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Stalemate at Port Vale's ground as both sides cancel each other out in a goalless draw.

📝 Match Report

How It Unfolded

The points were shared at Vale Park, Regular Season - 2, as Port Vale and Cardiff drew 0-0 in the League One. 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 Port Vale 1.40 xG and Cardiff 1.11 xG, a combined 2.51. The scoreboard read 0-0 for 0 actual goals. Port Vale fell 1.4 short of their projected output. Cardiff landed 1.1 under their projected return. Those figures were built on strength ratings of Port Vale attack 0.87 / defence 1.15 against Cardiff attack 0.85 / defence 1.15, drawn from 1/1 games (Blended).

On the result, the model split it Port Vale 44% | Draw 27% | Cardiff 30%, with Port Vale to win its most likely call at 44%. The actual draw had been the model's second-ranked read at 27%, so the result diverged from the top call without being a shock.

Goals & Markets

The model rated Over 2.5 goals at 46%. The game delivered 0, so it stayed under — a call the model got right. Over 1.5 had been 71% and missed. On both teams to score, the model sat at 50% and the match did not — a miss on BTTS. Historically the two sides average 45% Over 2.5 across their same-competition games (Port Vale 45%, Cardiff 45%), a base rate that agreed with today's under. Their combined BTTS history runs at 53%, which did not match the one-sided outcome.

Trading Patterns vs Reality

Port Vale's trading profile (47 games, 23 home) set some clear expectations: BTTS lands in 49% of their matches — today it did not; they keep a clean sheet 38% of the time, and duly kept one.

Cardiff's trading profile (47 games, 23 away) set some clear expectations: BTTS lands in 57% of their matches — today it did not; they fail to score in 32% of games, a blank that repeated today.

Form vs Result

On form, Port Vale arrived the stronger side — 1.70 PPG against 1.00. The form guide was only half-right: the stronger side did not lose, but could not convert the edge into a win. Port Vale (home/away splits) managed 0 against a 1.48 scoring average — below par going forward. Cardiff (home/away splits) managed 0 against a 1.04 scoring average — below par going forward and conceded 0 against a 2.00 average — tighter than their form line.

Verdict

Grading the result against the stored data, 1 of 4 pre-match signals came in: result (miss), Over 2.5 (hit), BTTS (miss), form (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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