Quilmes v San Martin Tucuman — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Primera Nacional · Saturday, 24 October 2026 · 20:00. Our rating makes this 34% to go over 2.5 goals, so our lean is under. The Primera Nacional average is 31%.

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Our ratings for this match

MarketYesNoOur call
Over 2.5 goals34%66%Under
Over 3.5 goals13%87%no pick
Both teams to score40%60%No

The result model puts Quilmes at 50%, the draw at 30% and San Martin Tucuman at 20%, from expected goals of 1.29 and 0.69.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Primera Nacional has produced over 2.5 goals in 31% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Quilmes have 10 in 34 this season (4 of 17 at home), San Martin Tucuman 11 in 34 (4 of 17 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 30% and 32%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 34 and 34 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 30% and 31%.

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 30%.

Head to head. These sides have met 5 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 40%. 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 31%.

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 32%, from expected goals of 1.29 for Quilmes and 0.69 for San Martin Tucuman. Folding in 30% of that view gives 31%.

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 34%.

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
Quilmes3429%9%21%
San Martin Tucuman3432%15%44%

Head to head

7 Jun 26San Martin Tucuman 0–0 QuilmesU2.5
29 Sept 25San Martin Tucuman 1–1 QuilmesU2.5
27 May 25Quilmes 1–2 San Martin TucumanO2.5
23 Jul 24Quilmes 1–2 San Martin TucumanO2.5
5 Mar 24San Martin Tucuman 0–0 QuilmesU2.5
27 Apr 22Quilmes 2–0 San Martin TucumanU2.5

More: Quilmes season stats · San Martin Tucuman season stats · Primera Nacional table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.