Samgurali v Torpedo Kutaisi — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Erovnuli Liga · Saturday, 13 June 2026. Final score 2–1 (half-time 1–0). 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 goals28%72%no pick
Both teams to score54%46%Yes

The result model puts Samgurali at 34%, the draw at 28% and Torpedo Kutaisi at 37%, from expected goals of 1.19 and 1.25.

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. Samgurali have 9 in 16 this season (4 of 8 at home), Torpedo Kutaisi 8 in 16 (3 of 8 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 52% and 50%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 16 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 53% 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 51%.

Head to head. These sides have met 11 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 55%. 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 51%.

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 44%, from expected goals of 1.19 for Samgurali and 1.25 for Torpedo Kutaisi. Folding in 30% of that view gives 49%.

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 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
Samgurali1656%38%63%
Torpedo Kutaisi1650%19%56%

Head to head

21 Apr 26Torpedo Kutaisi 6–1 SamguraliO2.5
22 Nov 25Samgurali 2–4 Torpedo KutaisiO2.5
13 Sept 25Torpedo Kutaisi 6–2 SamguraliO2.5
15 May 25Samgurali 0–1 Torpedo KutaisiU2.5
5 Apr 25Torpedo Kutaisi 1–1 SamguraliU2.5
1 Dec 24Samgurali 2–1 Torpedo KutaisiO2.5

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