Temperley v Gimnasia Y Tiro — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Primera Nacional · Sunday, 2 August 2026. Final score 1–2 (half-time 0–2). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 33% 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 goals33%67%Under
Over 3.5 goals13%87%no pick
Both teams to score43%57%No

The result model puts Temperley at 50%, the draw at 28% and Gimnasia Y Tiro at 21%, from expected goals of 1.38 and 0.78.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Primera Nacional has produced over 2.5 goals in 29% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Temperley have 6 in 22 this season (5 of 10 at home), Gimnasia Y Tiro 6 in 21 (4 of 9 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 28% and 29%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 22 and 21 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 27% 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 28%.

Head to head. These sides have met 4 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 26%.

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 37%, from expected goals of 1.38 for Temperley and 0.78 for Gimnasia Y Tiro. Folding in 30% of that view gives 29%.

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 33%.

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
Temperley2227%14%41%
Gimnasia Y Tiro2129%10%52%

Head to head

15 Mar 26Gimnasia Y Tiro 0–0 TemperleyU2.5
12 Oct 25Gimnasia Y Tiro 2–0 TemperleyU2.5
5 Oct 24Temperley 1–1 Gimnasia Y TiroU2.5
17 May 24Gimnasia Y Tiro 0–2 TemperleyU2.5

More: Temperley season stats · Gimnasia Y Tiro season stats · Primera Nacional table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.