Middlesbrough vs Southampton — Championship 2018
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on xG from last 19+ matches
Middlesbrough51%
Southampton24%✓ Correct in 50 of 100 matches — 6 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: 49.7% correct across 106,786 matches, vs 44.3% for always backing the home side.
Home picks 50.7% correct · Away picks 47.3% 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.
Middlesbrough creates 56% more chances
Season form · 24 home / 19 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Under52
- Over48
Close call
Both teams score
- Yes51
- No49
Close call
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Middlesbrough ↓
Most likely 1–0 (12%) · grid covers 97% of scorelines
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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
Middlesbrough at home — creates 1.70, concedes 0.75 · 24 matches
Southampton away — creates 1.30, concedes 1.49 · 19 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Middlesbrough attack 1.70 + Southampton defence 1.49 → ÷2 → 1.59
Southampton attack 1.30 + Middlesbrough defence 0.75 → ÷2 → 1.02
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 51%?"
Middlesbrough at 51% 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 51% does not mean "Middlesbrough 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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Middlesbrough host Southampton on Saturday, 9 May 2026 at 11:30. The match is part of the Championship 2018/2019 season.
Championship: Middlesbrough 0–0 Southampton
Middlesbrough and Southampton drew 0-0 in Championship on May 9, 2026.
Middlesbrough controlled possession (64%) and registered 21 shots to 6.
The match was played at Riverside Stadium in Middlesbrough.