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Manchester United v Manchester City

Sun, Sep 13, 11:30 AM ET · Matchweek 4 · Premier League

Club research: Manchester United · Manchester City

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Manchester United v Manchester City

Manchester United host Manchester City in matchweek 4.

Match result

Full time, 90 minutes

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

Manchester United win24.4%

Draw24.2%

Manchester City win51.4%

Two of three outcomes

Manchester United or draw48.6%

Manchester City or draw75.6%

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 75.8% of the distribution — the remaining 24.2% is spread across every other scoreline.

Score (Manchester United–Manchester City)	Probability
1–1	11.5%
0–1	10.7%
1–2	9.6%
0–2	9%
1–0	6.9%
0–0	6.4%
2–1	6.2%
1–3	5.4%
2–2	5.2%
0–3	5%

Goals

Total goals in the match

Expected 2.75. The middle half of the distribution falls between 2 and 4 goals.

Expected goals2.75

Median (p50)3

p10 – p901 – 5

Probability of each total (goals)

Over / under ladder

Line	Over	Under
0.5	93.6%	6.4%
1.5	76%	24%
2.5	51.9%	48.1%
3.5	29.7%	70.3%
4.5	14.5%	85.5%

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 United1.08 expected

Manchester City1.68 expected

Derived

Goalscoring shape and margin

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

Both teams score53.6%

Manchester United clean sheet18.7%

Manchester City clean sheet34.1%

Expected margin-0.60

Winning margin (Manchester United goals − Manchester City goals)

-4

-3

-2

-1

Positive means Manchester United win by that many, 0 is the draw, negative means Manchester 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.

Model: epl-model-v1-split-poisson
Scoring rates (λ): Manchester United 1.08 · Manchester City 1.68
Generated: 2026-09-14T21:57:35Z
Validation: VALIDATED_OUT_OF_SAMPLE_HISTORY

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