Ligue 2 · Friday, 30 October 2026 · 19:00. Our rating makes this 51% to go over 2.5 goals, so our lean is over. The Ligue 2 average is 47%.
| Market | Yes | No | Our call |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 2.5 goals | 51% | 49% | Over |
| Over 3.5 goals | 29% | 71% | no pick |
| Both teams to score | 55% | 45% | Yes |
The result model puts Nantes at 43%, the draw at 25% and Clermont Foot at 32%, from expected goals of 1.6 and 1.36.
The league sets the starting point. Ligue 2 has produced over 2.5 goals in 47% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.
Each side's own record. Nantes have 5 in 9 this season (2 of 5 at home), Clermont Foot 3 in 9 (2 of 4 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 50% and 44%.
Last season still counts, briefly. With 9 and 9 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 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 47%.
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 57%, from expected goals of 1.6 for Nantes and 1.36 for Clermont Foot. Folding in 30% of that view gives 50%.
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 51%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nantes | 9 | 56% | 33% | 56% |
| Clermont Foot | 9 | 33% | 33% | 67% |
Our numbers give this match a 64% chance of at least one goal before half-time and 31% of two or more. The Ligue 2 rates are 66% and 33%. After the break: 76% for a goal and 37% for two or more (league 74% and 39%). Nantes's last 50 games had a first-half goal 62% of the time and a second-half goal 80%; Clermont Foot's last 50, 58% and 78%. 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: Nantes season stats · Clermont Foot season stats · Ligue 2 table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.