Xinjiang Tianshan vs Qingdao Youth Island — League One 2018
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 32+ matches
Xinjiang Tianshan25%
Qingdao Youth Island50%✓ 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.
Qingdao Youth Island creates 51% more chances
Season form · 76 home / 32 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Over52
- Under48
Close call
Both teams score
- Yes54
- No46
Both teams likely to score
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Xinjiang Tianshan ↓
Most likely 1–1 (12%) · grid covers 97% of scorelines
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Total goals
Double chance
Winning margin
Team goals
Draw no bet
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
Xinjiang Tianshan at home — creates 1.08, concedes 2.13 · 76 matches
Qingdao Youth Island away — creates 1.19, concedes 1.13 · 32 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Xinjiang Tianshan attack 1.08 + Qingdao Youth Island defence 1.13 → ÷2 → 1.10
Qingdao Youth Island attack 1.19 + Xinjiang Tianshan defence 2.13 → ÷2 → 1.66
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 50%?"
Qingdao Youth Island at 50% 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 50% does not mean "Qingdao Youth Island 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
Starting lineups are usually confirmed ~1 hour before kickoff
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P = Played · W = Won · D = Drawn · L = Lost · GF = Goals for · GA = Goals against · GD = Goal difference · Pts = Points
Xinjiang Tianshan host Qingdao Youth Island on Tuesday, 8 November 2022 at 06:30. The match is part of the League One 2018/2019 season.
League One: Xinjiang Tianshan 3–2 Qingdao Youth Island
Xinjiang Tianshan beat Qingdao Youth Island 3-2 in League One on November 8, 2022.
The match was played at Tangshan Nanhu City Football Training Base Field No.3 in Tangshan.