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Championship10/17/2026, 02:00 PM

Birmingham City – Queens Park Rangers3 : 0

Why the model thinks so

Birmingham City
1.54
Total xG
2.70
Queens Park Rangers
1.15
Expected goals from our model, before kickoff

How the model gets there: each factor adds goals to or takes goals from one team's expected goals.

FactorBirmingham CityQueens Park Rangers
High-scoring league (2.9 goals/match)+0.42+0.42
3 of last 5 matches with 2+ goals (2 goals/match)+0.18
Rising form (2 vs 1.4 season average)+0.18
Rising form (2 vs 1.6 season average)+0.13
Small sample (5 matches) - regression to mean+0.07
Small sample (5 matches) - regression to mean+0.06
3 of last 5 matches with 0-1 goals (1.6 goals/match)+0.01
Carlos Vicente on the bench (2 goals, 0 assists)
Nicolas Madsen on the bench (2 goals, 1 assists)
14% of goal output missing (only 80% available)

Key factors

  • Home/Away: Birmingham scores 2.2 goals per match at home in the league, Queens Park Rangers 1.4 per match away
  • Shots: Birmingham averaged 6.2 shots on target per match in the last 5 matches, Queens Park Rangers 4.4 per match

Risks

  • Defense: Queens Park Rangers conceded 0.8 goals per match away in the league this season
  • Form: Queens Park Rangers remained undefeated in their last 5 matches with 1 win and 4 draws

All probabilities

Result
Birmingham City45%
Draw28%
Queens Park Rangers27%
Double chance
Birmingham City or draw73%
Queens Park Rangers or draw55%
No draw72%
Goals
Over 1.577%
Under 1.523%
Over 2.551%
Under 2.549%
Over 3.529%
Under 3.571%
Both teams score
Yes55%
No45%

Most likely scores

1:1
14%
2:1
9%
2:0
8%
1:2
7%
2:2
5%
3:0
Final score

The Lab

Patterns our system found in the data.

  1. Birmingham City: 35% of all goals between minutes 31-45 (7 of 20)
  2. Queens Park Rangers: 35% of all goals between minutes 31-45 (6 of 17)

Lineups

Birmingham City 4-2-3-1 · Queens Park Rangers 5-4-1

Birmingham City
  • 1 J. Beadle
  • 26 B. Osayi-Samuel
  • 5 P. Neumann
  • 4 C. Klarer
  • 20 A. Cochrane
  • 24 T. Iwata
  • 14 J. Solis Romero
  • 16 P. Roberts
  • 28 J. Stansfield
  • 17 L. Millar
  • 9 A. Priske
Queens Park Rangers
  • 1 P. Charles
  • 2 K. Adamson
  • 3 J. Dunne
  • 5 R. Edwards
  • 6 J. Clarke-Salter
  • 12 B. Kemper
  • 17 K. Poku
  • 20 H. Vale
  • 18 G. Kamara
  • 11 P. Smyth
  • 26 R. Kolli
Substitutes
  • 7 C. Vicente Robles
  • 19 T. Gardner-Hickman
  • 21 R. Allsop
  • 33 M. Ducksch
  • 10 D. Gray
  • 2 E. Laird
  • 23 D. Fry
  • 18 M. Bird
  • 32 L. Vásquez
  • 25 J. Obikwu
  • 40 J. Varane
  • 14 K. Saito
  • 24 N. Hautorp Madsen
  • 23 I. Alemayehu Mulugeta
  • 22 R. Kone
  • 4 L. Morrison
  • 13 C. Ward
  • 33 L. Scarlett

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