Premier League, game week 8 — UK time
Your appraisal — and now the market.
Coventry City is new to this division, so the rank comparison rests on less than a shared season. +1.43 points a game is the venue form gap, in Coventry City's favour: Coventry City takes 2.25 a game at home over the last two seasons, Fulham 0.82 away. Coventry City scores heaviest in the 76-90+ spell and concedes heaviest in 61-75; Fulham scores heaviest in 76-90+ and concedes heaviest in 76-90+. The shapes mesh: Coventry City's strongest scoring spell is exactly where Fulham is softest. Averaging the two sides' own rates: over 2.5 goals in 55% of their games, both teams scoring in 54%, and a two-goal lead for one side or the other in 54%. On the record this leans a goals match.
If the pattern holds -- and a pattern is a shape, not a promise: Coventry City lands the first blow more often (30 of 50 to 20 of 45); when a lead builds towards 2UP it is more often Coventry City's -- two goals clear in 18 of 50, against 8 of 45; a one-goal lead has not been safe in Fulham's hands -- ahead without winning in 7 of 45; Coventry City finds its goals latest of all -- 23 of its 91 after the 75th, and Fulham concedes most in that same spell; Fulham finds its goals latest of all -- 14 of its 54 after the 75th; 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: Coventry City 1.92 goals expected, Fulham 0.80, from two seasons of scoring rates (24 home matches and 22 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: Coventry City's figures include last season in the Championship, where goals came against different company.
Our tissue: Coventry City 1.56 (64%), the draw 4.70 (21%), Fulham 6.75 (15%). The market's averages: 3.00, 3.50 and 2.28. The widest gap is on Coventry City: the market offers 3.00 against our 1.56. If our figures are right that is value; nothing proves they are.
Our tissue: over 2.5 1.95 (51%), under 2.5 2.05 (49%). The market's averages: over 2.5 1.71, under 2.5 2.12. Close to our view -- no argument either way.
Our tissue: yes 2.13 (47%), no 1.88 (53%). The market's averages: yes 1.62, no 2.30. The market is shorter than our number on yes.
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 Coventry City's own 24 home matches read, one appeared in 14 (58%). In Fulham's own 22 away matches read, 11 (50%). Averaging the two sides' rates -- never pooling their matches -- that is 54% 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 11:08 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.