Iran are more likely than not to avoid defeat, but it is close. The model sees around three goals in it.
The grey number is their average over the last six.
Each bar is split by each side's share of the total.
Iran or draw is 70% now. Here is what it would become at half-time:
Each row is the call worked out again for that half-time score. Lineups are not in it — we publish per-player shooting rates, not a squad-strength number, so what a rested front three does to this figure is not something we can honestly put a number on.
How likely each side is to reach these totals before half-time.
At half-time we update each side’s chance of scoring in the second half from what the first half showed.
Bawler's model rates this match: Iran are favoured (43% win probability vs 30% for Palestine, 28% draw). The model uses each side’s expected goals, recent form and the strength of the opposition.
The most likely scoreline from Bawler's model is Palestine 1-1 Iran (13.1% probability). Expected total goals: 2.6.
Bawler estimates each side's expected goals from its results and the quality of its chances, adjusted for the strength of the opposition and for home advantage, then works out the chance of every scoreline to get win, draw and both-teams-to-score probabilities. Team news and lineups are not built into these numbers. For this match that gives Palestine 30%, the draw 28% and Iran 43%. Every prediction is published before kickoff and settled afterwards.
Probably — Bawler's model gives both teams scoring a 53% chance. That is based on Palestine expecting 1.16 goals and Iran 1.45.
Bawler's model expects 2.6 goals in total. It leans slightly towards two goals or fewer: over 2.5 goals is 48%.