Mansfield Town vs Leyton Orient — League Two 2018
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 94+ matches
Mansfield Town42%
Leyton Orient32%✓ 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.
Mansfield Town creates 18% more chances
Season form · 139 home / 94 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Under52
- Over48
Close call
Both teams score
- Yes52
- No48
Close call
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Mansfield Town ↓
Most likely 1–1 (13%) · grid covers 98% 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
Mansfield Town at home — creates 1.60, concedes 1.22 · 139 matches
Leyton Orient away — creates 1.17, concedes 1.20 · 94 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 1.60 + Leyton Orient defence 1.20 → ÷2 → 1.40
Leyton Orient attack 1.17 + Mansfield Town defence 1.22 → ÷2 → 1.19
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 42%?"
Mansfield Town at 42% 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 42% does not mean "Mansfield 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.
Head to Head
5 previous meetings
Notts County
Bromley
Milton Keynes Dons
Salford City
Cambridge United
Grimsby
Chesterfield
Barnet
Swindon Town
Oldham
Crewe
Colchester
Walsall
Bristol Rovers
Fleetwood Town
Accrington ST
Gillingham
Cheltenham
Shrewsbury
Newport County
Tranmere
Crawley Town
Harrogate Town
BarrowIf 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
Mansfield Town host Leyton Orient on Tuesday, 20 August 2019 at 18:45. The match is part of the League Two 2018/2019 season.
Match Recap: Mansfield Town vs Leyton Orient
Leyton Orient beat Mansfield Town 3-2 in League Two on August 20, 2019.
Goals: D. Rose (12' pen, 29' pen), C. Wilkinson (64'), L. Angol (78'), J. Maguire-Drew (90+6').
The match was played at One Call Stadium in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.