Ferro Carril Oeste v Almirante Brown — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Primera Nacional · Tuesday, 28 April 2026. Final score 0–1 (half-time 0–1). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 29% 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 goals29%71%Under
Over 3.5 goals10%90%no pick
Both teams to score39%61%No

The result model puts Ferro Carril Oeste at 34%, the draw at 34% and Almirante Brown at 32%, from expected goals of 0.9 and 0.86.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Primera Nacional has produced over 2.5 goals in 27% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Ferro Carril Oeste have 1 in 9 this season (0 of 3 at home), Almirante Brown 3 in 9 (2 of 5 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 23% and 29%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 9 and 9 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 25% and 28%.

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 27%.

Head to head. These sides have met 2 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 0%. 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 25%.

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 26%, from expected goals of 0.9 for Ferro Carril Oeste and 0.86 for Almirante Brown. Folding in 30% of that view gives 26%.

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 29%.

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
Ferro Carril Oeste911%0%33%
Almirante Brown933%0%33%

Head to head

11 Nov 23Almirante Brown 0–0 Ferro Carril OesteU2.5
5 Nov 23Ferro Carril Oeste 1–1 Almirante BrownU2.5
16 Aug 22Ferro Carril Oeste 1–0 Almirante BrownU2.5

More: Ferro Carril Oeste season stats · Almirante Brown season stats · Primera Nacional table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.