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

📝 Match Report

How It Unfolded

The points were shared at Colchester Community Stadium, Regular Season - 37, as Colchester and Crawley Town drew 0-0 in the League Two. 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 Colchester 1.85 xG and Crawley Town 0.56 xG, a combined 2.41. The scoreboard read 0-0 for 0 actual goals. Colchester fell 1.9 short of their projected output. Those figures were built on strength ratings of Colchester attack 1.18 / defence 0.81 against Crawley Town attack 0.57 / defence 1.26, drawn from 81/36 games (CurrentSeason).

On the result, the model split it Colchester 69% | Draw 21% | Crawley Town 10%, with Colchester to win its most likely call at 69%. Instead the game produced a draw, an outcome the model had rated at just 21% — a clear break from expectation and a genuine upset by the numbers.

Goals & Markets

The model rated Over 2.5 goals at 43%. The game delivered 0, so it stayed under — in line with the projection. Over 1.5 had been 69% and missed. On both teams to score, the model sat at 36% and the match did not — another call in the model's favour. Historically the two sides average 44% Over 2.5 across their same-competition games (Colchester 35%, Crawley Town 53%), a base rate that agreed with today's under. Their combined BTTS history runs at 50%, which did not match the one-sided outcome.

Trading Patterns vs Reality

Colchester's trading profile (81 games, 40 home) set some clear expectations: BTTS lands in 49% of their matches — today it did not; they keep a clean sheet 36% of the time, and duly kept one; they fail to score in 27% of games, a blank that repeated today.

Crawley Town's trading profile (81 games, 40 away) set some clear expectations: BTTS lands in 51% of their matches — today it did not; they fail to score in 35% of games, a blank that repeated today.

Form vs Result

On form, Colchester arrived the stronger side — 1.47 PPG against 0.89. The form guide was only half-right: the stronger side did not lose, but could not convert the edge into a win. Colchester (home/away splits) managed 0 against a 1.40 scoring average — below par going forward and conceded 0 against a 0.80 average — tighter than their form line. Crawley Town (home/away splits) managed 0 against a 0.92 scoring average — below par going forward and conceded 0 against a 2.02 average — tighter than their form line.

Verdict

Grading the result against the stored data, 2 of 4 pre-match signals came in: result (miss), Over 2.5 (hit), BTTS (hit), form (miss). Partial vindication: some calls landed, others slipped.

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