Southampton 3-2 Watford — Result, Statistics & Match Review — England - Championship, 13 Apr 2024

📅13/04/2024 · 🕒17:00 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 Pick
56%
1.43
Draw
24%
4.49
Away
20%
5.27
Under/Over 2.5
Under
47%
2.51
Over
53%
1.48
Both Teams to Score
Yes
50%
1.66
No
50%
2.09
Total Goals
0-1
24%
5.57
2-3
39%
2.02
4-5
26%
2.64
6+
11%
6.3
Value flag · 0-1 at 5.57 — our 24% vs market 13.5%. Did not land — edges play out over many matches, not one.
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
25%
1.7
1/2
5%
34.5
1/X
8%
17.65
X/1
17%
3.79
X/2
6%
14.05
X/X
11%
7.43
2/1
13%
19.75
2/2
9%
9.82
2/X
6%
17.85
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Our Pick
Southampton win — 56%
Fair price · no betting value
The bookmaker priced every market fairly — no dependable value at these odds, so skipping is the disciplined play.
Our Pick is our best estimate of the outcome; a value flag is a separate, rarer judgement about the price.
STRENGTH Home Win — pattern-based signals at fair odds; informational, not a sized bet.
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
55%
Home Win
65%
-9.9pp
24%
Draw
19%
+5.3pp
20%
Away Win
16%
+4.7pp
47%
Under 2.5
36%
+11.3pp
53%
Over 2.5
64%
-11.3pp
50%
BTTS Yes
56%
-6.0pp
50%
BTTS No
44%
+6.0pp
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 Southampton EU Bookmakers 70%
Head to Head
AWAY Watford EU Bookmakers 19%
+0% / -2% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations +2% / +6%
1.93/0.88 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 0.83/1.65
+26% / +13% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) -14% / +3%
62% Ball Possession 38%
16 Total Shots 9
5 Shots on Target 3
7 Corners 4
476 · 84% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 260 · 74%
38.3 Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area 15.4
22.7 Crosses 13.0
2.2 Yellow Cards 2.7
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Southampton
3W-2D-1L
AWAY Watford
1.67 Avg Goals (FT) 0.83
1.21 xG 0.95
62% Ball Possession 38%
13 Total Shots 10
6 Shots on Target 3
6 Corners 5
441 Passes 235
81% Pass Accuracy 72%
24 Box Touches 18
20 Crosses 22
2 Yellow Cards 2
06.02.2024 Southampton Southampton 3-0 HT 0-0 Watford Watford FAK
28.01.2024 Watford Watford 1-1 HT 1-0 Southampton Southampton FAK
09.12.2023 Watford Watford 1-1 HT 0-0 Southampton Southampton İNCL
13.03.2022 Southampton Southampton 1-2 HT 1-2 Watford Watford İNP
30.10.2021 Watford Watford 0-1 HT 0-1 Southampton Southampton İNP
28.06.2020 Watford Watford 1-3 HT 0-1 Southampton Southampton İNP
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Southampton
3-2
AWAY Watford
1.85 xG 0.84
62% Ball Possession 38%
13 Total Shots 12
4 Shots on Target 6
6 Corners 3
523 Passes 288
87% Pass Accuracy 78%
20 Box Touches 24
21 Crosses 14
1 Yellow Cards 3
POST-MATCH Southampton vs Watford
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Southampton squeezed past Watford 3-2. Half-time: 2-1. 5 goals made it one of the day's more open games.

As our pre-match numbers suggested, our model had Southampton as the likeliest winner at 55%, and the 3-2 landed on that lead.

Over 2.5 goals sat near a coin-flip at 53% and both teams to score was close to even at 50%.

On the day, Southampton had 62% of the ball to Watford's 38%, shots finished 13-12, expected goals 1.85 to 0.84.

Coming into the game, across their last 6 meetings in our records, Southampton had the better of it with 3 wins, 2 drawn. Those games averaged 1.67 goals for Southampton and 0.83 for Watford.

What was the final score of Southampton vs Watford?

Southampton 3-2 Watford in the England - Championship on 13/04/2024. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for Southampton vs Watford?

Before kick-off our model rated a Southampton win the most likely single outcome at about 55%, with the full match-result split Southampton 55%, draw 24%, Watford 20%. The final score 3-2 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on Match Result (Southampton), Over 2.5 — a clean sweep of the main markets.

✓ Match Result (Southampton) ✓ Over 2.5
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