Lanus v Central Cordoba de Santiago — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Liga Profesional · Friday, 24 April 2026. Final score 0–0 (half-time 0–0). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 37% 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 goals37%63%Under
Over 3.5 goals16%84%no pick
Both teams to score41%59%No

The result model puts Lanus at 63%, the draw at 24% and Central Cordoba de Santiago at 13%, from expected goals of 1.66 and 0.59.

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. Lanus have 6 in 14 this season (3 of 6 at home), Central Cordoba de Santiago 3 in 14 (1 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 36% and 29%.

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 31% and 34%.

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 33%.

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 39%, from expected goals of 1.66 for Lanus and 0.59 for Central Cordoba de Santiago. Folding in 30% of that view gives 35%.

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 37%.

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
Lanus1443%21%43%
Central Cordoba de Santiago1421%21%21%

Head to head

17 Aug 24Lanus 1–1 Central Cordoba de SantiagoU2.5
12 Apr 23Central Cordoba de Santiago 1–1 LanusU2.5
26 Aug 22Central Cordoba de Santiago 2–2 LanusO2.5
9 May 22Central Cordoba de Santiago 3–3 LanusO2.5

More: Lanus season stats · Central Cordoba de Santiago season stats · Liga Profesional table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.