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Olympic Star v Never Give Up Academy

Olympic Star

1–0Full time

Never Give Up Academy

Ligue A · SAT 10 OCT

Full timeGraded 10 Oct 18:06

Olympic Star 1–0 Never Give Up Academy OLYMPIC STAR WIN · RIGHTUNDER 2.5 · RIGHTNOT BOTH TO SCORE · RIGHTOVER 1.5 · WRONGUNDER 3.5 · RIGHT1–0 EXACTLY · RIGHT

~~We said Olympic Star win~~54%

~~Brier score, this match · lower is better~~0.319

The prediction on this page is exactly as published before kick-off. Match events and statistics come from the match and are corrected when the official figures change. Wrong calls are shown exactly like right ones.

Timeline

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Pre-match prediction

Olympic Star win54%

Draw27%

Never Give Up Academy win19%

Published before kick-off · 9 Oct 06:15

Match information

SAT 10 OCT · 14:00

The game so far

Recorded statistics

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Players on the pitch

Recorded line-ups

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Our number · olympic star winPublished 10 Oct 17:54

54% The market–

Us54%

We make Olympic Star a 54% chance to win. The model expects 1.5–0.8, and 1–0 is the single most likely score at 15%. No bookmaker has priced this match yet.

Every market, from one calculation

Market	Us	Market	Gap
Olympic Star win	54%	–	–
Draw	27%	–	–
Never Give Up Academy win	19%	–	–
Over 2.5 goals	40%	–	–
Both teams to score	41%	–	–
Over 1.5 goals	66%	–	–
Over 3.5 goals	20%	–	–
Olympic Star or draw	81%	–	–
Olympic Star clean sheet	48%	–	–
Never Give Up Academy clean sheet	23%	–	–

Every figure here is read off one scoreline distribution, so no two can contradict each other. No bookmaker has priced this match yet.

Every scorelineMost likely 1–0 at 14.8%

0123450 11.6 7.3 3.1 1 14.8 12.1 4.4 2 11.5 8.4 3.2 3 6.0 4.3 4 2.5 5

under 2% 5% 12%+Olympic Star down, Never Give Up Academy across

This is a probability, not a recommendation. We take no bets and hold no affiliate relationships with any gambling operator. Model 1.1 — Pitchside Lab's own model.

How we got to this number6 steps · in order

Our model

Rates each side's attack and defence from 1,238 Ligue A matches up to 10 Oct 2026, weighting recent results more and allowing for home advantage.

Base rates

Ligue A matches have gone over 2.5 in 44.7% of games this season, across 38 played.

Head to head

No previous meeting in our records, so this step adds nothing.

Home and away form

Olympic Star at home: 1.67 scored, 1.00 conceded a game (last 6). Never Give Up Academy away: 1.00 scored, 1.00 conceded (last 2).

What the model expects

1.52 goals for Olympic Star, 0.75 for Never Give Up Academy. Most likely score 1–0.

Not in these numbers yet

Line-ups, injuries and suspensions, and rest days are being measured in a test version of our model; they do not change these numbers. Weather and the referee are shown on the match page but not used.

Nothing here is written by hand. Each step is a figure the model used, in the order it used it.

Head to head

0 meetings since 2021

No previous meeting of these two in our records. We say so rather than invent one.

Form · last six in Ligue A

OLYMPIC STAR

WLDDWD4–0 · 1–3 · 0–0 · 0–0 · 3–1 · 1–1

NEVER GIVE UP ACADEMY

LWDL0–1 · 2–1 · 0–0 · 0–2

The table

2026/27

#	TEAM	P	GD	PTS
1	Royal Vision	5	+11	13
2	Muzinga	5	+4	10
3	Aigle Noir	5	+3	10
4	Le Messager Ngozi	4	+3	10
5	Ngozi City	5	+2	9
6	Rukinzo	4	+8	8
7	Vital'O	5	−3	8
8	Bumamuru	6	+1	7
9	Olympic Star	5	0	6
10	Flambeau du Centre	4	0	5
11	Kayanza United	5	−1	4
12	Never Give Up Academy	4	−2	4
13	Musongati	5	−4	4
14	Inter Star	4	−2	2
15	Panthere Noir	4	−3	1
16	Young Star	6	−17	1