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Matchday 15 · Premier League 2025-26 · December 6, 2025

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

Aston Villa 2–1 Arsenal: lucky or expected?

Aston Villa beat Arsenal 2–1, but the goals lean toward Arsenal: 5 wins in 10 to Aston Villa’s 2, 3 end level. Rated on this season’s goals, Aston Villa were expected to score 1.0 here and Arsenal 1.6.

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Goals
Aston Villa 2
Arsenal 1

December 6, 2025

Luck index +62 Aston Villa very lucky · −62 Arsenal

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. Aston Villa win 2, 3 end level, Arsenal win 5.

  1. 1 AVL 1 ARS 0
  2. 2 AVL 2 ARS 0
  3. 3 AVL 2 ARS 2
  4. 4 AVL 0 ARS 0
  5. 5 AVL 1 ARS 1
  6. 6 AVL 1 ARS 4
  7. 7 AVL 0 ARS 2
  8. 8 AVL 1 ARS 3
  9. 9 AVL 0 ARS 1
  10. 10 AVL 1 ARS 2

The goals

Aston Villa’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 Aston Villa was ahead in it, below while Arsenal was.
MinuteGoalScoreWin chance
1. 36' Matty Cash (Aston Villa) 1–0 +27% Aston Villa
2. 52' Leandro Trossard (Arsenal) 1–1 +31% Arsenal
90+5' Emiliano Buendia (Aston Villa) 2–1

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. Aston Villa win 38% of replays (a draw counted as half).

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