Burnley v Wolverhampton Wanderers

Championship, game week 11 — UK time

Your appraisal — and now the market.

The appraisal

Burnley is new to this division, so the rank comparison rests on less than a shared season. +0.17 points a game is the venue form gap, in Burnley's favour: Burnley takes 0.71 a game at home over the last two seasons, Wolverhampton Wanderers 0.54 away. Burnley scores heaviest in the 76-90+ spell and concedes heaviest in 76-90+; Wolverhampton Wanderers scores heaviest in 76-90+ and concedes heaviest in 31-45+. The shapes mesh: Wolverhampton Wanderers's strongest scoring spell is exactly where Burnley is softest. Averaging the two sides' own rates: over 2.5 goals in 52% of their games, both teams scoring in 57%, and a two-goal lead for one side or the other in 44%. On the record there is no strong lean either way on goals.

How it may unfold

If the pattern holds -- and a pattern is a shape, not a promise: the first blow is even money on the record (14 of 48 and 13 of 47); a one-goal lead has not been safe in Burnley's hands -- ahead without winning in 11 of 48; Burnley finds its goals latest of all -- 13 of its 53 after the 75th; Wolverhampton Wanderers finds its goals latest of all -- 11 of its 43 after the 75th, and Burnley concedes most in that same spell; the last quarter-hour is where this fixture's money is likeliest to move.

That read is built from the four steps, with no price in your ear -- the steps hold the evidence if you want the post-mortem. Now the market gets its say. Where it agrees with you it got there first; where it does not, your read and the crowd's disagree -- that is the conversation this tool exists to set up, and no measured edge backs either side of it.

The tissue is a plain goals model: Burnley 1.34 goals expected, Wolverhampton Wanderers 0.95, from two seasons of scoring rates (24 home matches and 24 away in the bank), shrunk toward the division average. It is calibrated against nothing and claims no edge -- it exists to make your view concrete before the market speaks. Note: Burnley's figures include last season in the Premier League, where goals came against different company; Wolverhampton Wanderers's figures include last season in the Premier League, where goals came against different company.

Our numbers against the market’s

Match result

Our tissue: Burnley 2.19 (46%), the draw 3.60 (28%), Wolverhampton Wanderers 3.77 (27%). The market's averages: 2.86, 3.48 and 2.30. The widest gap is on Wolverhampton Wanderers: the market is shorter (2.30) than our 3.77 -- it rates that outcome more than we do.

Over or under 2.5 goals

Our tissue: over 2.5 2.49 (40%), under 2.5 1.67 (60%). The market's averages: over 2.5 1.79, under 2.5 1.95. The market is shorter than our number on over 2.5.

Both teams to score

Our tissue: yes 2.21 (45%), no 1.83 (55%). The market's averages: yes 1.65, no 2.15. The market is shorter than our number on yes.

The 2UP fact

For the 2UP offer the fact that matters is a two-goal lead for one team or the other at ANY point, not the final margin. In Burnley's own 24 home matches read, one appeared in 10 (42%). In Wolverhampton Wanderers's own 24 away matches read, 11 (46%). Averaging the two sides' rates -- never pooling their matches -- that is 44% of games. No tissue is offered for this -- the played-match rates above are the honest read.

The market figures are the AVERAGE pre-match odds our feed records across books, not a best price -- a shaded average, so small gaps mean nothing.

Built 19:31 from matches completed before kick-off. The tissue is a model, not a measurement; the market figures are recorded averages, not offers. Nothing here is a tip or a selection.