Saturday 5 Sept, 17:30 · engine xGB Core v1 · doesn't know lineups or injuries · reassessed after this week's earlier results (rev 5)

Hull City

39Index28Attack55Defense
WWLLL
49%AVL WIN
12
Likeliest AVL win · 10%

Aston Villa

46Index51Attack42Defense
LWWDL
HULL 26%DRAW 25%ASTON VILLA 49%
Over 2.5 goals
58%
Both teams score
60%
Expected goals
1.3 · 1.8
Why
Head to head · 2 league meetings since 2014/15
HUL 10 drawn1 AVL
2014/15HUL20AVL2015-02-10
2014/15AVL21HUL2014-08-31
Hull — projected scorers

No qualified projections yet.

Aston Villa — projected scorers
Ollie Watkins42%16% ast60'
Ross Barkley17%20% ast76'
John McGinn5%27% ast53'
Emiliano Buendía9%22% ast57'
Ian Maatsen4%19% ast69'
Tyrone Mings8%0% ast56'

Projections assume recent minutes patterns — the model doesn’t know lineups.

What the grid implies
Goals
Over 1.5 goals81%
Over 2.5 goals58%
Over 3.5 goals36%
Both teams score60%
Double chance
HUL or draw51%
Draw or AVL74%
HUL or AVLno draw75%
Draw no bet
HULstake returned on a draw35%
AVL65%
Clean sheets
HUL clean sheet17%
AVL clean sheet29%

Model probabilities, not odds and not advice. Our own leaderboard shows no model here beats the closing market once the bookmaker’s margin is paid.

Every scoreline, priced — tap a cell
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Darker green = likelier. Rows are HUL goals, columns AVL. Scores of six or more each way carry the remaining probability.
Price movement — 5 pre-kickoff assessments, every one kept
30 Aug, 20:24HUL 26.0% (−0.2 since first)draw 25.4%AVL 48.6%
What this is built from
The engine weighs
  • Chance quality created and conceded, both sides, all season
  • Opponent strength and venue
  • Recent play, weighted toward now
It cannot see
  • Confirmed lineups
  • Injuries and suspensions
  • Cup rotation plans

Thin evidence: the engine has seen little recent top-flight data on Hull — this assessment leans on conservative defaults more than usual.

Engine internals are proprietary. The complete performance record — including every miss — is public on the record.