Sarmiento Junin v Tigre — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Liga Profesional · Saturday, 25 April 2026. Final score 1–0 (half-time 1–0). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 34% 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 goals34%66%Under
Over 3.5 goals13%87%no pick
Both teams to score43%57%No

The result model puts Sarmiento Junin at 29%, the draw at 33% and Tigre at 38%, from expected goals of 0.82 and 1.

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. Sarmiento Junin have 6 in 14 this season (3 of 7 at home), Tigre 4 in 14 (2 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 36% and 31%.

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 32% and 31%.

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 31%.

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 27%, from expected goals of 0.82 for Sarmiento Junin and 1 for Tigre. Folding in 30% of that view gives 30%.

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 34%.

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
Sarmiento Junin1443%7%43%
Tigre1429%21%57%

Head to head

18 Aug 24Sarmiento Junin 0–0 TigreU2.5
14 Apr 23Tigre 1–0 Sarmiento JuninU2.5
4 Oct 22Sarmiento Junin 2–2 TigreO2.5

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