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Brentford v Sunderland

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Sat, Sep 5, 10:00 AM ET · Matchweek 3 · Premier League

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Not validated out of sample. 26 Premier League matches have been graded under this model — far too few to support any accuracy claim. No win rate or accuracy figure is quoted, and this model has not been validated out of sample. These are the model's own probability distributions, published so you can see what it says — not picks, not advice, and not compared against any price.

Match result

Full time, 90 minutes

The draw is a real outcome and is never folded away.

Brentford win54.7%
Draw24.2%
Sunderland win21.1%

Two of three outcomes

Brentford or draw78.9%
Sunderland or draw45.3%
Either side wins75.8%

Each is a sum of the three probabilities above, so it cannot disagree with them.

Exact score

The ten likeliest scorelines

These ten account for 78.7% of the distribution — the remaining 21.3% is spread across every other scoreline.

Score (BrentfordSunderland)Probability
1–012.1%
1–111.5%
2–010.2%
2–19.7%
0–07.2%
0–16.8%
3–05.7%
1–25.4%
3–15.4%
2–24.6%
Goals

Total goals in the match

Expected 2.63. The middle half of the distribution falls between 1 and 4 goals.

Expected goals2.63
Median (p50)2
p10 – p901 – 5

Probability of each total (goals)

7
0
19
1
25
2
22
3
14
4
8
5
3
6
1
7
8

Over / under ladder

LineOverUnder
0.592.8%7.2%
1.573.8%26.2%
2.548.9%51.1%
3.527%73%
4.512.7%87.3%

Half lines only — a match cannot land exactly on one, so over and under sum to 100% with no push.

By side

How many each side scores

The marginal of the same grid — not a separate fit, so these add back to the total above.

Brentford1.68 expected
19
0
31
1
26
2
15
3
6
4
2
5
Sunderland0.95 expected
39
0
37
1
17
2
5
3
1
4
5
Derived

Goalscoring shape and margin

Every figure is an exact sum over the same score grid.

Both teams score49.8%
Brentford clean sheet38.8%
Sunderland clean sheet18.6%
Expected margin+0.74

Winning margin (Brentford goals − Sunderland goals)

-4
1
-3
5
-2
14
-1
24
0
25
+1
17
+2
8
+3
3
+4

Positive means Brentford win by that many, 0 is the draw, negative means Sunderland. Margins beyond ±4 carry the remaining mass and are not drawn.

Method

Where these numbers come from

Per-club attack and defence rates are fitted to Premier League results only, then combined into an exact Poisson score matrix for this fixture. Every probability on this page is a closed-form sum over that one grid — there is no sampling here, so there is no run count to quote and the figures are identical for every visitor, every time.

The fit takes an explicit cutoff at the run clock, so it cannot see a result from a match it is forecasting. Team-level only: no lineup, injury or team-news input exists in this model, by design.

Model
epl-model-v1-split-poisson
Scoring rates (λ)
Brentford 1.68 · Sunderland 0.95
Generated
2026-09-06T22:51:07Z
Validation
NOT_VALIDATED_OUT_OF_SAMPLE

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