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> MATCH.PREDICT()·World: World Cup·Tuesday 16 Jun, 01:00 UTC

Iran vs New Zealand

Bawler runs a Poisson model on rolling xG, normalised across leagues, adjusted for venue and injuries. This page shows the full chain — every number you can see is one we used.

Why the model calls it this way

Over 2.5 Goals sits at 73% probability because Iran's 0.79 xG advantage and 1.76 expected goals output creates a high-volume attacking blueprint that New Zealand's 0.97 xG cannot match defensively.

Win probability
52.6% home28.9% draw18.5% away
xG chain — base → adjustments → final λ
IranstepNew Zealand
1.63Base xG · rolling 26-match1.01
× 1.08Home advantage · Home× 0.96
no injury adjustment — full squads available per FotMob
1.76Final λ — what the Poisson uses0.97
Scoreline distribution · P(score) %bivariate Poisson
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home windrawaway win
BANKER
Over 2.5 Goals
Model 72.5% · @ 1.38
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X2
Model 46.7% · @ 2.14
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Over 3.5 Goals
Model 24.2% · @ 4.14
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> STAR_PICKS · player props

2 picks
Anytime ScorerPro
Mehdi Taremi
Iran · Olympiacos
44%@ 2.27x fair
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Chris Wood
New Zealand · Nottingham Forest
40%@ 2.50x fair
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Probabilities from a per-player calibrated model on club xG / form, scaled to international minutes. Updated daily.

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