Mansfield Town vs Cardiff — League One 2025
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 23+ matches
Mansfield Town37%
Cardiff38%✓ Correct in 49 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: 48.6% correct across 15,072 matches, vs 43.8% for always backing the home side.
Home picks 50.1% correct · Away picks 45.3% 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.
Both teams create about equally
Season form · 24 home / 23 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Over55
- Under45
3+ goals likely
Both teams score
- Yes58
- No42
Both teams likely to score
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Mansfield Town ↓
Most likely 1–1 (12%) · grid covers 97% of scorelines
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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
Mansfield Town at home — creates 1.67, concedes 1.17 · 24 matches
Cardiff away — creates 1.74, concedes 1.17 · 23 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Mansfield Town attack 1.67 + Cardiff defence 1.17 → ÷2 → 1.42
Cardiff attack 1.74 + Mansfield Town defence 1.17 → ÷2 → 1.46
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 38%?"
Cardiff at 38% 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 38% does not mean "Cardiff 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
Mansfield Town host Cardiff on Saturday, 2 May 2026 at 14:00. The match is part of the League One 2025/2026 season.
Match Recap: Mansfield Town vs Cardiff
Mansfield Town beat Cardiff 5-4 in League One on May 2, 2026.
Goals: R. Sweeney (2'), L. Akins (23', 26'), I. Davies (61'), R. Oates (63'), O. Kellyman (66', 90'), O. Irow (79'), R. Kpakio (86').
Cardiff controlled possession (70%) and registered 21 shots to 12.
The match was played at One Call Stadium in Mansfield.