Difaa EL Jadida v Wydad AC — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Botola Pro · Saturday, 3 October 2026. Final score 0–2 (half-time 0–1). Before kick-off we rated it 51% over 2.5 goals — the match finished with 2, 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 goals48%52%Under
Over 3.5 goals24%76%no pick
Both teams to score55%45%Yes

The result model puts Difaa EL Jadida at 22%, the draw at 22% and Wydad AC at 56%, from expected goals of 1.17 and 1.97.

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. Difaa EL Jadida have 1 in 1 this season (1 of 1 at home), Wydad AC 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 42% and 42%.

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 41%.

Head to head. These sides have met 4 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 25%. 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 41%.

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 61%, from expected goals of 1.17 for Difaa EL Jadida and 1.97 for Wydad AC. Folding in 30% of that view gives 47%.

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 48%.

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
Difaa EL Jadida1100%100%100%
Wydad AC1100%100%100%

Head to head

21 Jun 26Difaa EL Jadida 1–0 Wydad ACU2.5
6 Apr 26Wydad AC 1–1 Difaa EL JadidaU2.5
19 Jan 25Difaa EL Jadida 0–2 Wydad ACU2.5
28 Sept 24Wydad AC 4–1 Difaa EL JadidaO2.5
21 Feb 23Difaa EL Jadida 0–1 Wydad ACU2.5
5 Sept 22Wydad AC 3–1 Difaa EL JadidaO2.5

More: Difaa EL Jadida season stats · Wydad AC season stats · Botola Pro table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.