Athletic Club vs Ponte Preta — Serie B 2026
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on xG from last 11+ matches
Athletic Club45%
Ponte Preta27%✓ Correct in 50 of 100 matches — 5 more than always backing the home side
The model picks a winner (home or away) for each finished match using only pre-kickoff data, then checks it against the real result: 50.2% correct across 585,598 matches, vs 44.5% for always backing the home side.
Home picks 50.5% correct · Away picks 49.3% correct
Football matches only. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Expected goals in this match
What is xG?
Every shot is scored 0–1 by how likely it is to be a goal from that spot — a chance in the middle of the box ≈ 0.4, a long shot from a tight angle ≈ 0.03, a penalty ≈ 0.76. Add them up over a match and that is the xG.
The scoreline can lie: you can win 1-0 on a fluke while creating half the chances. xG shows who was really closer to scoring — and over a season it predicts results better than goals alone.
Athletic Club creates 38% more chances
Season form · 16 home / 11 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Under59
- Over41
Fewer than 3 goals likely
Both teams score
- No54
- Yes46
One side may not score
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Athletic Club ↓
Most likely 1–0 (13%) · grid covers 98% of scorelines
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Combos
Model probabilities, not odds. For information only.
How is this calculated?
Every number below comes from this match — nothing is made up.
Recent form of each side
Athletic Club at home — creates 1.08, concedes 1.00 · 16 matches
Ponte Preta away — creates 0.96, concedes 1.62 · 11 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Athletic Club attack 1.08 + Ponte Preta defence 1.62 → ÷2 → 1.35
Ponte Preta attack 0.96 + Athletic Club defence 1.00 → ÷2 → 0.98
Each side's attack is blended with the other's defence, then averaged.
Chance of every scoreline
From those two numbers a Poisson distribution gives the probability of each exact score — the grid shown above.
The answer to "why 45%?"
Athletic Club at 45% is simply the biggest of the three — that is the pick.
What the model can't see
It reads only the stats of recent matches. It knows nothing about:
- injuries & suspensions
- the matchday lineup
- motivation — cup, relegation, a title race
- weather & pitch condition
- in-game coaching decisions
So 45% does not mean "Athletic Club will win" — it means "on the available stats, this is the most likely result."
Statistical model based on expected goals (xG). For informational purposes only.
Player of the match
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1 previous meeting · small sample
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P = Played · W = Won · D = Drawn · L = Lost · GF = Goals for · GA = Goals against · GD = Goal difference · Pts = Points
Possession
Shots
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Statistics
Athletic Club host Ponte Preta on Sunday, 22 March 2026 at 21:00. The match is part of the Serie B 2026/2027 season.
Serie B: Athletic Club 2–1 Ponte Preta
Athletic Club beat Ponte Preta 2-1 in Serie B on March 22, 2026.
Goals: Ian Luccas (27'), Bryan Borges (45'), Jota (45').
Ponte Preta controlled possession (56%) and registered 10 shots to 17.
The match was played at Estádio Joaquim Portugal in Minas Gerais.