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Dominant Millwall run riot with a 3-0 hammering of West Brom.

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How It Unfolded

Millwall beat West Brom 3-0 at The Den, Regular Season - 9, in the Championship. The remainder of the report sets that outcome against the pre-match model, the markets and the teams' data profiles.

The Model vs The Result

The Poisson model went into this projecting Millwall 0.77 xG and West Brom 1.42 xG, a combined 2.19. The scoreboard read 3-0 for 3 actual goals. Millwall beat their projection by 2.2 — clinical relative to the chances the model priced in. West Brom landed 1.4 under their projected return. Those figures were built on strength ratings of Millwall attack 0.70 / defence 1.21 against West Brom attack 0.99 / defence 0.92, drawn from 54/54 games (CurrentSeason).

On the result, the model split it Millwall 19% | Draw 29% | West Brom 51%, with West Brom to win its most likely call at 51%. Instead the game produced a Millwall win, an outcome the model had rated at just 19% — a clear break from expectation and a genuine upset by the numbers.

Goals & Markets

The model rated Over 2.5 goals at 37%. The game delivered 3, so it went over — against the model's lean. Over 1.5 had been 65% and landed. On both teams to score, the model sat at 42% and the match did not — another call in the model's favour. Historically the two sides average 33% Over 2.5 across their same-competition games (Millwall 32%, West Brom 35%), a base rate that pointed the other way from today's over. Their combined BTTS history runs at 49%, which matched the one-sided outcome.

Trading Patterns vs Reality

Millwall's trading profile (54 games, 27 home) set some clear expectations: BTTS lands in 43% of their matches — today it did not; they keep a clean sheet 33% of the time, and duly kept one.

West Brom's trading profile (54 games, 27 away) set some clear expectations: BTTS lands in 56% of their matches — today it did not; they keep a clean sheet 32% of the time, and conceded here; they fail to score in 26% of games, a blank that repeated today.

Form vs Result

The form lines were close — Millwall 1.43 PPG, West Brom 1.44 PPG — offering no strong steer, and the Millwall win broke the near-deadlock. Millwall (home/away splits) scored 3 against a 1.04 average — above their attacking norm and conceded 0 against a 1.04 average — tighter than their form line. West Brom (home/away splits) managed 0 against a 1.11 scoring average — below par going forward and shipped 3 against a 1.15 concession average — a leakier day than usual.

Verdict

Grading the result against the stored data, 1 of 3 pre-match signals came in: result (miss), Over 2.5 (miss), BTTS (hit). This one broke away from the data — most of the pre-match signals were overturned by how the ninety minutes actually played out.

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