Wexford Youths 1-2 Longford Town — Result, Statistics & Match Review — Ireland - 1st Division, 8 May 2026

📅08/05/2026 · 🕒21:45 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 1-0 2nd Score 2-0
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
53%
1.89
Draw
22%
3.28
Away
25%
3.71
Under/Over 2.5
Under 2.5
56%
1.75
Over 2.5
44%
1.97
Both Teams to Score
Yes
43%
1.85
No
57%
1.85
Total Goals
0-1 Goal EV+ ✗
33%
2.83
2-3 Goals
39%
1.7
4-5 Goals
21%
3.67
6+ Goals
7%
16.1
Value flag · 0-1 Goal at 2.83 — our 33% vs market 27.7%. Did not land — edges play out over many matches, not one.
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
32%
1/2
4%
1/X
6%
X/1
12%
X/2
11%
X/X
8%
2/1
9%
2/2
10%
2/X
8%
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
53%
Home Win
49%
+4.1pp
22%
Draw
27%
-5.1pp
25%
Away Win
24%
+0.8pp
56%
Under 2.5
53%
+3.3pp
44%
Over 2.5
47%
-3.3pp
43%
BTTS Yes
50%
-7.2pp
57%
BTTS No
50%
+7.2pp
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 Wexford Youths EU Bookmakers 53%
Head to Head
AWAY Longford Town EU Bookmakers 27%
-2% / -5% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations -6% / -14%
1.40/0.89 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 0.87/1.58
-16% / +12% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) -20% / -8%
55% Ball Possession 45%
13 Total Shots 9
4 Shots on Target 4
7 Corners 3
303 · 76% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 286 · 75%
Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area
Crosses
0.5 Yellow Cards 2.1
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Wexford Youths
1W-1D-4L
AWAY Longford Town
1.00 Avg Goals (FT) 1.83
58% Ball Possession 42%
6 Total Shots 8
3 Shots on Target 4
6 Corners 4
1 Yellow Cards 2
21.03.2026 Longford Town Longford Town 2-0 HT 1-0 Wexford Youths Wexford Youths İR1
30.08.2025 Longford Town Longford Town 2-2 HT 2-0 Wexford Youths Wexford Youths İR1
20.06.2025 Wexford Youths Wexford Youths 0-1 HT 0-1 Longford Town Longford Town İR1
03.05.2025 Longford Town Longford Town 2-1 Wexford Youths Wexford Youths İR1
08.04.2025 Wexford Youths Wexford Youths 3-1 HT 1-0 Longford Town Longford Town İR1
21.09.2024 Longford Town Longford Town 3-0 HT 1-0 Wexford Youths Wexford Youths İR1
POST-MATCH Wexford Youths vs Longford Town
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Longford Town edged past Wexford Youths 2-1 away from home. Half-time: 0-1.

Our pre-match lean was Wexford Youths at 53%, but a lead that slim is closer to a coin-flip than a call — and it fell the other way. The goals read — under 2.5 goals (56%), no to both teams scoring (57%) — went the other way, though.

For context: across their last 6 meetings in our records, Longford Town led the recent series with 4 wins, 1 drawn. Those games averaged 1.00 goals for Wexford Youths and 1.83 for Longford Town.

What was the final score of Wexford Youths vs Longford Town?

Wexford Youths 1-2 Longford Town in the Ireland - 1st Division on 08/05/2026. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for Wexford Youths vs Longford Town?

Before kick-off our model rated a Wexford Youths win the most likely single outcome at about 53%, with the full match-result split Wexford Youths 53%, draw 22%, Longford Town 25%. 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 (Wexford Youths) ✗ Under 2.5 ✗ BTTS No
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