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Premier League Matchday 5 · 2026-27

Matchday 5 · Premier League 2025-26 · September 20, 2025

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

West Ham 1–2 Crystal Palace: lucky or expected?

Crystal Palace beat West Ham 2–1, but the goals call it even: Crystal Palace win 3 of 10, West Ham 4, 3 end level. Rated on this season’s goals, West Ham were expected to score 1.3 here and Crystal Palace 1.3.

Full time

TeamGoals
West Ham United 1
Crystal Palace 2

September 20, 2025

Luck index +52 Crystal Palace lucky · −52 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. West Ham win 4, 3 end level, Crystal Palace win 3.

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

The goals

West Ham’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 West Ham was ahead in it, below while Crystal Palace was.
MinuteGoalScoreWin chance
1. 37' Jean-Philippe Mateta (Crystal Palace) 0–1 +30% Crystal Palace
2. 49' Jarrod Bowen (West Ham) 1–1 +32% West Ham
3. 68' Tyrick Mitchell (Crystal Palace) 1–2 +39% Crystal Palace

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. Crystal Palace win 48% of replays (a draw counted as half).

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