Danubio v Deportivo Maldonado — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Primera Division · Sunday, 19 April 2026. Final score 1–1 (half-time 1–0). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 47% 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 goals47%53%Under
Over 3.5 goals24%76%no pick
Both teams to score53%47%Yes

The result model puts Danubio at 49%, the draw at 26% and Deportivo Maldonado at 25%, from expected goals of 1.54 and 1.03.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Primera Division has produced over 2.5 goals in 43% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Danubio have 5 in 11 this season (2 of 5 at home), Deportivo Maldonado 6 in 11 (4 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 44% and 47%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 11 and 11 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 42% and 47%.

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 44%.

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 48%, from expected goals of 1.54 for Danubio and 1.03 for Deportivo Maldonado. Folding in 30% of that view gives 45%.

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 47%.

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
Danubio1145%36%55%
Deportivo Maldonado1155%27%55%

Head to head

3 Jun 24Danubio 1–1 Deportivo MaldonadoU2.5
25 Mar 23Danubio 4–0 Deportivo MaldonadoO2.5
15 Feb 22Deportivo Maldonado 1–2 DanubioO2.5

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