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Full time · Premier League · Sat 22 Aug 2026, 15:00 UTC

Everton 20 Crystal Palace

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What the chances were worth

Everton
1.01
expected goals (xG)
Crystal Palace
1.65
expected goals (xG)

The scoreline says 2–0; by chance quality the match ran 1.01–1.65.

What the model expected

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

Everton
39%
Draw
28%
Crystal Palace
34%

The model made Everton to win its most likely call before kick-off, and that is what happened. It had the result at 39% 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

The xG read 1–1.6 in Crystal Palace's favour, but the shot count told the opposite story — 12–6 overall and 4–2 on target went Everton's way. The two pictures disagree, and aggregate counts can't see the quality of individual chances — so this reads closer than either number alone suggests. Everton got into the box far more often (8 shots inside it to 5). Everton's finishing ran hot — 2 from 1 xG, 4 of 12 shots on target (a finishing read inferred from shots on target and goals vs xG — not measured shot placement).

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

Everton
Crystal Palace
49%
Ball Possession
51%
12
Total Shots
6
4
Shots on Goal
2
3
Shots off Goal
3
5
Blocked Shots
1
8
Shots inside box
5
4
Shots outside box
1
1.01
Expected goals (xG)
1.65
4
Corner Kicks
0
2
Offsides
0
309
Total passes
326
258
Passes accurate
275
83%
Passes %
84%
3
Fouls
9
0
Yellow Cards
1
2
Goalkeeper Saves
2
-0.17
Goals prevented
-0.17

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

The market’s read

Everton
42%
market implied · price 2.26 · opened 43%
Draw
28%
market implied · price 3.37 · opened 28%
Crystal Palace
29%
market implied · price 3.24 · opened 29%
MarketConsensus priceImplied chanceMove
Double chance Everton or draw1.3470.5%-1.1 pts
Double chance Crystal Palace or draw1.6457.7%+1.5 pts
Double chance either team1.3271.9%-0.4 pts
Draw no bet — Everton1.5859.0%-1.0 pts
Draw no bet — Crystal Palace2.2741.0%+1.0 pts
Over 1.5 goals1.3072.5%-0.8 pts
Over 2.5 goals1.9648.7%-1.0 pts
Over 3.5 goals3.3228.3%-0.8 pts
Both teams to score1.7354.1%-0.4 pts
Everton over 1.5 team goals2.1843.0%-1.5 pts
Crystal Palace over 1.5 team goals2.7833.7%+0.4 pts
Everton clean sheet3.0031.2%-0.1 pts
Crystal Palace clean sheet3.7525.0%+1.2 pts

Shortest-priced scorelines: 1-1 6.11 · 1-0 7.66 · 2-1 8.50 · 0-1 9.60 · 0-0 10.46

Consensus of bookmaker prices captured 2026-08-22 16:10 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
10 May 26Crystal Palace2-2Everton
05 Oct 25Everton2-1Crystal Palace