Necaxa v FC Juarez — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Liga MX · Saturday, 24 October 2026 · 02:00. Our rating makes this 58% to go over 2.5 goals, so our lean is over. The Liga MX average is 55%.

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Our ratings for this match

MarketYesNoOur call
Over 2.5 goals58%42%Over
Over 3.5 goals35%65%no pick
Both teams to score61%39%Yes

The result model puts Necaxa at 50%, the draw at 24% and FC Juarez at 26%, from expected goals of 1.76 and 1.19.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Liga MX has produced over 2.5 goals in 55% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Necaxa have 8 in 12 this season (5 of 7 at home), FC Juarez 7 in 12 (5 of 6 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 59% and 56%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 12 and 12 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 56% and 60%.

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 58%.

Head to head. These sides have met 5 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 80%. 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 59%.

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 57%, from expected goals of 1.76 for Necaxa and 1.19 for FC Juarez. Folding in 30% of that view gives 58%.

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
Necaxa1267%42%83%
FC Juarez1258%33%50%

Head to head

15 Feb 26FC Juarez 1–2 NecaxaO2.5
13 Sept 25Necaxa 1–1 FC JuarezU2.5
16 Apr 25FC Juarez 2–2 NecaxaO2.5
25 Aug 24Necaxa 3–0 FC JuarezO2.5
4 Feb 24FC Juarez 2–2 NecaxaO2.5
17 Sept 23Necaxa 1–1 FC JuarezU2.5

More: Necaxa season stats · FC Juarez season stats · Liga MX table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.