Olimpia v Nacional Asuncion — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Primera Clausura · Tuesday, 6 October 2026. Final score 1–1 (half-time 0–1). Before kick-off we rated it 56% under 2.5 goals — the match finished with 2, 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 goals42%58%Under
Over 3.5 goals25%75%no pick
Both teams to score49%51%No

The result model puts Olimpia at 45%, the draw at 29% and Nacional Asuncion at 26%, from expected goals of 1.3 and 0.92.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Primera Clausura has produced over 2.5 goals in 43% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Olimpia have 7 in 12 this season (4 of 6 at home), Nacional Asuncion 4 in 12 (2 of 6 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 48% and 40%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 12 and 12 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 38%.

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 42%.

Head to head. These sides have met 6 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 17%. 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 38%, from expected goals of 1.3 for Olimpia and 0.92 for Nacional Asuncion. Folding in 30% of that view gives 40%.

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 42%.

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
Olimpia1258%8%42%
Nacional Asuncion1233%8%33%

Head to head

29 Jul 26Nacional Asuncion 2–0 OlimpiaU2.5
14 Sept 25Nacional Asuncion 4–1 OlimpiaO2.5
6 Jul 25Olimpia 1–1 Nacional AsuncionU2.5
24 Nov 24Olimpia 1–1 Nacional AsuncionU2.5
13 Sept 24Nacional Asuncion 2–0 OlimpiaU2.5
8 Oct 23Nacional Asuncion 1–0 OlimpiaU2.5

More: Olimpia season stats · Nacional 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.