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

📝 Match Report

How It Unfolded

Crystal Palace and Aston Villa finished level at 0-0 at Selhurst Park, Regular Season - 21, in the Premier League. 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 Crystal Palace 1.23 xG and Aston Villa 1.54 xG, a combined 2.77. The scoreboard read 0-0 for 0 actual goals. Crystal Palace fell 1.2 short of their projected output. Aston Villa landed 1.5 under their projected return. Those figures were built on strength ratings of Crystal Palace attack 0.73 / defence 0.99 against Aston Villa attack 1.25 / defence 1.12, drawn from 58/58 games (CurrentSeason).

On the result, the model split it Crystal Palace 28% | Draw 29% | Aston Villa 43%, with Aston Villa to win its most likely call at 43%. The actual draw had been the model's second-ranked read at 29%, so the result diverged from the top call without being a shock.

Goals & Markets

The model rated Over 2.5 goals at 52%. The game delivered 0, so it stayed under — against the model's lean. Over 1.5 had been 78% and missed. On both teams to score, the model sat at 57% and the match did not — a miss on BTTS. Historically the two sides average 54% Over 2.5 across their same-competition games (Crystal Palace 45%, Aston Villa 64%), a base rate that pointed the other way from today's under. Their combined BTTS history runs at 57%, which did not match the one-sided outcome.

Trading Patterns vs Reality

Crystal Palace's trading profile (58 games, 29 home) set some clear expectations: BTTS lands in 53% of their matches — today it did not; they keep a clean sheet 31% of the time, and duly kept one; they fail to score in 26% of games, a blank that repeated today.

Aston Villa's trading profile (58 games, 29 away) set some clear expectations: BTTS lands in 60% of their matches — today it did not.

Form vs Result

On form, Aston Villa arrived the stronger side — 1.86 PPG against 1.38. The form guide was only half-right: the stronger side did not lose, but could not convert the edge into a win. Crystal Palace (home/away splits) managed 0 against a 1.17 scoring average — below par going forward and conceded 0 against a 1.31 average — tighter than their form line. Aston Villa (home/away splits) managed 0 against a 1.34 scoring average — below par going forward and conceded 0 against a 1.62 average — tighter than their form line.

Verdict

Grading the result against the stored data, 0 of 4 pre-match signals came in: result (miss), Over 2.5 (miss), BTTS (miss), form (miss). This one broke away from the data — most of the pre-match signals were overturned by how the ninety minutes actually played out.

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