Neftchi Baku v Turan — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Premyer Liqa · Saturday, 24 October 2026 · 16:00. Our rating makes this 46% to go over 2.5 goals, so our lean is under. The Premyer Liqa average is 48%.

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Our ratings for this match

MarketYesNoOur call
Over 2.5 goals46%54%Under
Over 3.5 goals23%77%no pick
Both teams to score47%53%No

The result model puts Neftchi Baku at 45%, the draw at 29% and Turan at 25%, from expected goals of 1.29 and 0.89.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Premyer Liqa has produced over 2.5 goals in 48% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Neftchi Baku have 6 in 8 this season (2 of 3 at home), Turan 2 in 8 (1 of 4 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 55% and 42%.

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 52% and 46%.

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 49%.

Head to head. These sides have met 10 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 30%. 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 48%.

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 37%, from expected goals of 1.29 for Neftchi Baku and 0.89 for Turan. Folding in 30% of that view gives 44%.

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 46%.

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
Neftchi Baku875%63%50%
Turan825%13%25%

Head to head

9 Mar 26Neftchi Baku 0–1 TuranU2.5
28 Nov 25Turan 0–0 Neftchi BakuU2.5
29 Aug 25Neftchi Baku 0–1 TuranU2.5
10 May 25Turan 1–2 Neftchi BakuO2.5
10 Mar 25Neftchi Baku 1–1 TuranU2.5
21 Dec 24Turan 1–1 Neftchi BakuU2.5

More: Neftchi Baku season stats · Turan season stats · Premyer Liqa table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.