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.
Wolves 0–4 Man City: lucky or expected?
Man City beat Wolves 4–0, and the goals back it up: from both teams’ goals this season, Man City win 7 of 10, 2 end level. Rated on this season’s goals, Wolves were expected to score 0.5 here and Man City 2.2.
Full time
| Team | Goals |
|---|---|
 Wolverhampton Wanderers | 0 |
 Manchester City | 4 |
What the goals say
Luck index +17 Man City about even · −17 Wolves
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. Wolves win 1, 2 end level, Man City win 7.
- 1 WOL 2 MCI 1
- 2 WOL 1 MCI 1
- 3 WOL 2 MCI 2
- 4 WOL 0 MCI 5
- 5 WOL 0 MCI 3
- 6 WOL 0 MCI 2
- 7 WOL 0 MCI 2
- 8 WOL 1 MCI 2
- 9 WOL 1 MCI 2
- 10 WOL 2 MCI 3
The goals
Wolves’s chance of winning
As low as 0% and as high as 57%. Numbers mark the goals, listed below.
| Minute | Goal | Score | Win chance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. 34' | Erling Haaland (Man City) | 0–1 | +29% Man City |
| 2. 37' | Tijjani Reijnders (Man City) | 0–2 | +17% Man City |
| 3. 61' | Erling Haaland (Man City) | 0–3 | +3% Man City |
| 4. 81' | Rayan Cherki (Man City) | 0–4 | +0% Man City |
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. Man City win 83% of replays (a draw counted as half).
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