Manchester City v Coventry City
Manchester City host Coventry City in matchweek 3.
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Manchester City v Coventry City
Sat, Sep 5, 10:00 AM ET · Matchweek 3 · Premier League
Club research: Manchester City · Coventry City
Final · full time
Tested blind on past seasons. 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.
Model detail · how it was tested and its live record
Tested blind on nine past Premier League seasons (2013-14 to 2021-22, 3,420 matches) it was never fit on, where it beat the previous model and a plain rating system. Its total-goals numbers follow the league's recent scoring rate, so they are the same for every match — in that test they were more accurate than the previous model's team-by-team totals. Its live record this season is still being graded. 40 Premier League matches have been graded under this model — far too few to support any accuracy claim. No live win rate or accuracy figure is quoted until its season record is large enough to mean something. 36 matches were graded under the model this one replaced; that record is kept separately and is not evidence for this model.
What happened · official result
Full time: Manchester City 1 – 0 Coventry City
Manchester City win. The graded forecast gave this result 99%. Its most likely outcome was Manchester City win, which happened. 1 goal in total.
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The forecast below is shown exactly as it was published before kickoff.
Simulation story
7 chapters · read from the published artifact› Loading the matchup model› Reading the outcome distribution› Preparing the score scenariosPress Play to step through what the model expects, chapter by chapter, or read the report below.
Match result
Full time, 90 minutes
The draw is a real outcome and is never folded away.
Manchester City win99.0%
Draw1.0%
Coventry City win0.0%
Two of three outcomes
Manchester City or draw100%
Coventry City or draw1%
Either side wins99%
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 94.4% of the distribution — the remaining 5.6% is spread across every other scoreline.
| Score (Manchester City–Coventry City) | Probability | |
|---|---|---|
| 4–0 | 17.4% | |
| 5–0 | 16.8% | |
| 3–0 | 14.4% | |
| 6–0 | 13.5% | |
| 7–0 | 9.3% | |
| 2–0 | 9% | |
| 8–0 | 5.6% | |
| 1–0 | 3.7% | |
| 9–0 | 3% | |
| 10–0 | 1.5% |
Goals
Total goals in the match
Expected 4.81. The middle half of the distribution falls between 3 and 6 goals.
Expected goals4.81
Median (p50)5
p10 – p902 – 8
Probability of each total (goals)
0
41
92
153
184
185
146
107
68
Over / under ladder
| Line | Over | Under |
|---|---|---|
| 0.5 | 99.2% | 0.8% |
| 1.5 | 95.5% | 4.5% |
| 2.5 | 86.3% | 13.7% |
| 3.5 | 71.5% | 28.5% |
| 4.5 | 53.3% | 46.7% |
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.
Manchester City4.76 expected
0
41
92
153
184
185
Coventry City0.05 expected
950
51
2
3
4
5
Derived
Goalscoring shape and margin
Every figure is an exact sum over the same score grid.
Both teams score4.8%
Manchester City clean sheet95.1%
Coventry City clean sheet0.8%
Expected margin+4.71
Winning margin (Manchester City goals − Coventry City goals)
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
4+1
10+2
15+3
18+4
Positive means Manchester City win by that many, 0 is the draw, negative means Coventry City. 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.
- Forecast generated
- Validation
- Team match model tested blind on past seasons · not shown to outperform market prices
Technical detailsInternal model id and the fitted scoring rates.
- Model
- epl-model-v1-split-poisson
- Scoring rates (λ)
- Manchester City 4.83 · Coventry City 0.05
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