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Matchday 3 · Euro 2020 · June 21, 2021

Ukraine 0–1 Austria: who deserved to win?

Austria beat Ukraine 1–0, and the replays back it up: with the way both teams played, Austria win 7 of 10, 2 end level. Austria made the better chances: 1.5 expected goals to 0.4.

Full time

TeamGoalsxG
Ukraine 0 0.41
Austria 1 1.49

June 21, 2021 · Arena Naţională · Referee: Cüneyt Çakιr

Luck index +18 Austria about even · −18 Ukraine

Each team’s own shots from this match, resampled into new matches 4,000 times, each a goal at its expected-goals chance: with the way both teams actually played, how often does this performance win? How the replay works

Ten replays. Ukraine win 1, 2 end level, Austria win 7.

  1. 1 UKR 2 AUT 1
  2. 2 UKR 1 AUT 1
  3. 3 UKR 0 AUT 0
  4. 4 UKR 0 AUT 4
  5. 5 UKR 0 AUT 3
  6. 6 UKR 1 AUT 3
  7. 7 UKR 0 AUT 2
  8. 8 UKR 0 AUT 2
  9. 9 UKR 0 AUT 1
  10. 10 UKR 1 AUT 2

The narrowest view of luck

The same match, with only the coin flips re-rolled: every shot kept where and how it was taken, its outcome redrawn at its chance (75% of finishing counts as luck), own goals at the league’s rate.

There is no betting line for this match, and no forecast from before kickoff: matches of past seasons are replayed, not forecast.

How 4,000 replays of the 90 minutes ended

Ukraine win 8%, 21% end level, Austria win 71%. The line is what actually happened: Austria by 1.

Show as a table
After 90 minutes in the replaysShare of replays
Ukraine by 3+0.3%
Ukraine by 21.0%
Ukraine by 16.3%
Draw21.4%
Austria by 127.4%
Austria by 222.7%
Austria by 3+21.0%

Where the luck was

FinishingShotsGoalsExpected goalsAbove expected
Ukraine500.41−0.41
Austria1811.49−0.49

Own goals aren’t shots, so they’re counted on their own. A side above expected finished better than its chances, or met a goalkeeper on a bad day; 75% of the gap counts as luck (why that share).

The big chances, and every goal

MinuteChancexG
20'Christoph Baumgartner scored from a shot0.19
41'Marko Arnautović didn’t score from a shot0.38

When it happened

Ukraine’s chance of winning

Numbers mark the biggest luck moments, 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 Ukraine was ahead in it, below while Austria was.
#WhenWhat happenedWin probability for
1 10' Aleksandar Dragović didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 8% chance +2% UKR
2 20' Christoph Baumgartner scored from a shotFinishing · 19% chance +21% AUT
3 28' Mykola Shaparenko didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 6% chance +2% AUT
4 41' Marko Arnautović didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 38% chance +5% UKR
5 46' Serhii Sydorchuk didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 5% chance +2% AUT
6 46' Marko Arnautović didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 20% chance +3% UKR
7 51' Roman Yaremchuk didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 19% chance +6% AUT
8 60' Oleksandr Karavaev didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 9% chance +3% AUT

Adjust the assumptions

Think finishing is more skill than we do? Change how much of it counts as luck and the coin-flip replay of the 90 minutes reruns in your browser.

Only coin-flips re-rolled

Ukraine 10% · draw 23% · Austria 67%

Final margin
Austria by 1
Luck in goals
0.1 for Ukraine
Luck-adjusted margin
Austria by 1.1
Replay with same day's form
Ukraine 8% · draw 21% · Austria 71% unchanged: why
How much of each is luck?

0% treats it as skill, 100% as pure luck. The tick is our fit.

What counts
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Force the other outcome, in this match and in every replay: a goal becomes a save, a chance goes in.

About these numbers

Expected goals per shot from StatsBomb’s open data; the replays, the in-game win probability and the luck shares are our own models, fitted and tested on every shot of four full league seasons and four tournaments, these matches included (methodology and validation). Austria win 82% of replays (a draw counted as half).

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