Fleetwood Town 1–4 Blackburn: Result & Stats

Fleetwood Town

1 – 4

Blackburn

8/22/2020

Friendlies Clubs · Club Friendlies 3Highbury Stadium

Match Prediction

Statistical Prediction

Based on goals from last 7+ matches

Fleetwood Town27%

×Draw26%

Blackburn47%

✓ Correct in 50 of 100 matches — 5 more than always backing the home side

Model

50.2%

Always home

44.5%

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.

Fleetwood TownExpected goals in this matchBlackburn

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.

1.10

1.53

Fleetwood Town

1.10

Blackburn

1.53

Blackburn creates 39% more chances

Season form · 7 home / 11 away

1.29

creates per match

1.64

1.43

allows per match

0.91

creates per match

Fleetwood Town

1.29

Blackburn

1.64

allows per match

Fleetwood Town

1.43

Blackburn

0.91

+0.00on par

finishing

+0.00on par

finishing

Fleetwood Town+0.00on par

Blackburn+0.00on par

Total goals

Under51
Over49

Close call

Both teams score

Yes52
No48

Close call

Score probability

Probability of each scoreline, %

Fleetwood Town ↓

Blackburn →

0–07%

0–111%

0–28%

0–34%

0–42%

1–08%

1–112%

1–29%

1–35%

1–42%

2–04%

2–17%

2–25%

2–33%

2–41%

3–02%

3–12%

3–22%

3–31%

3–40%

4–00%

4–11%

4–21%

4–30%

4–40%

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

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Total goals

OverUnder0.5

93%7%1.5

74%26%2.5

49%51%3.5

27%73%4.5

13%87%

Double chance

Fleetwood Town or draw

53%

Fleetwood Town or Blackburn

74%

Draw or Blackburn

73%

Winning margin

Fleetwood Town wins by 2+

11%

Blackburn wins by 2+

24%

Team goals

Fleetwood Town 1+ goals

67%

Fleetwood Town 2+ goals

30%

Fleetwood Town 3+ goals

10%

Blackburn 1+ goals

78%

Blackburn 2+ goals

45%

Blackburn 3+ goals

20%

Draw no bet

Fleetwood Town (draw refunded)

37%

Blackburn (draw refunded)

63%

Combos

Both score & 3+ goals

40%

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.

Recent form of each side

Fleetwood Town at home — creates 1.29, concedes 1.43 · 7 matches

Blackburn away — creates 1.64, concedes 0.91 · 11 matches

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

Expected goals for this match

Fleetwood Town attack 1.29 + Blackburn defence 0.91 → ÷2 → 1.10

Blackburn attack 1.64 + Fleetwood Town defence 1.43 → ÷2 → 1.53

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 47%?"

Fleetwood Town scores more

27%

level

26%

Blackburn scores more

47%

Blackburn at 47% 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 47% does not mean "Blackburn 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