Charleston Battery 3–1 Nashville: Result & Stats

Charleston Battery

FT

3 – 1

HT: 1 – 0

Nashville

4/20/2019

USL Championship · Round 12MUSC Health Stadium (Charleston, South Carolina)

Match Prediction

Statistical Prediction

Based on goals from last 34+ matches

Charleston Battery42%

×Draw26%

Nashville32%

✓ Correct in 50 of 100 matches — 6 more than always backing the home side

Model

49.7%

Always home

44.3%

The model picks a winner (home or away) for each finished match using only pre-kickoff data, then checks it against the real result: 49.7% correct across 106,786 matches, vs 44.3% for always backing the home side.

Home picks 50.7% correct · Away picks 47.3% correct

Football matches only. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

Charleston BatteryExpected goals in this matchNashville

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.

1.42

1.22

Charleston Battery

1.42

Nashville

1.22

Charleston Battery creates 16% more chances

Season form · 137 home / 34 away

1.89

creates per match

1.29

1.15

allows per match

0.94

creates per match

Charleston Battery

1.89

Nashville

1.29

allows per match

Charleston Battery

1.15

Nashville

0.94

+0.00on par

finishing

+0.00on par

finishing

Charleston Battery+0.00on par

Nashville+0.00on par

Total goals

Under51
Over49

Close call

Both teams score

Yes53
No47

Both teams likely to score

Score probability

Probability of each scoreline, %

Charleston Battery ↓

Nashville →

0

1

2

3

4

0

0–07%

0–19%

0–25%

0–32%

0–41%

1

1–010%

1–112%

1–28%

1–33%

1–41%

2

2–07%

2–19%

2–25%

2–32%

2–41%

3

3–03%

3–14%

3–23%

3–31%

3–40%

4

4–01%

4–11%

4–21%

4–30%

4–40%

Most likely 1–1 (12%) · grid covers 98% of scorelines

More markets

Total goals

OverUnder0.5

93%7%1.5

74%26%2.5

49%51%3.5

27%73%4.5

13%87%

Double chance

Charleston Battery or draw

68%

Charleston Battery or Nashville

74%

Draw or Nashville

58%

Winning margin

Charleston Battery wins by 2+

20%

Nashville wins by 2+

14%

Team goals

Charleston Battery 1+ goals

76%

Charleston Battery 2+ goals

41%

Charleston Battery 3+ goals

17%

Nashville 1+ goals

70%

Nashville 2+ goals

34%

Nashville 3+ goals

12%

Draw no bet

Charleston Battery (draw refunded)

56%

Nashville (draw refunded)

44%

Combos

Both score & 3+ goals

41%

Both score & under 3

12%

Model probabilities, not odds. For information only.

How is this calculated?

Every number below comes from this match — nothing is made up.

1

Recent form of each side

Charleston Battery at home — creates 1.89, concedes 1.15 · 137 matches

Nashville away — creates 1.29, concedes 0.94 · 34 matches

⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.

2

Expected goals for this match

Charleston Battery attack 1.89 + Nashville defence 0.94 → ÷2 → 1.42

Nashville attack 1.29 + Charleston Battery defence 1.15 → ÷2 → 1.22

Each side's attack is blended with the other's defence, then averaged.

3

Chance of every scoreline

From those two numbers a Poisson distribution gives the probability of each exact score — the grid shown above.

4

The answer to "why 42%?"

Charleston Battery scores more

42%

level

26%

Nashville scores more

32%

Charleston Battery at 42% 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 42% does not mean "Charleston Battery 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.

Probable lineups not yet announced

Starting lineups are usually confirmed ~1 hour before kickoff