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Bundesliga Matchday 9 · 2026-27

Matchday 8 · Bundesliga 2025-26 · October 24, 2025

Goals only: this source has no shots, so the replay comes from each side's goals over the season.

Werder 1–0 Union Berlin: lucky or expected?

Werder beat Union Berlin 1–0, but the goals call it even: Werder win 4 of 10, Union Berlin 3, 3 end level. Rated on this season’s goals, Werder were expected to score 1.3 here and Union Berlin 1.3.

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Goals
Werder Bremen 1
Union Berlin 0

October 24, 2025

Luck index +49 Werder lucky · −49 Union Berlin

Our source has this match’s goals but not its shots, so it is replayed from what each side’s goals over the season say: both teams rated on every goal scored and conceded, and the match played again 4,000 times from those ratings. How often does this result come out? How the goals-only replay works

Ten replays. Werder win 4, 3 end level, Union Berlin win 3.

  1. 1 SVW 1 FCU 0
  2. 2 SVW 3 FCU 2
  3. 3 SVW 3 FCU 1
  4. 4 SVW 3 FCU 0
  5. 5 SVW 0 FCU 0
  6. 6 SVW 1 FCU 1
  7. 7 SVW 0 FCU 0
  8. 8 SVW 0 FCU 2
  9. 9 SVW 0 FCU 1
  10. 10 SVW 0 FCU 1

The goals

Werder’s chance of winning

Numbers mark the goals, listed below.

Our in-game win probability: the score and the minutes left, with goals for the rest of the match at the league’s rates. A draw counts half, as in the replays. Shaded above the middle while Werder was ahead in it, below while Union Berlin was.
MinuteGoalScoreWin chance
1. 72' Marco Gruell (Werder) 1–0 +37% Werder

Win chance: the scoring side’s chance of winning the moment before the goal against the moment after it, from the score and the minutes left. A draw counts half.

About these numbers

Scores and goals from openfootball (public domain), the newest also from OpenLigaDB (Open Database License). Neither has no shots, so there is no expected goals for this match and no finishing luck: the replay, the in-game win probability and the luck index are our own models, built from the season’s goals alone (methodology and validation). The luck index is how far the result was from what the goals say. Werder win 51% of replays (a draw counted as half).

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