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

Primera Division · Monday, 11 May 2026. Final score 2–3 (half-time 1–1). 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 goals18%82%no pick
Both teams to score49%51%No

The result model puts Sportivo Luqueno at 28%, the draw at 30% and Libertad Asuncion at 42%, from expected goals of 0.92 and 1.21.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Primera Division has produced over 2.5 goals in 39% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Sportivo Luqueno have 10 in 19 this season (5 of 9 at home), Libertad Asuncion 8 in 19 (3 of 9 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 45% and 40%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 19 and 19 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 40% 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 39%.

Head to head. These sides have met 5 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 60%. 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 40%.

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 36%, from expected goals of 0.92 for Sportivo Luqueno and 1.21 for Libertad Asuncion. 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
Sportivo Luqueno1953%21%63%
Libertad Asuncion1942%26%37%

Head to head

7 Mar 26Libertad Asuncion 1–0 Sportivo LuquenoU2.5
11 May 25Sportivo Luqueno 1–0 Libertad AsuncionU2.5
28 Feb 25Libertad Asuncion 3–0 Sportivo LuquenoO2.5
14 Apr 24Sportivo Luqueno 0–3 Libertad AsuncionO2.5
24 Jan 24Libertad Asuncion 2–1 Sportivo LuquenoO2.5
24 Apr 23Sportivo Luqueno 0–2 Libertad AsuncionU2.5

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