Rustavi v Dinamo Tbilisi — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Erovnuli Liga · Friday, 23 October 2026 · 17:00. Our rating makes this 50% to go over 2.5 goals, so our lean is under. The Erovnuli Liga average is 51%.

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Our ratings for this match

MarketYesNoOur call
Over 2.5 goals50%50%Under
Over 3.5 goals24%76%no pick
Both teams to score52%48%Yes

The result model puts Rustavi at 29%, the draw at 28% and Dinamo Tbilisi at 42%, from expected goals of 1.05 and 1.33.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Erovnuli Liga 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. Rustavi have 12 in 29 this season (7 of 14 at home), Dinamo Tbilisi 18 in 29 (9 of 14 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 46% and 57%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 29 and 29 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 46% and 55%.

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 50%.

Head to head. These sides have met 3 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 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 43%, from expected goals of 1.05 for Rustavi and 1.33 for Dinamo Tbilisi. Folding in 30% of that view gives 49%.

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 50%.

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
Rustavi2941%7%45%
Dinamo Tbilisi2962%28%62%

Head to head

15 Aug 26Dinamo Tbilisi 0–3 RustaviO2.5
11 May 26Rustavi 2–3 Dinamo TbilisiO2.5
11 Mar 26Dinamo Tbilisi 0–0 RustaviU2.5

More: Rustavi season stats · Dinamo Tbilisi season stats · Erovnuli Liga table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.