San Diego Loyal vs Tacoma Defiance — USL Championship 2018
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 43+ matches
San Diego Loyal59%
Tacoma Defiance20%✓ 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.
San Diego Loyal creates 87% more chances
Season form · 59 home / 43 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Over62
- Under38
3+ goals likely
Both teams score
- Yes59
- No41
Both teams likely to score
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
San Diego Loyal ↓
Most likely 1–1 (10%) · grid covers 94% 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
San Diego Loyal at home — creates 1.85, concedes 1.29 · 59 matches
Tacoma Defiance away — creates 0.95, concedes 2.33 · 43 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
San Diego Loyal attack 1.85 + Tacoma Defiance defence 2.33 → ÷2 → 2.09
Tacoma Defiance attack 0.95 + San Diego Loyal defence 1.29 → ÷2 → 1.12
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 59%?"
San Diego Loyal at 59% 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 59% does not mean "San Diego Loyal 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.
Probable lineups not yet announced
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San Diego Loyal host Tacoma Defiance on Sunday, 15 August 2021 at 02:30. The match is part of the USL Championship 2018/2019 season.
USL Championship: San Diego Loyal 1–2 Tacoma Defiance
Tacoma Defiance beat San Diego Loyal 2-1 in USL Championship on August 15, 2021.
The match was played at Torero Stadium in San Diego, California.