Peña Sport v Huesca — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Copa del Rey · Wednesday, 28 October 2026 · 18:00. Our rating makes this 48% to go over 2.5 goals, though we make no pick on this fixture — see below. The Copa del Rey average is 50%.

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Our ratings for this match

MarketYesNoOur call
Over 2.5 goals48%52%no pick
Over 3.5 goals25%75%no pick
Both teams to score52%48%no pick

The result model puts Peña Sport at 56%, the draw at 24% and Huesca at 20%, from expected goals of 1.76 and 0.94.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Copa del Rey has produced over 2.5 goals in 50% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Peña Sport have 0 in 0 this season, Huesca 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 50% and 50%.

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 50% and 46%.

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 48%.

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 51%, from expected goals of 1.76 for Peña Sport and 0.94 for Huesca. Folding in 30% of that view gives 49%.

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 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
Peña Sport0———
Huesca0———

Things worth knowing

More: Huesca season stats · Copa del Rey fixtures. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.