UTC Cajamarca v ADT — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Primera Division · Saturday, 8 August 2026. Final score 1–1 (half-time 0–0). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 48% 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 goals48%52%Under
Over 3.5 goals26%74%no pick
Both teams to score51%49%Yes

The result model puts UTC Cajamarca at 38%, the draw at 31% and ADT at 31%, from expected goals of 1.13 and 0.99.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Primera Division has produced over 2.5 goals in 51% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. UTC Cajamarca have 11 in 20 this season (3 of 9 at home), ADT 9 in 20 (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 53% and 48%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 20 and 20 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 52% and 50%.

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 6 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 50%. 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 36%, from expected goals of 1.13 for UTC Cajamarca and 0.99 for ADT. Folding in 30% of that view gives 46%.

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 48%.

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
UTC Cajamarca2055%40%60%
ADT2045%30%45%

Head to head

22 Feb 26ADT 2–2 UTC CajamarcaO2.5
16 Sept 25ADT 3–1 UTC CajamarcaO2.5
20 Apr 25UTC Cajamarca 0–1 ADTU2.5
20 Aug 24UTC Cajamarca 1–1 ADTU2.5
16 Mar 24ADT 2–1 UTC CajamarcaO2.5
28 Aug 23ADT 0–0 UTC CajamarcaU2.5

More: UTC Cajamarca season stats · ADT season stats · Primera Division table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.