Round of 16 · Euro 2020 · June 26, 2021
Wales 0–4 Denmark: who deserved to win?
Denmark beat Wales 4–0, and the replays back it up: with the way both teams played, Denmark go through 9 times in 10. Denmark made the better chances: 2.2 expected goals to 0.6.
Replay with same day's form: who goes through
Luck index +8 Denmark about even · −8 Wales
Each team’s own shots from this match, resampled into new matches 4,000 times, each a goal at its expected-goals chance, a level 90 minutes going to extra time and then penalties as a coin flip: with the way both teams actually played, how often does this performance win? How the replay works
Ten replays of the 90 minutes. Wales win 0, 1 ends level, Denmark win 9.
- 1 WAL 1 DEN 1
- 2 WAL 0 DEN 6
- 3 WAL 2 DEN 6
- 4 WAL 0 DEN 3
- 5 WAL 3 DEN 6
- 6 WAL 1 DEN 4
- 7 WAL 0 DEN 2
- 8 WAL 1 DEN 3
- 9 WAL 2 DEN 3
- 10 WAL 0 DEN 1
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. Shown for the 90 minutes.
Only coin-flips re-rolled
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
Wales win 4%, 9% end level, Denmark win 86%. The line is what actually happened: Denmark by 4.
Show as a table
| After 90 minutes in the replays | Share of replays |
|---|---|
| Wales by 3+ | 0.1% |
| Wales by 2 | 1.0% |
| Wales by 1 | 3.1% |
| Draw | 9.4% |
| Denmark by 1 | 18.6% |
| Denmark by 2 | 22.4% |
| Denmark by 3+ | 45.4% |
Where the luck was
| Finishing | Shots | Goals | Expected goals | Above expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Wales | 11 | 0 | 0.60 | −0.60 |
 Denmark | 16 | 4 | 2.16 | +1.84 |
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
| Minute | Chance | xG |
|---|---|---|
| 26' | Kasper Dolberg scored from a shot | 0.05 |
| 31' | Kasper Dolberg didn’t score from a shot | 0.46 |
| 47' | Kasper Dolberg scored from a shot | 0.21 |
| 85' | Martin Braithwaite Christensen didn’t score from a shot | 0.58 |
| 87' | Joakim Mæhle scored from a shot | 0.18 |
| 93' | Martin Braithwaite Christensen scored from a shot | 0.10 |
When it happened
Wales’s chance of winning
Numbers mark the biggest luck moments, listed below.
| # | When | What happened | Win probability for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4' | Chris Mepham didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 4% chance | +1% DEN |
| 2 | 10' | Aaron Ramsey didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 6% chance | +2% DEN |
| 3 | 10' | Aaron Ramsey didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 8% chance | +2% DEN |
| 4 | 23' | Jannik Vestergaard didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 12% chance | +3% WAL |
| 5 | 26' | Kasper Dolberg scored from a shotFinishing · 5% chance | +26% DEN |
| 6 | 31' | Kasper Dolberg didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 46% chance | +7% WAL |
| 7 | 47' | Kasper Dolberg scored from a shotFinishing · 21% chance | +11% DEN |
| 8 | 52' | Gareth Frank Bale didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 18% chance | +2% DEN |
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). Denmark go through in 92% of replays (a draw counted as half).
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