Gimnasia L.P. v Tigre — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Liga Profesional · Saturday, 5 September 2026. Final score 2–1 (half-time 1–0). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 37% 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 goals37%63%Under
Over 3.5 goals16%84%no pick
Both teams to score46%54%No

The result model puts Gimnasia L.P. at 29%, the draw at 31% and Tigre at 40%, from expected goals of 0.9 and 1.12.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Liga Profesional has produced over 2.5 goals in 34% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Gimnasia L.P. have 13 in 25 this season (6 of 11 at home), Tigre 6 in 23 (3 of 11 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 43% and 30%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 25 and 23 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 39% and 30%.

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 34%.

Head to head. These sides have met 2 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 35%.

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 33%, from expected goals of 0.9 for Gimnasia L.P. and 1.12 for Tigre. Folding in 30% of that view gives 35%.

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 37%.

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
Gimnasia L.P.2552%20%44%
Tigre2326%17%48%

Head to head

2 Mar 26Tigre 2–2 Gimnasia L.P.O2.5
15 Sept 24Tigre 1–1 Gimnasia L.P.U2.5
29 Apr 23Gimnasia L.P. 1–1 TigreU2.5
25 Sept 22Gimnasia L.P. 0–1 TigreU2.5

More: Gimnasia L.P. season stats · Tigre season stats · Liga Profesional table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.