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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

The points were shared at Selhurst Park, Regular Season - 33, as Crystal Palace and Bournemouth drew 0-0 in the Premier League. 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 Crystal Palace 1.66 xG and Bournemouth 1.73 xG, a combined 3.38. The scoreboard read 0-0 for 0 actual goals. Crystal Palace fell 1.7 short of their projected output. Bournemouth landed 1.7 under their projected return. Those figures were built on strength ratings of Crystal Palace attack 1.02 / defence 0.98 against Bournemouth attack 1.23 / defence 1.09, drawn from 70/70 games (CurrentSeason).

On the result, the model split it Crystal Palace 37% | Draw 23% | Bournemouth 40%, with Bournemouth to win its most likely call at 40%. Instead the game produced a draw, an outcome the model had rated at just 23% — a clear break from expectation and a genuine upset by the numbers.

Goals & Markets

The model rated Over 2.5 goals at 66%. The game delivered 0, so it stayed under — the opposite of the projected direction. Over 1.5 had been 85% and missed. Over 3.5 was 44% and did not. On both teams to score, the model sat at 67% and the match did not — a miss on BTTS. Historically the two sides average 59% Over 2.5 across their same-competition games (Crystal Palace 51%, Bournemouth 66%), a base rate that pointed the other way from today's under. Their combined BTTS history runs at 60%, which did not match the one-sided outcome.

Trading Patterns vs Reality

Crystal Palace's trading profile (70 games, 35 home) set some clear expectations: BTTS lands in 59% of their matches — today it did not.

Bournemouth's trading profile (70 games, 35 away) set some clear expectations: BTTS lands in 61% of their matches — today it did not.

Form vs Result

The form lines were close — Crystal Palace 1.31 PPG, Bournemouth 1.37 PPG — offering no strong steer, and the draw fit that even billing. Crystal Palace (home/away splits) managed 0 against a 1.60 scoring average — below par going forward and conceded 0 against a 1.40 average — tighter than their form line. Bournemouth (home/away splits) managed 0 against a 1.69 scoring average — below par going forward and conceded 0 against a 1.86 average — tighter than their form line.

Verdict

Grading the result against the stored data, 0 of 3 pre-match signals came in: result (miss), Over 2.5 (miss), BTTS (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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