New York Red Bulls vs Santos Laguna — CONCACAF Champions League 2018
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 4+ matches
New York Red Bulls46%
Santos Laguna30%✓ Correct in 51 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: 50.5% correct across 581,483 matches, vs 44.6% for always backing the home side.
Home picks 50.7% correct · Away picks 49.7% 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.
New York Red Bulls creates 27% more chances
Season form · 4 home / 4 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Over60
- Under40
3+ goals likely
Both teams score
- Yes62
- No38
Both teams likely to score
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
New York Red Bulls ↓
Most likely 1–1 (11%) · grid covers 96% of scorelines
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Total goals
Double chance
Winning margin
Team goals
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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
New York Red Bulls at home — creates 1.50, concedes 0.75 · 4 matches
Santos Laguna away — creates 2.00, concedes 2.00 · 4 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
New York Red Bulls attack 1.50 + Santos Laguna defence 2.00 → ÷2 → 1.75
Santos Laguna attack 2.00 + New York Red Bulls defence 0.75 → ÷2 → 1.38
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 46%?"
New York Red Bulls at 46% 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 46% does not mean "New York Red Bulls 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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New York Red Bulls host Santos Laguna on Wednesday, 6 March 2019 at 01:00. The match is part of the CONCACAF Champions League 2018/2019 season.
New York Red Bulls 0 – 2 Santos Laguna
Santos Laguna beat New York Red Bulls 2-0 in CONCACAF Champions League on March 6, 2019.
Goals: D. Valdés (42'), J. Furch (48').
The match was played at Red Bull Arena (Harrison, New Jersey).