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Matchday 25 · Premier League 2025-26 · February 8, 2026

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

Liverpool 1–2 Man City: lucky or expected?

Man City beat Liverpool 2–1, and the goals lean Man City’s way: 5 wins in 10, 3 for Liverpool, 2 end level. Rated on this season’s goals, Liverpool were expected to score 1.4 here and Man City 1.8.

Full time

Goals
Liverpool 1
Manchester City 2

February 8, 2026

Luck index +41 Man City lucky · −41 Liverpool

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. Liverpool win 3, 2 end level, Man City win 5.

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

The goals

Liverpool’s chance of winning

As low as 0% and as high as 96%. 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 Liverpool was ahead in it, below while Man City was.
MinuteGoalScoreWin chance
1. 74' Dominik Szoboszlai (Liverpool) 1–0 +39% Liverpool
2. 84' Bernardo Silva (Man City) 1–1 +45% Man City
90+3' Erling Haaland (Man City, penalty) 1–2

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 59% of replays (a draw counted as half).

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