Al Shorta vs Al Sadd — AFC Champions League Elite 2025
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 4+ matches
Al Shorta27%
Al Sadd52%✓ Correct in 49 of 100 matches — 5 more than always backing the home side
The model picks a winner (home or away) for each finished match using only pre-kickoff data, then checks it against the real result: 48.6% correct across 15,072 matches, vs 43.8% for always backing the home side.
Home picks 50.1% correct · Away picks 45.3% correct
Football matches only. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Expected goals in this match
What is xG?
Every shot is scored 0–1 by how likely it is to be a goal from that spot — a chance in the middle of the box ≈ 0.4, a long shot from a tight angle ≈ 0.03, a penalty ≈ 0.76. Add them up over a match and that is the xG.
The scoreline can lie: you can win 1-0 on a fluke while creating half the chances. xG shows who was really closer to scoring — and over a season it predicts results better than goals alone.
Al Sadd creates 42% more chances
Season form · 4 home / 4 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Over70
- Under30
3+ goals likely
Both teams score
- Yes68
- No32
Both teams likely to score
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Al Shorta ↓
Most likely 1–1 (9%) · grid covers 92% of scorelines
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Winning margin
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Combos
Model probabilities, not odds. For information only.
How is this calculated?
Every number below comes from this match — nothing is made up.
Recent form of each side
Al Shorta at home — creates 1.25, concedes 3.00 · 4 matches
Al Sadd away — creates 1.25, concedes 1.75 · 4 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Al Shorta attack 1.25 + Al Sadd defence 1.75 → ÷2 → 1.50
Al Sadd attack 1.25 + Al Shorta defence 3.00 → ÷2 → 2.13
Each side's attack is blended with the other's defence, then averaged.
Chance of every scoreline
From those two numbers a Poisson distribution gives the probability of each exact score — the grid shown above.
The answer to "why 52%?"
Al Sadd at 52% is simply the biggest of the three — that is the pick.
What the model can't see
It reads only the stats of recent matches. It knows nothing about:
- injuries & suspensions
- the matchday lineup
- motivation — cup, relegation, a title race
- weather & pitch condition
- in-game coaching decisions
So 52% does not mean "Al Sadd will win" — it means "on the available stats, this is the most likely result."
Statistical model based on expected goals (xG). For informational purposes only.
Player of the match
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Possession
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Statistics
Al Shorta host Al Sadd on Monday, 15 September 2025 at 18:15. The match is part of the AFC Champions League Elite 2025/2026 season.
AFC Champions League Elite: Al Shorta 1–1 Al Sadd
Al Shorta and Al Sadd drew 1-1 in AFC Champions League Elite on September 15, 2025.
Goals: D. Mendy (28'), H. Al Haydos (62').
Al Shorta controlled possession (59%) and registered 9 shots to 7.
The match was played at Al-Zawraa Stadium in Baghdad.