Sheffield Utd vs Portsmouth — Championship 2018
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on xG from last 16+ matches
Sheffield Utd51%
Portsmouth24%✓ 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.
Sheffield Utd creates 58% more chances
Season form · 16 home / 38 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Under53
- Over47
Fewer than 3 goals likely
Both teams score
- No50
- Yes50
Close call
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Sheffield Utd ↓
Most likely 1–0 (12%) · grid covers 98% 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
Sheffield Utd at home — creates 1.62, concedes 1.05 · 16 matches
Portsmouth away — creates 0.93, concedes 1.50 · 38 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Sheffield Utd attack 1.62 + Portsmouth defence 1.50 → ÷2 → 1.56
Portsmouth attack 0.93 + Sheffield Utd defence 1.05 → ÷2 → 0.99
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 51%?"
Sheffield Utd at 51% 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 51% does not mean "Sheffield Utd 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
Sheffield Utd host Portsmouth on Saturday, 8 February 2025 at 15:00. The match is part of the Championship 2018/2019 season.
Championship: Sheffield Utd 2–1 Portsmouth
Sheffield Utd beat Portsmouth 2-1 in Championship on February 8, 2025.
Goals: G. Hamer (24'), C. Ogilvie (27'), J. Rak-Sakyi (73').
Sheffield Utd controlled possession (61%) and registered 11 shots to 16.
The match was played at Bramall Lane in Sheffield.