Academia Puerto Cabello 1-2 Estudiantes De Merida — Result, Statistics & Match Review — Venezuela - Premier League, 28 Feb 2026

📅28/02/2026 · 🕒02:30 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 1-0 2nd Score 2-0
MODEL iddaakolik · Our Predictions
Authentic Intelligence™ · Probability per market
⏱ Odds and predictions are pre-match — updates freeze from ~20 minutes before kick-off.
Match Result
Home Pick
56%
1.57
Draw
23%
3.64
Away
21%
5.27
Under/Over 2.5
Under
51%
1.62
Over
49%
2.1
Both Teams to Score
Yes
50%
2.31
No
50%
1.54
Total Goals
0-1
32%
2-3
36%
4-5
21%
6+
11%
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
26%
1/2
5%
1/X
5%
X/1
22%
X/2
7%
X/X
13%
2/1
8%
2/2
9%
2/X
5%
STRENGTH — green bars inside a box show the pattern support behind that selection, from Good · Strong · Very strong to Great — the deeper the historical record, the fuller the bar; informational, not a sized bet.
Our Pick = the most likely outcome, not a value bet.
PREVIEW Match Preview Engine
iddaakolik model signals — not real match figures
HOME Academia Puerto Cabello The Market 64%
Head to Head
AWAY Estudiantes De Merida The Market 19%
Average Season vs Marketall history · vs bookmaker expectation Average
Average Recent Form vs Marketlatest matches · vs bookmaker expectation Average
1.60 Expected Goals Scoredper match · higher is better 1.03
0.84 Expected Goals Concededper match · lower is better 1.54
Average Attackvs comparable teams Great
Strong Defensevs comparable teams Weak
57% Ball Possession 43%
16 Total Shots 8
5 Shots on Target 3
6 Corners 3
343 · 81% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 250 · 75%
22.2 Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area 14.9
23.3 Crosses 15.5
2.7 Yellow Cards 3.4
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Academia Puerto Cabello
3W-0D-3L
AWAY Estudiantes De Merida
1.33 Avg Goals (FT) 1.17
1.45 xG 1.21
54% Ball Possession 46%
16 Total Shots 10
4 Shots on Target 4
6 Corners 3
300 Passes 236
80% Pass Accuracy 73%
23 Box Touches 11
22 Crosses 14
3 Yellow Cards 3
28.09.2025 Academia Puerto Cabello Academia Puerto Cabello 1-2 HT 1-1 Estudiantes De Merida Estudiantes De Merida VEN
19.04.2025 Estudiantes De Merida Estudiantes De Merida 1-0 HT 1-0 Academia Puerto Cabello Academia Puerto Cabello VEN
08.08.2024 Estudiantes De Merida Estudiantes De Merida 2-1 HT 0-0 Academia Puerto Cabello Academia Puerto Cabello VEN
18.02.2024 Academia Puerto Cabello Academia Puerto Cabello 2-1 HT 1-0 Estudiantes De Merida Estudiantes De Merida VEN
30.09.2023 Academia Puerto Cabello Academia Puerto Cabello 1-0 HT 1-0 Estudiantes De Merida Estudiantes De Merida VEN
12.02.2023 Estudiantes De Merida Estudiantes De Merida 1-3 HT 0-1 Academia Puerto Cabello Academia Puerto Cabello VEN
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Academia Puerto Cabello
1-2
AWAY Estudiantes De Merida
0.85 xG 1.05
66% Ball Possession 34%
10 Total Shots 5
5 Shots on Target 2
12 Corners 5
417 Passes 187
86% Pass Accuracy 75%
17 Box Touches 14
34 Crosses 11
4 Yellow Cards 2
REVIEW Academia Puerto Cabello vs Estudiantes De Merida
IDDAAKOLIK POST-MATCH REVIEW

Estudiantes De Merida edged past Academia Puerto Cabello 2-1 on their travels. The game was level at 1-1 at the break, so the decisive goals came after it.

By our pre-match numbers this was an upset: we had Academia Puerto Cabello at 56% and the game still went the other way. Single results are noisy — probabilities earn their keep across thousands of matches, not one. For what it's worth, the market was even more convinced — 1.57, about 64% — so the upset beat the price as well as us.

Neither goals market gave much away — over 2.5 sat at 49% and both teams to score at 50%. If anything the market was more convinced: the BTTS-no price stood at 1.54, roughly 65%.

On the day, Academia Puerto Cabello had 66% of the ball to Estudiantes De Merida's 34%, shots finished 10-5, expected goals 0.85 to 1.05.

Coming into the game, across their last 6 meetings in our records, honours were even at 3 apiece. Those games averaged 1.33 goals for Academia Puerto Cabello and 1.17 for Estudiantes De Merida.

Academia Puerto Cabello vs Estudiantes De Merida Result & Final Score

Academia Puerto Cabello 1-2 Estudiantes De Merida in the Venezuela - Premier League on 28/02/2026. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

Academia Puerto Cabello vs Estudiantes De Merida Prediction vs Result

Before kick-off our model rated a Academia Puerto Cabello win the most likely single outcome at about 56%, with the full match-result split Academia Puerto Cabello 56%, draw 23%, Estudiantes De Merida 21%. The final score 1-2 went against our main leads this time — single matches are noisy by nature; our accuracy is measured across thousands of predictions, not one result.

✗ Match Result (Academia Puerto Cabello) ✗ Under 2.5
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