Sheffield United U21 5-2 Birmingham City U21 — Result, Statistics & Match Review — England - Professional Development League, 4 Mar 2025

📅04/03/2025 · 🕒17:00 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 3-1 2nd Score 4-1
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
69%
1.16
Draw
16%
7.78
Away
15%
10.87
Under/Over 2.5
Under 2.5
26%
Over 2.5
74%
Both Teams to Score
Yes
58%
1.66
No
42%
2.09
Total Goals
0-1 Goal
9%
2-3 Goals
30%
4-5 Goals
36%
6+ Goals
25%
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
43%
1/2
3%
1/X
3%
X/1
19%
X/2
7%
X/X
6%
2/1
8%
2/2
5%
2/X
6%
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
69%
Home Win
82%
-13.3pp
15%
Draw
10%
+5.0pp
15%
Away Win
7%
+8.3pp
58%
BTTS Yes
56%
+2.0pp
42%
BTTS No
44%
-2.0pp
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 Sheffield United U21 EU Bookmakers 87%
Head to Head
AWAY Birmingham City U21 EU Bookmakers 9%
-17% / -17% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations -18% / -18%
4.55/1.61 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 0.00/3.49
+50% / -35% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) -100% / -7%
60% Ball Possession 40%
17 Total Shots 9
7 Shots on Target 4
6 Corners 4
470 · 88% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 293 · 81%
Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area
Crosses
Yellow Cards
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Sheffield United U21
1W-1D-1L
AWAY Birmingham City U21
1.67 Avg Goals (FT) 1.67
15.11.2024 Birmingham City U21 Birmingham City U21 2-2 HT 1-0 Sheffield United U21 Sheffield United U21 INGPDL
05.03.2024 Sheffield United U21 Sheffield United U21 2-0 HT 0-0 Birmingham City U21 Birmingham City U21 INGPDL
27.11.2023 Birmingham City U21 Birmingham City U21 3-1 HT 1-0 Sheffield United U21 Sheffield United U21 INGPDL
POST-MATCH Sheffield United U21 vs Birmingham City U21
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Sheffield United U21 cruised past Birmingham City U21 5-2. Half-time: 3-0. 7 goals made it one of the day's more open games.

Just as the model leaned, our model had Sheffield United U21 as the likeliest winner at 69%, and the 5-2 landed on that lead. The goals side of the card held up too — over 2.5 goals (74%), both teams to score (58%) came in.

For context: across their last 3 meetings in our records, honours were even at 1 apiece, 1 drawn. Those games averaged 1.67 goals for Sheffield United U21 and 1.67 for Birmingham City U21.

What was the final score of Sheffield United U21 vs Birmingham City U21?

Sheffield United U21 5-2 Birmingham City U21 in the England - Professional Development League on 04/03/2025. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for Sheffield United U21 vs Birmingham City U21?

Before kick-off our model rated a Sheffield United U21 win the most likely single outcome at about 69%, with the full match-result split Sheffield United U21 69%, draw 15%, Birmingham City U21 15%. The final score 5-2 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on Match Result (Sheffield United U21), Over 2.5, BTTS Yes — a clean sweep of the main markets.

✓ Match Result (Sheffield United U21) ✓ Over 2.5 ✓ BTTS Yes
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