Argentinos JRSO2.5

More: Argentinos JRS season stats · Atletico Tucuman season stats · Liga Profesional table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.