Doncaster Rovers 1-2 Port Vale — Result, Statistics & Match Review — England - 2nd Division, 4 Jan 2025

📅04/01/2025 · 🕒18:00 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 1-0 2nd Score 0-0
MODEL iddaakolik · Our Predictions
Probability per market · Global + League + Team blend
⏱ Odds and predictions are pre-match — updates freeze from ~20 minutes before kick-off.
Match Result
Home
47%
1.76
Draw
26%
3.54
Away
27%
3.83
Under/Over 2.5
Under 2.5
52%
1.8
Over 2.5
48%
1.91
Both Teams to Score
Yes
47%
1.88
No
53%
1.82
Total Goals
0-1 Goal EV+ ✗
29%
2.91
2-3 Goals
40%
1.72
4-5 Goals
22%
3.62
6+ Goals
9%
15.55
Value flag · 0-1 Goal at 2.91 — our 29% vs market 27.2%. Did not land — edges play out over many matches, not one.
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
25%
2.41
1/2
7%
34.5
1/X
6%
15.05
X/1
11%
4.03
X/2
12%
8.5
X/X
15%
4.81
2/1
11%
25.0
2/2
7%
6.79
2/X
6%
15.75
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
47%
Home Win
53%
-5.5pp
26%
Draw
25%
+1.6pp
26%
Away Win
23%
+3.8pp
52%
Under 2.5
52%
+0.6pp
48%
Over 2.5
48%
-0.6pp
47%
BTTS Yes
49%
-1.8pp
53%
BTTS No
51%
+1.8pp
gold — our model green — our served pick grey — EU market (margin removed: each group sums to 100%)
Edge (pp): green = we see more probability than the market · gold = essentially even (±0.5pp) · red = we see less. The Decision above outranks any single row: the engine backs well-supported edges, not merely big ones.
PREVIEW Match Preview Engine
iddaakolik Team Elo · Form · Goals signals
HOME Doncaster Rovers EU Bookmakers 57%
Head to Head
AWAY Port Vale EU Bookmakers 26%
-3% / -8% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations +3% / +5%
1.81/0.72 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 1.00/1.27
+2% / +5% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) -8% / +3%
55% Ball Possession 45%
14 Total Shots 8
6 Shots on Target 4
7 Corners 3
390 · 77% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 234 · 67%
29.3 Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area 18.5
27.0 Crosses 17.1
1.1 Yellow Cards 2.1
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Doncaster Rovers
2W-1D-3L
AWAY Port Vale
0.83 Avg Goals (FT) 1.33
1.26 xG 1.70
50% Ball Possession 50%
12 Total Shots 12
5 Shots on Target 6
5 Corners 5
328 Passes 300
76% Pass Accuracy 73%
24 Box Touches 18
24 Crosses 16
1 Yellow Cards 0
10.12.2024 Doncaster Rovers Doncaster Rovers 0-1 HT 0-0 Port Vale Port Vale İNTK
31.08.2024 Port Vale Port Vale 2-3 HT 1-1 Doncaster Rovers Doncaster Rovers İN2
29.07.2023 Doncaster Rovers Doncaster Rovers 1-0 HT 0-0 Port Vale Port Vale HAZ
08.11.2016 Doncaster Rovers Doncaster Rovers 0-0 HT 0-0 Port Vale Port Vale İNTK
26.01.2016 Doncaster Rovers Doncaster Rovers 1-2 HT 0-1 Port Vale Port Vale İN1
22.08.2015 Port Vale Port Vale 3-0 HT 1-0 Doncaster Rovers Doncaster Rovers İN1
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Doncaster Rovers
1-2
AWAY Port Vale
1.25 xG 0.67
63% Ball Possession 37%
16 Total Shots 5
6 Shots on Target 3
7 Corners 3
336 Passes 165
77% Pass Accuracy 64%
31 Box Touches 21
30 Crosses 13
1 Yellow Cards 1
POST-MATCH Doncaster Rovers vs Port Vale
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Port Vale squeezed past Doncaster Rovers 2-1 away from home. Half-time: 0-1.

Our pre-match lean was Doncaster Rovers at 47%, but a lead that slim is closer to a coin-flip than a call — and it fell the other way.

Over 2.5 goals sat near a coin-flip at 48% and both teams to score was close to even at 47%.

On the day, Doncaster Rovers had 63% of the ball to Port Vale's 37%, shots finished 16-5, expected goals 1.25 to 0.67 — on chances, Doncaster Rovers could feel hard done by.

For context: across their last 6 meetings in our records, Port Vale led the recent series with 3 wins, 1 drawn. Those games averaged 0.83 goals for Doncaster Rovers and 1.33 for Port Vale.

What was the final score of Doncaster Rovers vs Port Vale?

Doncaster Rovers 1-2 Port Vale in the England - 2nd Division on 04/01/2025. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for Doncaster Rovers vs Port Vale?

Before kick-off our model rated a Doncaster Rovers win the most likely single outcome at about 47%, with the full match-result split Doncaster Rovers 47%, draw 26%, Port Vale 26%. The final score 1-2 went against our main leads this time — single matches are noisy by nature; our accuracy is measured across thousands of predictions, not one result.

✗ Match Result (Doncaster Rovers) ✗ Under 2.5 ✗ BTTS No
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