Kelty Hearts vs Annan Athletic — League Two 2018
Annan Athletic score first in only 20% of matches
brightest fact of this match
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 19+ matches
Kelty Hearts55%
Annan Athletic21%✓ 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.
Kelty Hearts creates 78% more chances
Season form · 19 home / 95 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Over51
- Under49
Close call
Both teams score
- Yes51
- No49
Close call
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Kelty Hearts ↓
Most likely 1–0 (12%) · grid covers 97% 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
Kelty Hearts at home — creates 2.00, concedes 0.68 · 19 matches
Annan Athletic away — creates 1.25, concedes 1.45 · 95 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Kelty Hearts attack 2.00 + Annan Athletic defence 1.45 → ÷2 → 1.73
Annan Athletic attack 1.25 + Kelty Hearts defence 0.68 → ÷2 → 0.97
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 55%?"
Kelty Hearts at 55% 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 55% does not mean "Kelty Hearts 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 Insights
- Kelty Hearts score first in only 23% of matches
- 80% of Annan Athletic’s matches go over 2.5 goals
- Both teams score in 80% of Annan Athletic’s matches
- Both sides lean high-scoring (62% and 80% over 2.5)
- Both teams score in 77% of Kelty Hearts’s matches
- Both teams scored in 7 of the last 10 meetings
Based on historical data — not a prediction.
Probable lineups not yet announced
Starting lineups are usually confirmed ~1 hour before kickoff
Head to Head
5 previous meetings
If 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
Kelty Hearts host Annan Athletic on Saturday, 5 September 2026 at 14:00. The match is part of the League Two 2018/2019 season.
Kelty Hearts vs Annan Athletic — Match Preview
Kelty Hearts face Annan Athletic on September 5, 2026 in this League Two fixture. Get live scores, lineups, and real-time match statistics here when the game starts.
Kelty Hearts host Annan Athletic at New Central Park.
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