Zibo Cuju vs Chengdu Better City — League One 2018
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 24+ matches
Zibo Cuju19%
Chengdu Better City58%✓ 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.
Chengdu Better City creates 97% more chances
Season form · 34 home / 24 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Under50
- Over50
Close call
Both teams score
- No51
- Yes49
Close call
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Zibo Cuju ↓
Most likely 0–1 (12%) · grid covers 97% 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
Zibo Cuju at home — creates 0.97, concedes 1.38 · 34 matches
Chengdu Better City away — creates 2.17, concedes 0.83 · 24 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Zibo Cuju attack 0.97 + Chengdu Better City defence 0.83 → ÷2 → 0.90
Chengdu Better City attack 2.17 + Zibo Cuju defence 1.38 → ÷2 → 1.77
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 58%?"
Chengdu Better City at 58% 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 58% does not mean "Chengdu Better City 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
Zibo Cuju host Chengdu Better City on Monday, 16 August 2021 at 11:35. The match is part of the League One 2018/2019 season.
League One: Zibo Cuju 0–0 Chengdu Better City
Zibo Cuju and Chengdu Better City drew 0-0 in League One on August 16, 2021.
The match was played at Dalian Pro Soccer Academy Base in Dalian.