Gagra v Dila — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Erovnuli Liga · Sunday, 24 May 2026. Final score 2–0 (half-time 0–0). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 46% 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 goals46%54%Under
Over 3.5 goals23%77%no pick
Both teams to score48%52%No

The result model puts Gagra at 18%, the draw at 27% and Dila at 55%, from expected goals of 0.75 and 1.53.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Erovnuli Liga has produced over 2.5 goals in 49% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Gagra have 6 in 14 this season (4 of 7 at home), Dila 3 in 14 (2 of 7 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 47% and 39%.

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 50% and 46%.

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 48%.

Head to head. These sides have met 11 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 18%. 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 47%.

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 40%, from expected goals of 0.75 for Gagra and 1.53 for Dila. Folding in 30% of that view gives 45%.

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 46%.

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
Gagra1443%7%57%
Dila1421%0%29%

Head to head

7 Apr 26Dila 1–1 GagraU2.5
21 Oct 25Dila 5–0 GagraO2.5
10 Aug 25Gagra 0–1 DilaU2.5
28 Apr 25Dila 2–0 GagraU2.5
6 Mar 25Gagra 0–0 DilaU2.5
6 Oct 24Gagra 0–5 DilaO2.5

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