Port Vale vs Mansfield Town — League One 2025
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 24+ matches
Port Vale31%
Mansfield Town40%✓ Correct in 49 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: 48.6% correct across 15,072 matches, vs 43.8% for always backing the home side.
Home picks 50.1% correct · Away picks 45.3% 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 · 46 home / 24 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Under64
- Over36
Fewer than 3 goals likely
Both teams score
- No57
- Yes43
One side may not score
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Port Vale ↓
Most likely 0–1 (14%) · grid covers 99% 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
Port Vale at home — creates 0.96, concedes 1.24 · 46 matches
Mansfield Town away — creates 1.08, concedes 1.00 · 24 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Port Vale attack 0.96 + Mansfield Town defence 1.00 → ÷2 → 0.98
Mansfield Town attack 1.08 + Port Vale defence 1.24 → ÷2 → 1.16
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 40%?"
Mansfield Town at 40% 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 40% 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.
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Statistics
Port Vale host Mansfield Town on Saturday, 20 September 2025 at 14:00. The match is part of the League One 2025/2026 season.
League One: Port Vale 2–1 Mansfield Town
Port Vale beat Mansfield Town 2-1 in League One on September 20, 2025.
Goals: D. Cole (53'), R. Oates (86'), R. Curtis (90' pen).
Port Vale controlled possession (75%) and registered 19 shots to 2.
The match was played at Vale Park in Stoke on Trent.