Cadiz v Sporting Gijon — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Segunda · Sunday, 11 October 2026. Final score 0–1 (half-time 0–0). Before kick-off we rated it 53% under 2.5 goals — the match finished with 1, so that call landed. That rating was frozen into a version-controlled ledger before the game and has not been touched since.

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Our ratings for this match

MarketYesNoOur call
Over 2.5 goals49%51%Under
Over 3.5 goals26%74%no pick
Both teams to score52%48%Yes

The result model puts Cadiz at 35%, the draw at 29% and Sporting Gijon at 36%, from expected goals of 1.15 and 1.18.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Segunda has produced over 2.5 goals in 50% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Cadiz have 4 in 8 this season (2 of 5 at home), Sporting Gijon 2 in 8 (1 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 50% and 44%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 8 and 8 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 51% and 51%.

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 4 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 41%, from expected goals of 1.15 for Cadiz and 1.18 for Sporting Gijon. Folding in 30% of that view gives 48%.

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 49%.

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
Cadiz850%38%63%
Sporting Gijon825%25%25%

Head to head

19 Apr 26Sporting Gijon 3–0 CadizO2.5
9 Jan 26Cadiz 3–2 Sporting GijonO2.5
25 Apr 25Cadiz 1–0 Sporting GijonU2.5
2 Nov 24Sporting Gijon 2–0 CadizU2.5

More: Cadiz season stats · Sporting Gijon season stats · Segunda table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.