Salford City v Crawley Town

League Two, game week 11 — UK time

Your appraisal — and now the market.

The appraisal

The table makes Salford City the bigger side: 4th against 22nd of 24 last season. Against the block the other keeps: Salford City takes 1.93 points a game, Crawley Town 0.38 -- the block form is Salford City's. +1.28 points a game is the venue form gap, in Salford City's favour: Salford City takes 2.04 a game at home over the last two seasons, Crawley Town 0.76 away. Salford City scores heaviest in the 76-90+ spell and concedes heaviest in 31-45+; Crawley Town scores heaviest in 61-75 and concedes heaviest in 46-60. Averaging the two sides' own rates: over 2.5 goals in 43% of their games, both teams scoring in 45%, and a two-goal lead for one side or the other in 34%. On the record this leans a tight match.

How it may unfold

If the pattern holds -- and a pattern is a shape, not a promise: Salford City lands the first blow more often (28 of 50 to 17 of 50); a one-goal lead has not been safe in Crawley Town's hands -- ahead without winning in 8 of 50; Salford City finds its goals latest of all -- 20 of its 64 after the 75th.

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: Salford City 1.58 goals expected, Crawley Town 0.74, from two seasons of scoring rates (24 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.

Our numbers against the market’s

Match result

Our tissue: Salford City 1.74 (57%), the draw 3.97 (25%), Crawley Town 5.77 (17%). The market's averages: 1.32, 4.70 and 6.58. The widest gap is on Salford City: the market is shorter (1.32) than our 1.74 -- it rates that outcome more than we do.

Over or under 2.5 goals

Our tissue: over 2.5 2.46 (41%), under 2.5 1.69 (59%). The market's averages: over 2.5 1.40, under 2.5 2.56. The market is shorter than our number on over 2.5.

Both teams to score

Our tissue: yes 2.42 (41%), no 1.70 (59%). The market's averages: yes 1.65, no 2.14. 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 Salford City's own 24 home matches read, one appeared in 6 (25%). In Crawley Town's own 25 away matches read, 11 (44%). Averaging the two sides' rates -- never pooling their matches -- that is 34% 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 03:23 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.