Liga Profesional · Saturday, 31 October 2026 · 00:15. Our rating makes this 42% to go over 2.5 goals, so our lean is under. The Liga Profesional average is 35%.
| Market | Yes | No | Our call |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 2.5 goals | 42% | 58% | Under |
| Over 3.5 goals | 19% | 81% | no pick |
| Both teams to score | 49% | 51% | No |
The result model puts Sarmiento Junin at 26%, the draw at 28% and Rosario Central at 46%, from expected goals of 0.97 and 1.4.
The league sets the starting point. Liga Profesional has produced over 2.5 goals in 35% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.
Each side's own record. Sarmiento Junin have 14 in 29 this season (5 of 15 at home), Rosario Central 15 in 32 (7 of 16 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 42% and 42%.
Last season still counts, briefly. With 29 and 32 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 39% and 40%.
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 39%.
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 39%.
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 42%, from expected goals of 0.97 for Sarmiento Junin and 1.4 for Rosario Central. Folding in 30% of that view gives 40%.
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 42%.
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.
| Team | Games | O2.5 | O3.5 | BTTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarmiento Junin | 29 | 48% | 24% | 55% |
| Rosario Central | 32 | 47% | 16% | 59% |
Our numbers give this match a 62% chance of at least one goal before half-time and 21% of two or more. The Liga Profesional rates are 59% and 21%. After the break: 72% for a goal and 35% for two or more (league 71% and 34%). Sarmiento Junin's last 50 games had a first-half goal 68% of the time and a second-half goal 80%; Rosario Central's last 50, 64% and 70%. Team form says less about a single half than about a full match, so these numbers stay close to the league's.
Every match ranked the same way: first half goals today · second half goals today · tomorrow.
More: Sarmiento Junin season stats · Rosario Central season stats · Liga Profesional table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.