Alebrijes de Oaxaca v Dorados — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Liga de Expansión · Friday, 31 July 2026. Final score 0–2 (half-time 0–2). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 54% 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 goals54%46%Over
Over 3.5 goals34%66%no pick
Both teams to score55%45%Yes

The result model puts Alebrijes de Oaxaca at 56%, the draw at 22% and Dorados at 22%, from expected goals of 2.01 and 1.19.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Liga de Expansión has produced over 2.5 goals in 52% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Alebrijes de Oaxaca have 1 in 1 this season, Dorados 0 in 0. 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 54% and 52%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 1 and 0 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 53%.

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 53%.

Head to head. These sides have met 6 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 83%. 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 62%, from expected goals of 2.01 for Alebrijes de Oaxaca and 1.19 for Dorados. Folding in 30% of that view gives 57%.

Season opener. One of these sides has not played a league game yet. Openers run about 2.5 points under their league's norm, measured across 2,727 of them, so the rating is docked to 54%.

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
Alebrijes de Oaxaca1100%0%0%
Dorados0———

Head to head

27 Feb 26Alebrijes de Oaxaca 3–2 DoradosO2.5
21 Sept 25Dorados 1–2 Alebrijes de OaxacaO2.5
20 Apr 25Alebrijes de Oaxaca 2–2 DoradosO2.5
3 Nov 24Dorados 2–0 Alebrijes de OaxacaU2.5
3 Apr 24Dorados 1–3 Alebrijes de OaxacaO2.5
28 Sept 23Alebrijes de Oaxaca 4–0 DoradosO2.5

Things worth knowing

More: Alebrijes de Oaxaca season stats · Dorados season stats · Liga de Expansión table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.