Petaling Jaya City vs Sabah FA — League #278 2026
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 5+ matches
Petaling Jaya City32%
Sabah FA42%✓ 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.
Sabah FA creates 17% more chances
Season form · 5 home / 5 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Under52
- Over48
Close call
Both teams score
- Yes53
- No47
Both teams likely to score
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Petaling Jaya City ↓
Most likely 1–1 (12%) · grid covers 98% 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
Petaling Jaya City at home — creates 1.20, concedes 1.00 · 5 matches
Sabah FA away — creates 1.80, concedes 1.20 · 5 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Petaling Jaya City attack 1.20 + Sabah FA defence 1.20 → ÷2 → 1.20
Sabah FA attack 1.80 + Petaling Jaya City defence 1.00 → ÷2 → 1.40
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%?"
Sabah FA 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 "Sabah FA 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
Petaling Jaya City substitutes
Head to Head
Petaling Jaya City host Sabah FA on Tuesday, 26 July 2022 at 12:15. The match is part of the League #278 2026/2027 season.
League #278: Petaling Jaya City 1–2 Sabah FA
Sabah FA beat Petaling Jaya City 2-1 in League #278 on July 26, 2022.
Goals: Darren Lok (34'), T. Kagayama (48'), Irfan Fazail (75').
The match was played at Stadium Petaling Jaya in Petaling Jaya.