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Dominant Coventry run riot with a 0-5 hammering of Sheffield Wednesday.

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How It Unfolded

Coventry beat Sheffield Wednesday 0-5 at Hillsborough, Regular Season - 9, 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 Sheffield Wednesday 0.89 xG and Coventry 2.18 xG, a combined 3.07. The scoreboard read 0-5 for 5 actual goals. Sheffield Wednesday fell 0.9 short of their projected output. Coventry outscored their 2.18 projection by 2.8. Those figures were built on strength ratings of Sheffield Wednesday attack 0.70 / defence 1.32 against Coventry attack 1.41 / defence 1.06, drawn from 54/54 games (CurrentSeason).

On the result, the model split it Sheffield Wednesday 13% | Draw 20% | Coventry 66%, with Coventry to win its most likely call at 66%. That is exactly how it finished — the model's leading outcome was vindicated.

Goals & Markets

The model rated Over 2.5 goals at 59%. The game delivered 5, so it went over — a call the model got right. Over 1.5 had been 82% and landed. Over 3.5 was 37% and came in. On both teams to score, the model sat at 53% and the match did not — a miss on BTTS. Historically the two sides average 54% Over 2.5 across their same-competition games (Sheffield Wednesday 54%, Coventry 54%), a base rate that agreed with today's over. Their combined BTTS history runs at 54%, which did not match the one-sided outcome.

Trading Patterns vs Reality

Sheffield Wednesday's trading profile (54 games, 27 home) set some clear expectations: BTTS lands in 54% of their matches — today it did not; they fail to score in 32% of games, a blank that repeated today.

Coventry's trading profile (54 games, 27 away) set some clear expectations: BTTS lands in 54% of their matches — today it did not; they keep a clean sheet 32% of the time, and duly kept one.

Form vs Result

The form lines were close — Sheffield Wednesday 1.19 PPG, Coventry 1.54 PPG — offering no strong steer, and the Coventry win broke the near-deadlock. Sheffield Wednesday (home/away splits) managed 0 against a 1.15 scoring average — below par going forward and shipped 5 against a 1.52 concession average — a leakier day than usual. Coventry (home/away splits) scored 5 against a 1.33 average — above their attacking norm and conceded 0 against a 1.44 average — tighter than their form line.

Verdict

Grading the result against the stored data, 2 of 3 pre-match signals came in: result (hit), Over 2.5 (hit), BTTS (miss). The model got the gist right while missing on the margins.

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