CODM Meknès v Kawkab Marrakech — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Botola Pro · Saturday, 3 October 2026. Final score 0–1 (half-time 0–0). Before kick-off we rated it 68% under 2.5 goals — the match finished with 1, so that call landed. 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 goals35%65%Under
Over 3.5 goals13%87%no pick
Both teams to score46%54%No

The result model puts CODM Meknès at 43%, the draw at 36% and Kawkab Marrakech at 21%, from expected goals of 0.96 and 0.59.

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. CODM Meknès have 1 in 1 this season, Kawkab Marrakech 1 in 1. 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 41% and 41%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 1 and 1 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 36% and 35%.

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 36%.

Head to head. These sides have met 2 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 50%. 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 37%.

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 20%, from expected goals of 0.96 for CODM Meknès and 0.59 for Kawkab Marrakech. Folding in 30% of that view gives 32%.

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 35%.

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
CODM Meknès1100%100%100%
Kawkab Marrakech1100%100%100%

Head to head

22 May 26Kawkab Marrakech 3–1 CODM MeknèsO2.5
26 Oct 25CODM Meknès 1–0 Kawkab MarrakechU2.5

More: CODM Meknès season stats · Kawkab Marrakech season stats · Botola Pro table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.