Ipswich Town U21 5-1 Cardiff City U21 — Result, Statistics & Match Review — England - Professional Development League, 7 Jan 2025

📅07/01/2025 · 🕒16:00 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 2-2 2nd Score 1-2
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
41%
1.75
Draw
26%
3.94
Away
33%
3.63
Under/Over 2.5
Under 2.5
35%
Over 2.5
65%
Both Teams to Score
Yes
64%
1.38
No
36%
2.81
Total Goals
0-1 Goal
19%
2-3 Goals
37%
4-5 Goals
30%
6+ Goals
14%
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
22%
1/2
5%
1/X
7%
X/1
12%
X/2
7%
X/X
11%
2/1
8%
2/2
21%
2/X
7%
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
41%
Home Win
53%
-12.1pp
25%
Draw
22%
+3.2pp
33%
Away Win
24%
+8.9pp
64%
BTTS Yes
68%
-4.8pp
36%
BTTS No
32%
+4.8pp
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 Ipswich Town U21 EU Bookmakers 57%
Head to Head
AWAY Cardiff City U21 EU Bookmakers 28%
-28% / -28% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations +36% / +36%
1.53/1.62 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 2.88/2.32
-33% / -8% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) +75% / -17%
53% Ball Possession 47%
16 Total Shots 12
6 Shots on Target 5
6 Corners 5
360 · 82% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 318 · 79%
Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area
Crosses
Yellow Cards
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Ipswich Town U21
2W-1D-0L
AWAY Cardiff City U21
2.33 Avg Goals (FT) 1.00
23.11.2024 Cardiff City U21 Cardiff City U21 0-2 HT 0-1 Ipswich Town U21 Ipswich Town U21 İNPLK
01.10.2024 Cardiff City U21 Cardiff City U21 2-2 HT 2-1 Ipswich Town U21 Ipswich Town U21 INGPDL
05.03.2024 Cardiff City U21 Cardiff City U21 1-3 HT 1-0 Ipswich Town U21 Ipswich Town U21 INGPDL
POST-MATCH Ipswich Town U21 vs Cardiff City U21
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Ipswich Town U21 cruised past Cardiff City U21 5-1. Half-time: 2-1. 6 goals made it one of the day's more open games.

Just as the model leaned, our model had Ipswich Town U21 as the likeliest winner at 41%, and the 5-1 landed on that lead. The goals side of the card held up too — over 2.5 goals (65%), both teams to score (64%) came in.

Coming into the game, across their last 3 meetings in our records, Ipswich Town U21 had the better of it with 2 wins, 1 drawn. Those games averaged 2.33 goals for Ipswich Town U21 and 1.00 for Cardiff City U21.

What was the final score of Ipswich Town U21 vs Cardiff City U21?

Ipswich Town U21 5-1 Cardiff City U21 in the England - Professional Development League on 07/01/2025. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for Ipswich Town U21 vs Cardiff City U21?

Before kick-off our model rated a Ipswich Town U21 win the most likely single outcome at about 41%, with the full match-result split Ipswich Town U21 41%, draw 25%, Cardiff City U21 33%. The final score 5-1 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on Match Result (Ipswich Town U21), Over 2.5, BTTS Yes — a clean sweep of the main markets.

✓ Match Result (Ipswich Town U21) ✓ Over 2.5 ✓ BTTS Yes
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