Maghreb Fès v CR Khemis Zemamra — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Botola Pro · Sunday, 27 September 2026. Final score 2–1 (half-time 0–0). Before kick-off we rated it 61% under 2.5 goals — the match finished with 3, so that call missed. That rating was frozen into a version-controlled ledger before the game and has not been touched since.

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Our ratings for this match

MarketYesNoOur call
Over 2.5 goals40%60%Under
Over 3.5 goals15%85%no pick
Both teams to score49%51%No

The result model puts Maghreb Fès at 59%, the draw at 24% and CR Khemis Zemamra at 17%, from expected goals of 1.71 and 0.79.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Botola Pro 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. Maghreb Fès have 0 in 0 this season, CR Khemis Zemamra 0 in 0. 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 38% and 38%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 0 and 0 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 34% and 41%.

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 38%.

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 38%.

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 46%, from expected goals of 1.71 for Maghreb Fès and 0.79 for CR Khemis Zemamra. Folding in 30% of that view gives 40%.

Season opener. One of these sides has not played a league game yet. Openers run about 2.5 points under their league's norm, measured across 2,727 of them, so the rating is docked to 38%.

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 40%.

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
Maghreb Fès0———
CR Khemis Zemamra0———

Head to head

26 Apr 26CR Khemis Zemamra 1–2 Maghreb FèsO2.5
14 Sept 25Maghreb Fès 2–0 CR Khemis ZemamraU2.5
23 Apr 25CR Khemis Zemamra 1–1 Maghreb FèsU2.5
1 Dec 24Maghreb Fès 0–1 CR Khemis ZemamraU2.5
17 Feb 24Maghreb Fès 2–3 CR Khemis ZemamraO2.5
25 Sept 23CR Khemis Zemamra 1–1 Maghreb FèsU2.5

Things worth knowing

More: Maghreb Fès season stats · CR Khemis Zemamra season stats · Botola Pro table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.