Flamengo W v Ferroviaria W — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Brasileirao (W) · Monday, 11 May 2026. Final score 1–1 (half-time 0–0). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 57% 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 goals57%43%Over
Over 3.5 goals34%66%no pick
Both teams to score58%42%Yes

The result model puts Flamengo W at 58%, the draw at 22% and Ferroviaria W at 20%, from expected goals of 2.02 and 1.12.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Brasileirao (W) has produced over 2.5 goals in 56% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Flamengo W have 5 in 9 this season (3 of 4 at home), Ferroviaria W 4 in 9 (1 of 4 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 56% and 53%.

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 58% and 51%.

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 55%.

Head to head. These sides have met 2 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 50%. 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 55%.

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 61%, from expected goals of 2.02 for Flamengo W and 1.12 for Ferroviaria W. Folding in 30% of that view gives 57%.

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
Flamengo W956%44%89%
Ferroviaria W944%22%56%

Head to head

4 May 25Ferroviaria W 1–2 Flamengo WO2.5
21 Aug 24Flamengo W 1–0 Ferroviaria WU2.5
7 May 23Ferroviaria W 1–2 Flamengo WO2.5
21 Mar 22Ferroviaria W 1–1 Flamengo WU2.5

More: Flamengo W season stats · Ferroviaria W season stats · Brasileirao (W) table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.