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Matchday 8 · La Liga 2025-26 · October 5, 2025

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

Real Sociedad 0–1 Rayo: lucky or expected?

Rayo beat Real Sociedad 1–0, but the goals lean toward Real Sociedad: 5 wins in 10 to Rayo’s 2, 3 end level. Rated on this season’s goals, Real Sociedad were expected to score 1.5 here and Rayo 1.2.

Full time

Goals
Real Sociedad 0
Rayo Vallecano 1

October 5, 2025

Luck index +59 Rayo lucky · −59 Real Sociedad

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. Real Sociedad win 5, 3 end level, Rayo win 2.

  1. 1 RSO 1 RAY 0
  2. 2 RSO 1 RAY 0
  3. 3 RSO 3 RAY 2
  4. 4 RSO 2 RAY 0
  5. 5 RSO 3 RAY 0
  6. 6 RSO 1 RAY 1
  7. 7 RSO 1 RAY 1
  8. 8 RSO 1 RAY 1
  9. 9 RSO 0 RAY 2
  10. 10 RSO 1 RAY 2

The goals

Real Sociedad’s chance of winning

As low as 0% and as high as 60%. 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 Real Sociedad was ahead in it, below while Rayo was.
MinuteGoalScoreWin chance
1. 84' Pacha Espino (Rayo) 0–1 +47% Rayo

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). It 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. Rayo win 41% of replays (a draw counted as half).

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