Girona vs Albacete
Our model puts a Girona win at 62.6% in this Segunda Division fixture — the clearest call on this fixture. Expected goals run 1.95 to 0.85.
What this probability has been worth
A number is worth what it has been worth. Across 1,432 predictions published before kick-off and scored against the result afterwards, the calls we priced between 55% and 65% came in 50.8% of the time — 264 fixtures in that band. That is 8.8 points below what the model claimed, so read this figure as optimistic: in this range it has been saying more than it could support. We publish the gap rather than quietly shading the number, because a record that only shows its good bands is not a record.
The ratings gap
Girona carry a rating of 1627 against 1523 for Albacete, a gap of 104 points. On our scale that is the difference between a side that controls most of its fixtures and one that has to earn each of them. It is also the single largest input into the probabilities above.
Attack against defence
The single rating hides where the mismatch actually sits. Splitting it, Girona's attack should find room against Albacete's defence, by 123 points. That is the mechanism behind the expected-goals line rather than a separate opinion about it.
How often they shoot
Girona take 15 shots a match against an average of 11.8. Volume like that usually means territory rather than precision, and it is why a side can dominate a match and still not win it.
A high-scoring home side
One model here does nothing but estimate how likely the home side is to score four goals or more, and on this fixture it reads 60%. Across our settled fixtures that happens about 8% of the time, so this is well above ordinary. It says nothing about who wins — a side can score four and still be caught — but a match where one team is expected to run up a total is one where the scoreline is much harder to call than the result.
