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Full time · La Liga · Sun 23 Aug 2026, 16:00 UTC

Atletico Madrid 22 Villarreal

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What the chances were worth

Atletico Madrid
0.65
expected goals (xG)
Villarreal
3.14
expected goals (xG)

The scoreline says 2–2; by chance quality the match ran 0.65–3.14.

What the model expected

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

Atletico Madrid
46%
Draw
28%
Villarreal
27%

Before kick-off the model favoured Atletico Madrid to win (46%); it finished with the draw. A miss — it gave the actual result 28% 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 0.7–3.1 in Villarreal's favour, but the shot count told the opposite story — 18–11 overall and 4–5 on target went Atletico Madrid'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. Atletico Madrid's finishing ran hot — 2 from 0.7 xG, 4 of 18 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

Atletico Madrid
Villarreal
52%
Ball Possession
48%
18
Total Shots
11
4
Shots on Goal
5
5
Shots off Goal
3
9
Blocked Shots
3
6
Shots inside box
8
12
Shots outside box
3
0.65
Expected goals (xG)
3.14
5
Corner Kicks
3
2
Offsides
1
444
Total passes
433
399
Passes accurate
382
90%
Passes %
88%
10
Fouls
10
2
Yellow Cards
1
1
Red Cards
0
3
Goalkeeper Saves
2
-0.13
Goals prevented
-0.13

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

The market’s read

Atletico Madrid
53%
market implied · price 1.78 · opened 50%
Draw
25%
market implied · price 3.84 · opened 26%
Villarreal
22%
market implied · price 4.39 · opened 24%
MarketConsensus priceImplied chanceMove
Double chance Atletico Madrid or draw1.2277.7%+1.2 pts
Double chance Villarreal or draw2.0346.7%-2.6 pts
Double chance either team1.2575.6%+1.4 pts
Draw no bet — Atletico Madrid1.3270.3%+3.3 pts
Draw no bet — Villarreal3.1429.7%-3.3 pts
Over 1.5 goals1.2177.7%+3.5 pts
Over 2.5 goals1.6856.6%+5.5 pts
Over 3.5 goals2.6735.2%+4.8 pts
Both teams to score1.6357.4%+3.5 pts
Atletico Madrid over 1.5 team goals1.7055.1%+5.3 pts
Villarreal over 1.5 team goals2.9731.5%+1.6 pts
Atletico Madrid clean sheet2.7533.7%-1.4 pts
Villarreal clean sheet5.5017.2%-3.9 pts

Shortest-priced scorelines: 1-1 6.98 · 2-1 7.78 · 1-0 8.10 · 2-0 9.26 · 2-2 12.52

Consensus of bookmaker prices captured 2026-08-23 17:10 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
24 May 26Villarreal5-1Atletico Madrid
13 Sep 25Atletico Madrid2-0Villarreal