Sporting Cristal v ADT — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Primera Division · Sunday, 24 May 2026. Final score 2–1 (half-time 0–1). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 55% 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 goals55%45%Over
Over 3.5 goals34%66%no pick
Both teams to score56%44%Yes

The result model puts Sporting Cristal at 59%, the draw at 22% and ADT at 19%, from expected goals of 2.02 and 1.05.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Primera Division has produced over 2.5 goals in 51% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Sporting Cristal have 11 in 15 this season (7 of 7 at home), ADT 6 in 15 (3 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 60% and 47%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 15 and 15 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 55% and 49%.

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 52%.

Head to head. These sides have met 5 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 80%. 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 54%.

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 59%, from expected goals of 2.02 for Sporting Cristal and 1.05 for ADT. Folding in 30% of that view gives 55%.

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
Sporting Cristal1573%47%80%
ADT1540%40%40%

Head to head

4 Oct 25ADT 3–2 Sporting CristalO2.5
17 May 25Sporting Cristal 2–1 ADTO2.5
12 Jul 24ADT 3–1 Sporting CristalO2.5
27 Jan 24Sporting Cristal 6–2 ADTO2.5
6 Aug 23ADT 1–1 Sporting CristalU2.5
4 Mar 23Sporting Cristal 0–0 ADTU2.5

More: Sporting Cristal season stats · ADT season stats · Primera Division table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.