Club Guarani v Libertad Asuncion — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Primera Clausura · Sunday, 2 August 2026. Final score 2–1 (half-time 0–1). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 47% 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 goals47%53%Under
Over 3.5 goals31%69%no pick
Both teams to score51%49%Yes

The result model puts Club Guarani at 40%, the draw at 27% and Libertad Asuncion at 33%, from expected goals of 1.37 and 1.22.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Primera Clausura has produced over 2.5 goals in 42% 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 1 in 2 this season (1 of 1 at home), Libertad Asuncion 1 in 2 (0 of 1 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 42% and 42%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 2 and 2 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 47% and 43%.

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 44%.

Head to head. These sides have met 5 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 40%. 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 44%.

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 48%, from expected goals of 1.37 for Club Guarani and 1.22 for Libertad Asuncion. Folding in 30% of that view gives 45%.

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 47%.

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 Guarani250%0%50%
Libertad Asuncion250%50%50%

Head to head

9 Nov 25Club Guarani 1–2 Libertad AsuncionO2.5
25 Aug 25Libertad Asuncion 0–4 Club GuaraniO2.5
6 Oct 24Libertad Asuncion 0–2 Club GuaraniU2.5
3 Aug 24Club Guarani 0–0 Libertad AsuncionU2.5
2 Oct 23Libertad Asuncion 0–0 Club GuaraniU2.5
16 Jul 23Club Guarani 0–3 Libertad AsuncionO2.5

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