League Two, game week 5 — UK time
Your appraisal — and now the market.
York City is new to this division, so the rank comparison rests on less than a shared season. -0.36 points a game is the venue form gap, in York City's favour: Crewe Alexandra takes 1.80 a game at home over the last two seasons, York City 2.16 away. Crewe Alexandra scores heaviest in the 76-90+ spell and concedes heaviest in 31-45+; York City scores heaviest in 76-90+ and concedes heaviest in 76-90+. The shapes mesh: Crewe Alexandra's strongest scoring spell is exactly where York City is softest. Averaging the two sides' own rates: over 2.5 goals in 61% of their games, both teams scoring in 57%, and a two-goal lead for one side or the other in 40%. On the record this leans a goals match.
If the pattern holds -- and a pattern is a shape, not a promise: York City lands the first blow more often (33 of 50 to 24 of 50); when a lead builds towards 2UP it is more often York City's -- two goals clear in 24 of 50, against 9 of 50; Crewe Alexandra finds its goals latest of all -- 17 of its 68 after the 75th, and York City concedes most in that same spell; York City finds its goals latest of all -- 38 of its 122 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: Crewe Alexandra 1.11 goals expected, York City 1.78, from two seasons of scoring rates (25 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: York City's figures include last season in the National League, where goals came against different company.
Our tissue: Crewe Alexandra 4.24 (24%), the draw 4.29 (23%), York City 1.88 (53%). The market's averages: 2.87, 3.35 and 2.40. The widest gap is on Crewe Alexandra: the market is shorter (2.87) than our 4.24 -- it rates that outcome more than we do.
Our tissue: over 2.5 1.82 (55%), under 2.5 2.22 (45%). The market's averages: over 2.5 1.82, under 2.5 2.00. Close to our view -- no argument either way.
Our tissue: yes 1.80 (56%), no 2.25 (44%). The market's averages: yes 1.67, no 2.11. Close to our view -- no argument either way.
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 Crewe Alexandra's own 25 home matches read, one appeared in 8 (32%). In York City's own 25 away matches read, 12 (48%). Averaging the two sides' rates -- never pooling their matches -- that is 40% 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 06:10 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.