Nueva Chicago v Chacarita Juniors — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Primera Nacional · Saturday, 13 June 2026. Final score 2–0 (half-time 0–0). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 31% 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 goals31%69%Under
Over 3.5 goals11%89%no pick
Both teams to score41%59%No

The result model puts Nueva Chicago at 32%, the draw at 33% and Chacarita Juniors at 35%, from expected goals of 0.9 and 0.97.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Primera Nacional has produced over 2.5 goals in 27% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Nueva Chicago have 5 in 14 this season (3 of 7 at home), Chacarita Juniors 4 in 16 (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 30% and 26%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 14 and 16 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 30% and 28%.

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 29%.

Head to head. These sides have met 2 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 27%.

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 29%, from expected goals of 0.9 for Nueva Chicago and 0.97 for Chacarita Juniors. Folding in 30% of that view gives 28%.

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 31%.

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
Nueva Chicago1436%14%43%
Chacarita Juniors1625%13%31%

Head to head

28 Jun 25Chacarita Juniors 0–0 Nueva ChicagoU2.5
24 Feb 25Nueva Chicago 1–1 Chacarita JuniorsU2.5
10 Apr 22Chacarita Juniors 3–1 Nueva ChicagoO2.5

More: Nueva Chicago season stats · Chacarita Juniors season stats · Primera Nacional table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.