Forest Green Rovers 2-0 Walsall — Result, Statistics & Match Review — England - 2nd Division, 9 Mar 2024

📅09/03/2024 · 🕒18:00 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 1-1 2nd Score 0-1
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
29%
2.99
Draw
28%
3.28
Away
43%
2.11
Under/Over 2.5
Under 2.5
52%
1.74
Over 2.5
48%
2.0
Both Teams to Score
Yes
54%
1.82
No
46%
1.88
Total Goals
0-1 Goal
25%
2.92
2-3 Goals
42%
1.77
4-5 Goals
22%
4.0
6+ Goals
11%
18.5
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
13%
4.92
1/2
8%
27.5
1/X
11%
14.0
X/1
8%
6.49
X/2
11%
4.6
X/X
11%
4.35
2/1
8%
34.5
2/2
24%
3.04
2/X
6%
13.7
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
29%
Home Win
30%
-0.7pp
28%
Draw
27%
+0.9pp
43%
Away Win
43%
-0.2pp
52%
Under 2.5
54%
-1.5pp
48%
Over 2.5
46%
+1.5pp
54%
BTTS Yes
51%
+2.7pp
46%
BTTS No
49%
-2.7pp
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 Forest Green Rovers EU Bookmakers 33%
Head to Head
AWAY Walsall EU Bookmakers 48%
-11% / -17% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations -7% / -7%
1.08/1.19 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 1.40/1.23
-28% / -1% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) +0% / -9%
50% Ball Possession 50%
12 Total Shots 10
5 Shots on Target 4
5 Corners 4
291 · 70% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 307 · 72%
20.4 Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area 23.1
19.8 Crosses 19.1
2.0 Yellow Cards 2.2
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Forest Green Rovers
2W-2D-2L
AWAY Walsall
1.17 Avg Goals (FT) 0.83
0.98 xG 1.19
58% Ball Possession 42%
12 Total Shots 12
4 Shots on Target 3
6 Corners 4
360 Passes 242
76% Pass Accuracy 69%
23 Box Touches 16
24 Crosses 17
3 Yellow Cards 2
25.11.2023 Walsall Walsall 0-0 HT 0-0 Forest Green Rovers Forest Green Rovers İN2
10.10.2023 Walsall Walsall 1-1 HT 0-0 Forest Green Rovers Forest Green Rovers İNTK
19.02.2022 Forest Green Rovers Forest Green Rovers 0-1 HT 0-1 Walsall Walsall İN2
10.11.2021 Walsall Walsall 0-2 HT 0-1 Forest Green Rovers Forest Green Rovers İNTK
14.08.2021 Walsall Walsall 1-3 HT 0-3 Forest Green Rovers Forest Green Rovers İN2
10.04.2021 Walsall Walsall 2-1 HT 1-0 Forest Green Rovers Forest Green Rovers İN2
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Forest Green Rovers
2-0
AWAY Walsall
1.33 xG 2.96
42% Ball Possession 58%
5 Total Shots 17
3 Shots on Target 4
0 Corners 7
207 Passes 289
68% Pass Accuracy 74%
11 Box Touches 37
6 Crosses 36
3 Yellow Cards 2
POST-MATCH Forest Green Rovers vs Walsall
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Forest Green Rovers saw off Walsall 2-0. The game was level at 0-0 at the break, so the decisive goals came after it.

Our pre-match lean was Walsall at 43%, 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 54%.

On the day, Forest Green Rovers had 42% of the ball to Walsall's 58%, shots finished 5-17, expected goals 1.33 to 2.96 — on chances, Walsall could feel hard done by.

For context: across their last 6 meetings in our records, honours were even at 2 apiece, 2 drawn. Those games averaged 1.17 goals for Forest Green Rovers and 0.83 for Walsall.

What was the final score of Forest Green Rovers vs Walsall?

Forest Green Rovers 2-0 Walsall in the England - 2nd Division on 09/03/2024. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for Forest Green Rovers vs Walsall?

Before kick-off our model rated an Walsall win the most likely single outcome at about 43%, with the full match-result split Forest Green Rovers 29%, draw 28%, Walsall 43%. The final score 2-0 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on Under 2.5 — while Match Result (Walsall), BTTS Yes went the other way.

✗ Match Result (Walsall) ✓ Under 2.5 ✗ BTTS Yes
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