Libertad Asuncion v Sportivo Trinidense — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Primera Division · Monday, 13 April 2026. Final score 1–1 (half-time 0–0). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 41% 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 goals41%59%Under
Over 3.5 goals20%80%no pick
Both teams to score51%49%Yes

The result model puts Libertad Asuncion at 51%, the draw at 26% and Sportivo Trinidense at 22%, from expected goals of 1.55 and 0.93.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Primera Division has produced over 2.5 goals in 38% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Libertad Asuncion have 5 in 15 this season (3 of 7 at home), Sportivo Trinidense 5 in 15 (2 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 36% and 36%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 15 and 15 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 37% and 36%.

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 37%.

Head to head. These sides have met 6 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 33%. 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 36%.

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 45%, from expected goals of 1.55 for Libertad Asuncion and 0.93 for Sportivo Trinidense. Folding in 30% of that view gives 39%.

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 41%.

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
Libertad Asuncion1533%20%33%
Sportivo Trinidense1533%20%60%

Head to head

15 Feb 26Sportivo Trinidense 1–0 Libertad AsuncionU2.5
17 May 25Libertad Asuncion 1–1 Sportivo TrinidenseU2.5
8 Mar 25Sportivo Trinidense 1–1 Libertad AsuncionU2.5
21 Apr 24Libertad Asuncion 2–0 Sportivo TrinidenseU2.5
29 Jan 24Sportivo Trinidense 1–2 Libertad AsuncionO2.5
13 May 23Libertad Asuncion 2–1 Sportivo TrinidenseO2.5

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