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

Wrexham 11 Watford

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What the chances were worth

Wrexham
0.85
expected goals (xG)
Watford
0.33
expected goals (xG)

The scoreline says 1–1; by chance quality the match ran 0.85–0.33.

What the model expected

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

Wrexham
38%
Draw
30%
Watford
32%

Before kick-off the model favoured Wrexham to win (38%); it finished with the draw. A miss — it gave the actual result 30% 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 0.8–0.3 in Wrexham's favour, but the shot count told the opposite story — 6–5 overall and 2–4 on target went Watford'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.

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

Wrexham
Watford
54%
Ball Possession
46%
6
Total Shots
5
2
Shots on Goal
4
3
Shots off Goal
1
1
Blocked Shots
0
5
Shots inside box
4
1
Shots outside box
1
0.85
Expected goals (xG)
0.33
3
Corner Kicks
1
1
Offsides
0
228
Total passes
198
185
Passes accurate
148
81%
Passes %
75%
8
Fouls
6
1
Yellow Cards
0
3
Goalkeeper Saves
1
-0.37
Goals prevented
-0.37

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

The market’s read

Wrexham
49%
market implied · price 1.93 · opened 49%
Draw
27%
market implied · price 3.54 · opened 27%
Watford
24%
market implied · price 3.85 · opened 25%
MarketConsensus priceImplied chanceMove
Double chance Wrexham or draw1.2475.6%+0.2 pts
Double chance Watford or draw1.8450.7%+0.0 pts
Double chance either team1.2773.7%-0.2 pts
Draw no bet — Wrexham1.3966.2%+0.2 pts
Draw no bet — Watford2.7233.8%-0.2 pts
Over 1.5 goals1.2674.4%+0.6 pts
Over 2.5 goals1.8651.0%+0.5 pts
Over 3.5 goals3.1030.2%+0.3 pts
Both teams to score1.7154.4%+0.1 pts
Wrexham over 1.5 team goals1.9149.0%+0.3 pts
Watford over 1.5 team goals3.0830.3%+0.1 pts
Wrexham clean sheet2.6235.5%+0.3 pts
Watford clean sheet4.5020.8%-0.3 pts

Shortest-priced scorelines: 1-1 6.41 · 1-0 7.21 · 2-1 7.95 · 2-0 9.05 · 0-0 10.51

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
17 Mar 26Watford3-1Wrexham
13 Dec 25Wrexham2-2Watford