Sporting Braga U19 vs Napoli U19 — UEFA Youth League 2018
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 3+ matches
✓ 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.
Sporting Braga U19 creates 667% more chances
Season form · 3 home / 15 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Under59
- Over41
Fewer than 3 goals likely
Both teams score
- No79
- Yes21
One side may not score
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Sporting Braga U19 ↓
Most likely 2–0 (21%) · grid covers 95% 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
Sporting Braga U19 at home — creates 0.67, concedes 0.00 · 3 matches
Napoli U19 away — creates 0.53, concedes 3.47 · 15 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Sporting Braga U19 attack 0.67 + Napoli U19 defence 3.47 → ÷2 → 2.07
Napoli U19 attack 0.53 + Sporting Braga U19 defence 0.00 → ÷2 → 0.27
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 80%?"
Sporting Braga U19 at 80% 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 80% does not mean "Sporting Braga U19 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
If 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
Sporting Braga U19 host Napoli U19 on Wednesday, 20 September 2023 at 13:00. The match is part of the UEFA Youth League 2018/2019 season.
Sporting Braga U19 1 – 0 Napoli U19
Sporting Braga U19 beat Napoli U19 1-0 in UEFA Youth League on September 20, 2023.
Goals: Jonatás Noro (9').
The match was played at Cidade Desportiva SC Braga in Braga.
























