Ligue 2 · France · Regular Season - 3

Clermont Foot–Dijon

1–1

HT 0–0

Kick-off: Friday, 21 August 2026 at 18:00
Status: Match Finished
Venue: Stade Gabriel Montpied, Clermont-Ferrand

What the model said, and what happened

Too close to call — we gave this result 31%

This verdict goes into the public record unchanged; we do not filter out the ones we get wrong. The model's track record

Goals and red cards

90'DijonJ. Marié (assist: Júlio Tavares)
90+1'Clermont FootJ. Nyindong Tsamouna (assist: A. Hunou)

Match statistics

Match statistics
Clermont Foot		Dijon
8	Shots	18
2	Shots on target	6
4	Shots inside the box	9
5	Goalkeeper saves	1
2	Corners	7
4	Offsides	3
39%	Possession	61%
391	Passes	603
316	Accurate passes

What we expected, and what happened

Expected goals before kick-off: Clermont Foot 1.10 · Dijon 1.09. On the pitch: 1-1.
Shots Clermont Foot 8 · Dijon 18; on target 2 and 6.
Dijon kept the ball more (61%).

Referee

Soulaimane Chamel, France→

There's no card data for this referee from before this match yet. We don't invent an average; it will appear here once the data exists.

Model prediction

Why this prediction?

The model puts the most likely outcome at 34.8%: “Clermont Foot to win”. Second comes “Dijon to win” at 33.9%.
Behind that distribution are the expected goals: 1.10 for Clermont Foot, 1.09 for Dijon.
The highest double chance value is 68.7% (12 — any result other than a draw).
These values were computed from 1,388 past matches.

This is a prediction, not a guarantee; a probability is not a certainty.

These sentences are built by a fixed template; every number in them comes straight from the model's computation, none invented while the text was written.

Clermont Foot to win34.8%

Draw31.3%

Dijon to win33.9%

When the model has said 30–35% in the past, 1,976 of 6,366 predictions were correct (31.0%). Accuracy record →

7	Fouls	19

0	Yellow cards	2

0	Red cards	0

First half

Actual: 0–0

Clermont Foot lead at half-time18.6%

Level at half-time62.4%

Dijon lead at half-time19.0%

First-half double chance

1X — Clermont Foot ahead or level81.0%

12 — not level at half-time37.6%

X2 — level or Dijon ahead81.4%

These values are not a fraction of the full-match prediction; they come from a separate model trained on the first-half scores of 1388 matches. Its edge over the base rate is markedly smaller than the full-match model's — the measured figure is on the accuracy record. Read them more cautiously. First-half goal markets are not published because they failed to beat the base rate.

Expected fouls and corners

Fouls

Clermont Foot: at least 13Actual: 7
Dijon: at least 13Actual: 19

Corners

Clermont Foot: at least 2Actual: 2
Dijon: at least 5Actual: 7

These figures are set to hold in at least 60% of matches; in the rest the count comes in below them. No upper bound is stated — we make no "at most" claim. Yellow cards were measured and are not published: there our model did not beat the historical average.

What these probabilities rest on

Expected goals comes out of a team's attack weighed against its opponent's defence. A strong attack is damped when it meets a strong defence — which is why comparing the ratings on their own is misleading.

How many goals Clermont Foot score1.10

Attack: Clermont Foot score below the league average (17% fewer).

Opponent's defence: Dijon's defence is close to the league average (0.88×), so it doesn't move the expectation much.

Result: These two effects give an expectation of 1.10 goals (including home advantage).

How many goals Dijon score1.09

Attack: Dijon score below the league average (22% fewer).

Opponent's defence: Clermont Foot's defence is close to the league average (1.08×), so it doesn't move the expectation much.

Result: These two effects give an expectation of 1.09 goals (including the away penalty).

Most likely scorelines

1–115.5%1–011.5%0–111.3%

A single scoreline is always less likely than an outcome: “home win” is the sum of 1-0, 2-0, 2-1 and dozens more. So the most likely single score can be a draw while the most likely outcome is a home win; the two do not contradict each other.

Week 3 of the season. This prediction was computed from previous seasons. Summer transfers, budget changes and squad rebuilds aren't in the ratings yet — the model can only see that a team has been rebuilt once new results come in.

We measured this: the bias is only pronounced in the opening week. In this week the model's overall accuracy does not separate from the rest of the season — that is, we found no measurable flaw. The one tendency across all opening weeks is that home wins are called slightly too often (said 43.0%, got 41.9%; n=583).

This sample is small and not statistically established, which is why we do not correct the model for it. The correction we tried (pulling probabilities toward the league average) didn't win on holdout, so it wasn't added. Read opening-week predictions with a little more caution.