Chacarita Juniors v Tristan Suarez — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Primera Nacional · Sunday, 21 June 2026. Final score 0–0 (half-time 0–0). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 30% 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 goals30%70%Under
Over 3.5 goals10%90%no pick
Both teams to score39%61%No

The result model puts Chacarita Juniors at 26%, the draw at 36% and Tristan Suarez at 38%, from expected goals of 0.71 and 0.92.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Primera Nacional has produced over 2.5 goals in 28% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Chacarita Juniors have 4 in 17 this season (2 of 9 at home), Tristan Suarez 5 in 17 (1 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 26% and 29%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 17 and 17 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 28% and 27%.

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 28%.

Head to head. These sides have met 3 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 33%. 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 28%.

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 22%, from expected goals of 0.71 for Chacarita Juniors and 0.92 for Tristan Suarez. Folding in 30% of that view gives 26%.

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 30%.

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
Chacarita Juniors1724%12%29%
Tristan Suarez1729%12%35%

Head to head

21 Sept 24Tristan Suarez 0–0 Chacarita JuniorsU2.5
5 May 24Chacarita Juniors 1–2 Tristan SuarezO2.5
5 Aug 23Chacarita Juniors 1–1 Tristan SuarezU2.5
2 Apr 23Tristan Suarez 1–3 Chacarita JuniorsO2.5
11 Jun 22Tristan Suarez 3–2 Chacarita JuniorsO2.5

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