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Premier League Matchday 5 · 2026-27

Matchday 1 · Premier League 2025-26 · August 16, 2025

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

Sunderland 3–0 West Ham: lucky or expected?

Sunderland beat West Ham 3–0, and the goals lean Sunderland’s way: 5 wins in 10, 2 for West Ham, 3 end level. Rated on this season’s goals, Sunderland were expected to score 1.6 here and West Ham 0.9.

Full time

Goals
Sunderland 3
West Ham United 0

August 16, 2025

Luck index +35 Sunderland lucky · −35 West Ham

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. Sunderland win 5, 3 end level, West Ham win 2.

  1. 1 SUN 1 WHU 0
  2. 2 SUN 1 WHU 0
  3. 3 SUN 2 WHU 0
  4. 4 SUN 2 WHU 0
  5. 5 SUN 3 WHU 0
  6. 6 SUN 0 WHU 0
  7. 7 SUN 2 WHU 2
  8. 8 SUN 2 WHU 2
  9. 9 SUN 1 WHU 3
  10. 10 SUN 1 WHU 2

The goals

Sunderland’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 Sunderland was ahead in it, below while West Ham was.
MinuteGoalScoreWin chance
1. 61' Eliezer Mayenda (Sunderland) 1–0 +34% Sunderland
2. 73' Daniel Ballard (Sunderland) 2–0 +8% Sunderland
90+2' Wilson Isidor (Sunderland) 3–0

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. Sunderland win 65% of replays (a draw counted as half).

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