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Matchday 34 · Premier League 2015-16 · April 16, 2016

Everton 1–1 Southampton: who deserved to win?

Everton and Southampton drew 1–1. Replayed with the way both teams played, Everton win 1 of 10, Southampton 6, and 3 end level. Southampton made the better chances: 1.4 expected goals to 0.3.

Full time

TeamGoalsxG
Everton 1 0.32
Southampton 1 1.45

April 16, 2016 · Goodison Park · Referee: Craig Pawson

Luck index +28 Everton lucky for the draw

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. Everton win 1, 3 end level, Southampton win 6.

  1. 1 EVE 1 SOU 0
  2. 2 EVE 1 SOU 1
  3. 3 EVE 1 SOU 1
  4. 4 EVE 0 SOU 0
  5. 5 EVE 0 SOU 3
  6. 6 EVE 0 SOU 2
  7. 7 EVE 0 SOU 2
  8. 8 EVE 0 SOU 1
  9. 9 EVE 0 SOU 1
  10. 10 EVE 0 SOU 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.

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

Everton win 9%, 26% end level, Southampton win 65%. The line is what actually happened: Draw.

Show as a table
After 90 minutes in the replaysShare of replays
Everton by 3+0.2%
Everton by 21.2%
Everton by 17.5%
Draw25.9%
Southampton by 130.6%
Southampton by 220.9%
Southampton by 3+13.8%

Where the luck was

FinishingShotsGoalsExpected goalsAbove expected
Everton710.32+0.68
Southampton1811.45−0.45

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
67'José Ramiro Funes Mori scored from a shot0.05
75'Sadio Mané scored from a shot0.31

When it happened

Everton’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 Everton was ahead in it, below while Southampton was.
#WhenWhat happenedWin probability for
1 19' Dušan Tadić didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 18% chance +5% EVE
2 49' Dušan Tadić didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 8% chance +3% EVE
3 62' Graziano Pellè didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 27% chance +10% EVE
4 67' José Ramiro Funes Mori scored from a shotFinishing · 5% chance +35% EVE
5 75' Sadio Mané scored from a shotFinishing · 31% chance +28% SOU
6 78' Jordy Clasie didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 9% chance +4% EVE
7 78' Shane Long didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 7% chance +3% EVE
8 84' Kevin Mirallas didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 6% chance +3% SOU

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

Everton 8% · draw 24% · Southampton 68%

Final margin
even
Luck in goals
0.9 for Everton
Luck-adjusted margin
Southampton by 0.9
Replay with same day's form
Everton 9% · draw 26% · Southampton 65% unchanged: why
How much of each is luck?

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

What counts
Flip a play

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).

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