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Full time · Championship · Sun 06 Sep 2026, 12:00 UTC

Birmingham 22 Wolves

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What the chances were worth

Birmingham
1.41
expected goals (xG)
Wolves
1.95
expected goals (xG)

The scoreline says 2–2; by chance quality the match ran 1.41–1.95.

The brain read

The xG read 1.4–1.9 in Wolves's favour, but the shot count told the opposite story — 15–9 overall and 6–4 on target went Birmingham'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. Birmingham got into the box far more often (13 shots inside it to 6).

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

Birmingham
Wolves
53%
Ball Possession
47%
15
Total Shots
9
6
Shots on Goal
4
4
Shots off Goal
4
5
Blocked Shots
1
13
Shots inside box
6
3
Shots outside box
3
8
Corner Kicks
4
2
Offsides
2
339
Total passes
314
256
Passes accurate
239
17
Fouls
12
2
Yellow Cards
1
0
Red Cards
0
2
Goalkeeper Saves
6
10
Free Kicks
14

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

The market’s read

Birmingham
31%
market implied · price 3.02 · opened 32%
Draw
29%
market implied · price 3.28 · opened 29%
Wolves
40%
market implied · price 2.33 · opened 39%
MarketConsensus priceImplied chanceMove
Double chance Birmingham or draw1.5460.7%-0.4 pts
Double chance Wolves or draw1.3768.6%+0.5 pts
Double chance either team1.3270.8%-0.2 pts
Draw no bet — Birmingham2.0545.4%-0.2 pts
Draw no bet — Wolves1.7054.6%+0.2 pts
Over 1.5 goals1.2972.0%+2.2 pts
Over 2.5 goals1.9548.4%+3.1 pts
Over 3.5 goals3.3228.0%+2.4 pts
Both teams to score1.7353.4%+1.9 pts
Birmingham over 1.5 team goals2.7833.8%-0.0 pts
Wolves over 1.5 team goals2.3040.9%+2.2 pts
Birmingham clean sheet3.4027.7%-0.6 pts
Wolves clean sheet3.0031.2%-1.4 pts

Shortest-priced scorelines: 1-1 5.96 · 0-1 7.64 · 1-0 8.76 · 0-0 8.94 · 1-2 8.98

Consensus of bookmaker prices captured 2026-09-06 10:30 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.