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Full time · Championship · Sat 15 Aug 2026, 17:30 UTC

Sheffield Utd 00 Birmingham

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What the chances were worth

Sheffield Utd
0.36
expected goals (xG)
Birmingham
0.65
expected goals (xG)

The scoreline says 0–0; by chance quality the match ran 0.36–0.65.

What the model expected

Its probabilities for this match, logged before kick-off and never changed. The result is highlighted.

Sheffield Utd
42%
Draw
27%
Birmingham
31%

Before kick-off the model favoured Sheffield Utd to win (42%); it finished with the draw. A miss — it gave the actual result 27% beforehand.

One match tells you nothing on its own — whether these percentages are any good is the whole point of the calibration page, where every one of them is scored.

The brain read

Little between them on chances created — the xG read 0.4–0.7, shots 3–10 with 1–2 on target. Birmingham got into the box far more often (6 shots inside it to 3). A 0–0 draw the numbers agree with.

A second opinion written by rule from the numbers on this page — where the shot picture and the xG disagree, it says so rather than picking a winner. Backward-looking only; it claims nothing about any future result.

The match in numbers

Sheffield Utd
Birmingham
45%
Ball Possession
55%
3
Total Shots
10
1
Shots on Goal
2
2
Shots off Goal
5
0
Blocked Shots
3
3
Shots inside box
6
0
Shots outside box
4
0.36
Expected goals (xG)
0.65
2
Corner Kicks
8
2
Offsides
3
306
Total passes
372
194
Passes accurate
254
63%
Passes %
68%
12
Fouls
12
2
Goalkeeper Saves
1
0.04
Goals prevented
0.04

As returned by the data feed at full time. Bars show each side’s share of the stat.

The market’s read

Sheffield Utd
40%
market implied · price 2.36 · opened 38%
Draw
29%
market implied · price 3.27 · opened 29%
Birmingham
32%
market implied · price 2.96 · opened 33%
MarketConsensus priceImplied chanceMove
Double chance Sheffield Utd or draw1.3768.2%+1.5 pts
Double chance Birmingham or draw1.5560.2%-1.6 pts
Double chance either team1.3171.6%+0.1 pts
Draw no bet — Sheffield Utd1.6955.3%+2.2 pts
Draw no bet — Birmingham2.0944.7%-2.2 pts
Over 1.5 goals1.3071.7%+0.4 pts
Over 2.5 goals1.9947.5%+0.2 pts
Over 3.5 goals3.4227.2%+0.1 pts
Both teams to score1.7353.6%+0.4 pts
Sheffield Utd over 1.5 team goals2.2940.6%+1.6 pts
Birmingham over 1.5 team goals2.7134.4%-0.8 pts
Sheffield Utd clean sheet3.0530.6%+0.7 pts
Birmingham clean sheet3.5226.4%-0.9 pts

Shortest-priced scorelines: 1-1 5.89 · 1-0 7.43 · 0-1 8.60 · 2-1 8.61 · 0-0 9.10

Consensus of bookmaker prices captured 2026-08-15 18:40 UTC. These are the closing prices — the market’s last word before kick-off. The Move column is how each market’s implied chance has shifted since the first price we captured: green = the chance has risen (the price shortened, backing coming in), red = the chance has fallen (the price eased out — what punters call the price ‘drifting’).

Prices are observations, not offers. Each price is the average across the bookmakers the collector sees, and the implied chance is that price with the bookmaker’s margin stripped out. The market’s read is published so the model’s read can be judged against it — nothing here is advice, and nothing here is staked.

Head to head

DateHomeScoreAway
14 Mar 26Birmingham1-1Sheffield Utd
20 Dec 25Sheffield Utd3-0Birmingham