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West Brom cruise to a comfortable 2-0 victory over Bristol City.

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How It Unfolded

West Brom beat Bristol City 2-0 at The Hawthorns, Regular Season - 22, 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 West Brom 1.17 xG and Bristol City 0.83 xG, a combined 2.00. The scoreboard read 2-0 for 2 actual goals. West Brom beat their projection by 0.8 — clinical relative to the chances the model priced in. Bristol City landed 0.8 under their projected return. Those figures were built on strength ratings of West Brom attack 0.85 / defence 0.80 against Bristol City attack 1.01 / defence 0.98, drawn from 67/67 games (CurrentSeason).

On the result, the model split it West Brom 42% | Draw 34% | Bristol City 24%, with West Brom to win its most likely call at 42%. The result followed the model's preferred path, landing its top-rated outcome.

Goals & Markets

The model rated Over 2.5 goals at 32%. The game delivered 2, so it stayed under — in line with the projection. Over 1.5 had been 61% and landed. On both teams to score, the model sat at 41% and the match did not — another call in the model's favour. Historically the two sides average 41% Over 2.5 across their same-competition games (West Brom 43%, Bristol City 39%), a base rate that agreed with today's under. Their combined BTTS history runs at 47%, which matched the one-sided outcome.

Trading Patterns vs Reality

West Brom's trading profile (67 games, 33 home) set some clear expectations: BTTS lands in 46% of their matches — today it did not; they keep a clean sheet 43% of the time, and duly kept one.

Bristol City's trading profile (67 games, 33 away) set some clear expectations: BTTS lands in 48% of their matches — today it did not; they fail to score in 34% of games, a blank that repeated today.

Form vs Result

The form lines were close — West Brom 1.57 PPG, Bristol City 1.33 PPG — offering no strong steer, and the West Brom win broke the near-deadlock. Bristol City (home/away splits) managed 0 against a 1.00 scoring average — below par going forward.

Verdict

Grading the result against the stored data, 3 of 3 pre-match signals came in: result (hit), Over 2.5 (hit), BTTS (hit). A strong night for the model: the result sat comfortably inside what the pre-match data projected.

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