Preston North End 0-1 Wigan Athletic — Result, Statistics & Match Review — England - FA Cup, 9 Jan 2026

📅09/01/2026 · 🕒22:30 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 1-1 2nd Score 2-2
MODEL iddaakolik · Our Predictions
Authentic Intelligence™ · Probability per market
⏱ Odds and predictions are pre-match — updates freeze from ~20 minutes before kick-off.
Match Result
Home
45%
1.89
Draw
28%
3.28
Away
27%
3.83
Under/Over 2.5
Under
51%
1.62
Over
49%
2.1
Both Teams to Score
Yes Pick
53%
2.0
No
47%
1.72
Total Goals
0-1
28%
2.48
2-3
38%
1.74
4-5
25%
4.4
6+
9%
23.55
Value flag · 4-5 at 4.4 — our 25% vs market 16.7%. Did not land — edges play out over many matches, not one.
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
23%
2.62
1/2
6%
35.0
1/X
10%
14.6
X/1
13%
4.28
X/2
11%
8.15
X/X
9%
4.2
2/1
9%
28.5
2/2
10%
6.97
2/X
9%
15.95
STRENGTH — green bars inside a box show the pattern support behind that selection, from Good · Strong · Very strong to Great — the deeper the historical record, the fuller the bar; informational, not a sized bet.
EV — the best model-vs-price gap in that group: the market pays more than our probability implies. After full time the tag settles to / . Informational, not a validated tip — edges play out over many matches, not one.
Our Pick = the most likely outcome, not a value bet.
PREVIEW Match Preview Engine
iddaakolik Team Elo · Form · Goals signals
HOME Preston North End The Market 53%
Head to Head
AWAY Wigan Athletic The Market 26%
Great Season vs Marketall history · vs bookmaker expectation Strong
Great Recent Form vs Marketlatest matches · vs bookmaker expectation Strong
1.02 Expected Goals Scoredper match · higher is better 0.56
0.86 Expected Goals Concededper match · lower is better 1.38
Weak Attackvs comparable teams Average
Great Defensevs comparable teams Great
56% Ball Possession 44%
13 Total Shots 11
5 Shots on Target 4
6 Corners 4
313 · 73% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 239 · 70%
21.0 Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area
23.0 Crosses 27.0
1.2 Yellow Cards 0.7
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Preston North End
4W-1D-1L
AWAY Wigan Athletic
1.83 Avg Goals (FT) 0.67
1.38 xG 1.30
49% Ball Possession 50%
13 Total Shots 14
3 Shots on Target 4
6 Corners 6
259 Passes 258
71% Pass Accuracy 72%
21 Box Touches 22
16 Crosses 25
2 Yellow Cards 2
25.02.2023 Preston North End Preston North End 2-1 HT 0-1 Wigan Athletic Wigan Athletic İNCL
30.07.2022 Wigan Athletic Wigan Athletic 0-0 HT 0-0 Preston North End Preston North End İNCL
08.02.2020 Wigan Athletic Wigan Athletic 1-2 HT 0-1 Preston North End Preston North End İNCL
10.08.2019 Preston North End Preston North End 3-0 HT 2-0 Wigan Athletic Wigan Athletic İNCL
22.04.2019 Wigan Athletic Wigan Athletic 2-0 HT 1-0 Preston North End Preston North End İNCL
06.10.2018 Preston North End Preston North End 4-0 HT 1-0 Wigan Athletic Wigan Athletic İNCL
REVIEW Preston North End vs Wigan Athletic
IDDAAKOLIK POST-MATCH REVIEW

Wigan Athletic edged past Preston North End 1-0 on their travels. The game was level at 0-0 at the break, so the decisive goals came after it.

A gentle 45% lean on Preston North End didn't survive contact with the match; margins like that flip all the time. Small consolation: at 1.89 (roughly 53%) the price was further off than we were.

No strong lean on goals — the model had over 2.5 at 49% and both teams to score at 53%, coin-flips both. The market went further still — the BTTS-no price closed at 1.72, about 58%.

For context: across their last 6 meetings in our records, Preston North End had the better of it with 4 wins, 1 drawn. Those games averaged 1.83 goals for Preston North End and 0.67 for Wigan Athletic.

Preston North End vs Wigan Athletic Result & Final Score

Preston North End 0-1 Wigan Athletic in the England - FA Cup on 09/01/2026. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

Preston North End vs Wigan Athletic Prediction vs Result

Before kick-off our model rated a Preston North End win the most likely single outcome at about 45%, with the full match-result split Preston North End 45%, draw 28%, Wigan Athletic 27%. The final score 0-1 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on Under 2.5 — while Match Result (Preston North End), BTTS Yes went the other way.

✗ Match Result (Preston North End) ✓ Under 2.5 ✗ BTTS Yes
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