FootballEdgeSeason 2026/27Self-updating record
Full time · Championship · Tue 01 Sep 2026, 19:45 UTC

Sheffield Utd 32 Bolton

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What the chances were worth

Sheffield Utd
2.21
expected goals (xG)
Bolton
1.91
expected goals (xG)

The scoreline says 3–2; by chance quality the match ran 2.21–1.91.

The brain read

Little between them on chances created — the xG read 2.2–1.9, shots 13–18 with 5–6 on target. Bolton got into the box far more often (14 shots inside it to 9). On chances created the game was tighter than the 3–2 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

Sheffield Utd
Bolton
53%
Ball Possession
47%
13
Total Shots
18
5
Shots on Goal
6
7
Shots off Goal
8
1
Blocked Shots
4
9
Shots inside box
14
4
Shots outside box
4
2.21
Expected goals (xG)
1.91
5
Corner Kicks
5
3
Offsides
2
443
Total passes
390
347
Passes accurate
302
78%
Passes %
77%
8
Fouls
13
0
Yellow Cards
2
4
Goalkeeper Saves
1
-0.66
Goals prevented
-0.66

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

The market’s read

Sheffield Utd
57%
market implied · price 1.65 · opened 57%
Draw
24%
market implied · price 3.91 · opened 24%
Bolton
19%
market implied · price 5.08 · opened 19%
MarketConsensus priceImplied chanceMove
Double chance Sheffield Utd or draw1.1680.9%+0.1 pts
Double chance Bolton or draw2.2142.5%-0.1 pts
Double chance either team1.2376.6%+0.0 pts
Draw no bet — Sheffield Utd1.2474.6%-0.3 pts
Draw no bet — Bolton3.6425.4%+0.3 pts
Over 1.5 goals1.2376.1%+0.8 pts
Over 2.5 goals1.7653.8%+0.8 pts
Over 3.5 goals2.8333.1%+0.5 pts
Both teams to score1.7453.4%+0.8 pts
Sheffield Utd over 1.5 team goals1.6855.6%+0.6 pts
Bolton over 1.5 team goals3.5226.5%+0.2 pts
Sheffield Utd clean sheet2.3839.1%+0.7 pts
Bolton clean sheet5.6216.6%-1.8 pts

Shortest-priced scorelines: 1-0 7.00 · 1-1 7.05 · 2-1 7.51 · 2-0 7.77 · 0-0 11.35

Consensus of bookmaker prices captured 2026-09-01 18:30 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.