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Premier League Matchday 5 · 2026-27

Matchday 2 · Premier League 2025-26 · August 25, 2025

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

Newcastle 2–3 Liverpool: lucky or expected?

Liverpool beat Newcastle 3–2, but the goals call it even: Liverpool win 3 of 10, Newcastle 4, 3 end level. Rated on this season’s goals, Newcastle were expected to score 1.6 here and Liverpool 1.6.

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Goals
Newcastle United 2
Liverpool 3

August 25, 2025

Luck index +50 Liverpool lucky · −50 Newcastle

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. Newcastle win 4, 3 end level, Liverpool win 3.

  1. 1 NEW 2 LIV 1
  2. 2 NEW 2 LIV 1
  3. 3 NEW 2 LIV 0
  4. 4 NEW 3 LIV 0
  5. 5 NEW 1 LIV 1
  6. 6 NEW 1 LIV 1
  7. 7 NEW 0 LIV 0
  8. 8 NEW 0 LIV 3
  9. 9 NEW 0 LIV 2
  10. 10 NEW 3 LIV 4

The goals

Newcastle’s chance of winning

As low as 0% and as high as 57%. 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 Newcastle was ahead in it, below while Liverpool was.
MinuteGoalScoreWin chance
1. 35' Ryan Gravenberch (Liverpool) 0–1 +29% Liverpool
2. 46' Hugo Ekitike (Liverpool) 0–2 +16% Liverpool
3. 57' Bruno Guimaraes (Newcastle) 1–2 +15% Newcastle
4. 88' William Osula (Newcastle) 2–2 +49% Newcastle
90+10' Rio Ngumoha (Liverpool) 2–3

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. Liverpool win 50% of replays (a draw counted as half).

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