Crawley Town vs Colchester — League Two 2018
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 160+ matches
Crawley Town43%
Colchester30%✓ 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% correct across 579,794 matches, vs 44.6% for always backing the home side.
Home picks 50.2% correct · Away picks 49.2% 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.
Crawley Town creates 24% more chances
Season form · 160 home / 180 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Under55
- Over45
Fewer than 3 goals likely
Both teams score
- No50
- Yes50
Close call
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Crawley Town ↓
Most likely 1–1 (13%) · grid covers 98% of scorelines
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Total goals
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Winning margin
Team goals
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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
Crawley Town at home — creates 1.39, concedes 1.21 · 160 matches
Colchester away — creates 1.00, concedes 1.34 · 180 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Crawley Town attack 1.39 + Colchester defence 1.34 → ÷2 → 1.36
Colchester attack 1.00 + Crawley Town defence 1.21 → ÷2 → 1.10
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 43%?"
Crawley Town at 43% 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 43% does not mean "Crawley Town 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.
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Statistics
Crawley Town host Colchester on Tuesday, 18 April 2023 at 18:45. The match is part of the League Two 2018/2019 season.
League Two: Crawley Town 0–0 Colchester
Crawley Town and Colchester drew 0-0 in League Two on April 18, 2023.
Crawley Town controlled possession (55%) and registered 8 shots to 19.
The match was played at Broadfield Stadium in Crawley, West Sussex.