Ligue 1 · Friday, 30 October 2026 · 18:00. Our rating makes this 52% to go over 2.5 goals, so our lean is over. The Ligue 1 average is 54%.
| Market | Yes | No | Our call |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 2.5 goals | 52% | 48% | Over |
| Over 3.5 goals | 31% | 69% | no pick |
| Both teams to score | 52% | 48% | Yes |
The result model puts Le Havre at 16%, the draw at 23% and Paris Saint Germain at 60%, from expected goals of 0.82 and 1.81.
The league sets the starting point. Ligue 1 has produced over 2.5 goals in 54% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.
Each side's own record. Le Havre have 3 in 7 this season (2 of 4 at home), Paris Saint Germain 6 in 7 (4 of 5 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 52% and 61%.
Last season still counts, briefly. With 7 and 7 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 45% and 59%.
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 52%.
Head to head. These sides have met 6 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 67%. 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 53%.
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 49%, from expected goals of 0.82 for Le Havre and 1.81 for Paris Saint Germain. Folding in 30% of that view gives 52%.
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.
| Team | Games | O2.5 | O3.5 | BTTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Havre | 7 | 43% | 29% | 57% |
| Paris Saint Germain | 7 | 86% | 57% | 86% |
Our numbers give this match a 71% chance of at least one goal before half-time and 36% of two or more. The Ligue 1 rates are 70% and 34%. After the break: 79% for a goal and 46% for two or more (league 79% and 47%). Le Havre's last 50 games had a first-half goal 66% of the time and a second-half goal 66%; Paris Saint Germain's last 50, 80% and 92%. Team form says less about a single half than about a full match, so these numbers stay close to the league's.
Every match ranked the same way: first half goals today · second half goals today · tomorrow.
More: Le Havre season stats · Paris Saint Germain season stats · Ligue 1 table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.