Torpedo Kutaisi v Rustavi — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Erovnuli Liga · Tuesday, 5 May 2026. Final score 1–1 (half-time 0–0). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 50% 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 goals50%50%Over
Over 3.5 goals26%74%no pick
Both teams to score51%49%Yes

The result model puts Torpedo Kutaisi at 63%, the draw at 23% and Rustavi at 15%, from expected goals of 1.85 and 0.76.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Erovnuli Liga has produced over 2.5 goals in 50% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Torpedo Kutaisi have 5 in 10 this season (3 of 5 at home), Rustavi 5 in 10 (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 50% and 50%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 10 and 10 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 51% and 50%.

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 50%.

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 1.85 for Torpedo Kutaisi and 0.76 for Rustavi. Folding in 30% of that view gives 50%.

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
Torpedo Kutaisi1050%20%40%
Rustavi1050%0%50%

Head to head

7 Mar 26Rustavi 1–0 Torpedo KutaisiU2.5

More: Torpedo Kutaisi season stats · Rustavi season stats · Erovnuli Liga table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.