Club Guarani v Olimpia — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Primera Division · Saturday, 21 March 2026. Final score 0–2 (half-time 0–1). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 44% for over 2.5 goals. This match is older than our frozen ratings ledger, which keeps 30 days, so that figure is a reconstruction from pre-match data rather than a number we published at the time — a distinction worth making, because only the frozen ones prove what we actually said beforehand.

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Our ratings for this match

MarketYesNoOur call
Over 2.5 goals44%56%Under
Over 3.5 goals20%80%no pick
Both teams to score52%48%Yes

The result model puts Club Guarani at 31%, the draw at 28% and Olimpia at 40%, from expected goals of 1.09 and 1.29.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Primera Division has produced over 2.5 goals in 37% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Club Guarani have 6 in 10 this season (3 of 4 at home), Olimpia 3 in 11 (1 of 5 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 44% and 34%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 10 and 11 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 44% and 39%.

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 40%.

Head to head. These sides have met 7 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 71%. 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 42%.

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 1.09 for Club Guarani and 1.29 for Olimpia. Folding in 30% of that view gives 42%.

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 44%.

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.

Season form

TeamGamesO2.5O3.5BTTS
Club Guarani1060%50%60%
Olimpia1127%9%45%

Head to head

25 Jan 26Olimpia 2–1 Club GuaraniO2.5
6 Apr 25Club Guarani 2–1 OlimpiaO2.5
26 Jan 25Olimpia 0–1 Club GuaraniU2.5
18 May 24Olimpia 2–1 Club GuaraniO2.5
25 Feb 24Club Guarani 1–3 OlimpiaO2.5
3 Jun 23Club Guarani 1–2 OlimpiaO2.5

More: Club Guarani season stats · Olimpia season stats · Primera Division table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.