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

Liga de Expansión · Sunday, 6 September 2026. Final score 4–1 (half-time 2–0). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 56% 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 goals56%44%Over
Over 3.5 goals34%66%no pick
Both teams to score57%43%Yes

The result model puts Monarcas at 57%, the draw at 22% and Alebrijes de Oaxaca at 21%, from expected goals of 2.05 and 1.16.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Liga de Expansión has produced over 2.5 goals in 53% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Monarcas have 4 in 6 this season (3 of 3 at home), Alebrijes de Oaxaca 2 in 6 (2 of 3 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 56% and 49%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 6 and 6 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 52%.

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 52%.

Head to head. These sides have met 6 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 67%. 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 53%.

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 2.05 for Monarcas and 1.16 for Alebrijes de Oaxaca. Folding in 30% of that view gives 56%.

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
Monarcas667%50%67%
Alebrijes de Oaxaca633%0%33%

Head to head

17 Jan 26Alebrijes de Oaxaca 0–3 MonarcasO2.5
9 Aug 25Monarcas 3–1 Alebrijes de OaxacaO2.5
9 Feb 25Monarcas 2–1 Alebrijes de OaxacaO2.5
25 Aug 24Alebrijes de Oaxaca 1–1 MonarcasU2.5
14 Apr 24Alebrijes de Oaxaca 3–3 MonarcasO2.5
5 Oct 23Monarcas 0–0 Alebrijes de OaxacaU2.5

More: Monarcas season stats · Alebrijes de Oaxaca 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.