Nottingham Forest U18 vs Manchester City U18 — League #695 2026
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 5+ matches
Nottingham Forest U1818%
Manchester City U1863%✓ 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.
Manchester City U18 creates 98% more chances
Season form · 55 home / 5 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Over69
- Under31
3+ goals likely
Both teams score
- Yes63
- No37
Both teams likely to score
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Nottingham Forest U18 ↓
Most likely 1–2 (10%) · grid covers 91% 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
Nottingham Forest U18 at home — creates 1.40, concedes 1.75 · 55 matches
Manchester City U18 away — creates 3.00, concedes 1.00 · 5 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Nottingham Forest U18 attack 1.40 + Manchester City U18 defence 1.00 → ÷2 → 1.20
Manchester City U18 attack 3.00 + Nottingham Forest U18 defence 1.75 → ÷2 → 2.38
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 63%?"
Manchester City U18 at 63% 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 63% does not mean "Manchester City U18 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 Events
Head to Head
5 previous meetingsNottingham Forest U18Manchester City U18
Blackburn Rovers U18
Middlesbrough U18
Newcastle United U18
Wolves U18
Manchester United U18
Derby County U18
Liverpool U18
Stoke City U18
Everton U18
Sunderland U18
Burnley U18
Leeds United U18If 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
Nottingham Forest U18 host Manchester City U18 on Saturday, 15 February 2025 at 12:00. The match is part of the League #695 2026/2027 season.
League #695: Nottingham Forest U18 0–4 Manchester City U18
Manchester City U18 beat Nottingham Forest U18 4-0 in League #695 on February 15, 2025.
Goals: R. Heskey (3' pen, 90+2'), T. Samba (44'), M. Warhurst (72').
The match was played at The Nigel Doughty Academy in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire.