Liga de Expansión · Sunday, 1 November 2026 · 01:00 UK time. Our rating makes this 50% to go over 2.5 goals, so our lean is over. The Liga de Expansión average is 55%.
Open this match in the app →| Market | Yes | No | Our call |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 2.5 goals | 50% | 50% | Over |
| Over 3.5 goals | 29% | 71% | no pick |
| Both teams to score | 51% | 49% | Yes |
The result model puts Cancún at 64%, the draw at 23% and CDS Tampico Madero at 12%, from expected goals of 1.77 and 0.62.
The league sets the starting point. Liga de Expansión 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. Cancún have 8 in 14 this season (3 of 7 at home), CDS Tampico Madero 7 in 13 (4 of 7 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 56% and 54%.
Last season still counts, briefly. With 14 and 13 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 53% and 49%.
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 52%.
Head to head. These sides have met 6 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 52%.
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 1.77 for Cancún and 0.62 for CDS Tampico Madero. 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.
| Team | Games | O2.5 | O3.5 | BTTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cancún | 14 | 57% | 43% | 50% |
| CDS Tampico Madero | 13 | 54% | 31% | 46% |
Our numbers give this match a 73% chance of at least one goal before half-time and 35% of two or more. The Liga de Expansión rates, last season and this season combined, are 75% and 37% (this season so far: 76% with a first-half goal, from 106 games). After the break: 79% for a goal and 47% for two or more (league 81% and 48%). Cancún's last 50 games had a first-half goal 76% of the time and a second-half goal 76%; CDS Tampico Madero's last 50, 66% and 76%. A goal in both halves: 58% (league 62%). Highest-scoring half: second 44%, first 29%, level 27% — close to the league's usual split, because team form says little about which half is busier. 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 · goal in both halves today · tomorrow.
More: Cancún season stats · CDS Tampico Madero season stats · Liga de Expansión table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.