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Sheffield Wednesday cruise to a comfortable 0-2 victory over Portsmouth.

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How It Unfolded

Sheffield Wednesday beat Portsmouth 0-2 at Fratton Park, Regular Season - 6, in the Championship. With the result on the board, the sections below measure it against everything the model and the numbers projected in advance.

The Model vs The Result

The Poisson model went into this projecting Portsmouth 1.51 xG and Sheffield Wednesday 1.11 xG, a combined 2.63. The scoreboard read 0-2 for 2 actual goals. Portsmouth fell 1.5 short of their projected output. Sheffield Wednesday outscored their 1.11 projection by 0.9. Those figures were built on strength ratings of Portsmouth attack 1.01 / defence 0.91 against Sheffield Wednesday attack 1.05 / defence 1.19, drawn from 51/51 games (CurrentSeason).

On the result, the model split it Portsmouth 46% | Draw 26% | Sheffield Wednesday 28%, with Portsmouth to win its most likely call at 46%. The actual Sheffield Wednesday win had been the model's second-ranked read at 28%, so the result diverged from the top call without being a shock.

Goals & Markets

The model rated Over 2.5 goals at 49%. The game delivered 2, so it stayed under — a call the model got right. Over 1.5 had been 74% and landed. On both teams to score, the model sat at 52% and the match did not — a miss on BTTS. Historically the two sides average 56% Over 2.5 across their same-competition games (Portsmouth 57%, Sheffield Wednesday 55%), a base rate that pointed the other way from today's under. Their combined BTTS history runs at 54%, which did not match the one-sided outcome.

Trading Patterns vs Reality

Portsmouth's trading profile (51 games, 25 home) set some clear expectations: BTTS lands in 55% of their matches — today it did not; they fail to score in 29% of games, a blank that repeated today.

Sheffield Wednesday's trading profile (51 games, 25 away) set some clear expectations: BTTS lands in 53% of their matches — today it did not.

Form vs Result

The form lines were close — Portsmouth 1.22 PPG, Sheffield Wednesday 1.16 PPG — offering no strong steer, and the Sheffield Wednesday win broke the near-deadlock. Portsmouth (home/away splits) managed 0 against a 1.40 scoring average — below par going forward and shipped 2 against a 0.92 concession average — a leakier day than usual. Sheffield Wednesday (home/away splits) conceded 0 against a 1.64 average — tighter than their form line.

Verdict

Grading the result against the stored data, 1 of 3 pre-match signals came in: result (miss), Over 2.5 (hit), BTTS (miss). The data was on the wrong side of this result more often than not — a reminder that a single match sits well inside the model's variance.

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