Almagro v Gimnasia Jujuy — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Primera Nacional · Sunday, 6 September 2026. Final score 1–2 (half-time 1–1). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 34% 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 goals34%66%Under
Over 3.5 goals13%87%no pick
Both teams to score43%57%No

The result model puts Almagro at 37%, the draw at 32% and Gimnasia Jujuy at 31%, from expected goals of 1.03 and 0.92.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Primera Nacional has produced over 2.5 goals in 30% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Almagro have 6 in 27 this season (2 of 13 at home), Gimnasia Jujuy 14 in 27 (8 of 13 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 41%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 27 and 27 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 26% and 36%.

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 31%.

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 31%, from expected goals of 1.03 for Almagro and 0.92 for Gimnasia Jujuy. Folding in 30% of that view gives 31%.

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 34%.

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
Almagro2722%7%33%
Gimnasia Jujuy2752%19%59%

Head to head

19 Apr 26Gimnasia Jujuy 6–1 AlmagroO2.5
23 Jul 22Almagro 2–0 Gimnasia JujuyU2.5

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