Everton v Coventry City

Premier League, game week 10 — UK time

Your appraisal — and now the market.

The appraisal

Coventry City is new to this division, so the rank comparison rests on less than a shared season. -0.26 points a game is the venue form gap, in Coventry City's favour: Everton takes 1.30 a game at home over the last two seasons, Coventry City 1.56 away. Everton scores heaviest in the 76-90+ spell and concedes heaviest in 76-90+; Coventry City scores heaviest in 76-90+ and concedes heaviest in 61-75. The shapes mesh: Coventry City's strongest scoring spell is exactly where Everton is softest. Averaging the two sides' own rates: over 2.5 goals in 51% of their games, both teams scoring in 49%, and a two-goal lead for one side or the other in 50%. 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: Coventry City lands the first blow more often (30 of 50 to 20 of 47); when a lead builds towards 2UP it is more often Coventry City's -- two goals clear in 19 of 50, against 9 of 47; a one-goal lead has not been safe in Everton's hands -- ahead without winning in 8 of 47; Everton finds its goals latest of all -- 18 of its 56 after the 75th; Coventry City finds its goals latest of all -- 22 of its 91 after the 75th, and Everton 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: Everton 1.09 goals expected, Coventry City 1.68, from two seasons of scoring rates (23 home matches and 25 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 numbers against the market’s

Match result

Our tissue: Everton 4.08 (25%), the draw 4.14 (24%), Coventry City 1.95 (51%). The market's averages: 1.71, 3.90 and 4.60. The widest gap is on Coventry City: the market offers 4.60 against our 1.95. If our figures are right that is value; nothing proves they are.

Over or under 2.5 goals

Our tissue: over 2.5 1.91 (52%), under 2.5 2.10 (48%). The market's averages: over 2.5 1.76, under 2.5 2.09. Close to our view -- no argument either way.

Both teams to score

Our tissue: yes 1.85 (54%), no 2.17 (46%). The market's averages: yes 1.65, no 2.10. Close to our view -- no argument either way.

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 Everton's own 23 home matches read, one appeared in 12 (52%). In Coventry City's own 25 away matches read, 12 (48%). Averaging the two sides' rates -- never pooling their matches -- that is 50% 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 02:25 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.