Huracan v Argentinos JRS — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Liga Profesional · Tuesday, 28 April 2026. Final score 1–2 (half-time 1–1). 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 goals14%86%no pick
Both teams to score44%56%No

The result model puts Huracan at 39%, the draw at 31% and Argentinos JRS at 30%, from expected goals of 1.14 and 0.95.

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. Huracan have 5 in 14 this season (4 of 7 at home), Argentinos JRS 4 in 14 (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 34% 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 29% and 32%.

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%.

Head to head. These sides have met 3 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 29%.

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 35%, from expected goals of 1.14 for Huracan and 0.95 for Argentinos JRS. Folding in 30% of that view gives 31%.

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
Huracan1436%14%50%
Argentinos JRS1429%14%43%

Head to head

16 Aug 25Huracan 1–0 Argentinos JRSU2.5
12 Feb 25Argentinos JRS 1–1 HuracanU2.5
24 Aug 24Argentinos JRS 0–0 HuracanU2.5
16 Apr 23Huracan 0–0 Argentinos JRSU2.5
10 Oct 22Argentinos JRS 1–1 HuracanU2.5

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