Chengdu Better City vs Nanjing City — League One 2026
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 25+ matches
Chengdu Better City54%
Nanjing City22%✓ Correct in 50 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: 50.2% correct across 585,598 matches, vs 44.5% for always backing the home side.
Home picks 50.5% correct · Away picks 49.3% 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.
Chengdu Better City creates 73% more chances
Season form · 25 home / 87 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Under51
- Over49
Close call
Both teams score
- No50
- Yes50
Close call
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Chengdu Better City ↓
Most likely 1–0 (12%) · grid covers 97% of scorelines
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Total goals
Double chance
Winning margin
Team goals
Draw no bet
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
Chengdu Better City at home — creates 1.96, concedes 0.88 · 25 matches
Nanjing City away — creates 1.03, concedes 1.36 · 87 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Chengdu Better City attack 1.96 + Nanjing City defence 1.36 → ÷2 → 1.66
Nanjing City attack 1.03 + Chengdu Better City defence 0.88 → ÷2 → 0.96
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 54%?"
Chengdu Better City at 54% 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 54% does not mean "Chengdu Better City 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.
Match Events
Head to Head
3 previous meetings · small sample
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Dongguan UnitedIf points are equal: 1. Goal difference 2. Goals scored 3. Head-to-head
P = Played · W = Won · D = Drawn · L = Lost · GF = Goals for · GA = Goals against · GD = Goal difference · Pts = Points
Chengdu Better City host Nanjing City on Friday, 30 April 2021 at 11:35. The match is part of the League One 2026/2027 season.
Match Recap: Chengdu Better City vs Nanjing City
Chengdu Better City beat Nanjing City 2-0 in League One on April 30, 2021.
Goals: Liu Ruofan (10'), Wu Guichao (19').
The match was played at Dalian Pro Soccer Academy Base in Dalian.