How much each player is expected to threaten the goal if he starts — lineups are confirmed about an hour before kickoff.
Based on counted shooting from the 2025/26 season in this competition.
These are forecasts, not tips. A player’s rate is weighted toward the league average when it rests on fewer minutes, so a small sample never reads as a certainty.
Bawler's model rates this match: AC Milan are favoured (40% win probability vs 32% for Lazio, 28% draw). The model uses rolling xG, recent form, and lineup data.
The most likely scoreline from Bawler's model is Lazio 1-1 AC Milan (13.2% probability). Expected total goals: 2.62.
Bawler builds each side's expected goals from a rolling 26-match window, adjusts for home advantage and for injuries or absences in the confirmed squads, then runs the resulting scoreline distribution to get win, draw and both-teams-to-score probabilities. For this match that gives Lazio 32%, the draw 28% and AC Milan 40%. Every prediction is published before kickoff and settled afterwards.
BTTS: Yes (53% probability) — both attacks should find the net. Based on home expected goals 1.23 and away expected goals 1.39.
Bawler's model gives a combined expected-goals total of 2.62. The lean is Over 2.5 (a goal-fest is on the cards).