Real Madrid 1-2 Arsenal — Result, Statistics & Match Review — Champions League, 16 Apr 2025

📅16/04/2025 · 🕒22:00 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
45%
1.76
Draw
25%
3.72
Away
30%
3.71
Under/Over 2.5
Under
42%
2.21
Over Pick
58%
1.6
Both Teams to Score
Yes
57%
1.6
No
43%
2.19
Total Goals
0-1
20%
4.41
2-3
39%
1.9
4-5
26%
2.86
6+
15%
8.1
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
26%
2.31
1/2
7%
35.0
1/X
7%
13.55
X/1
14%
4.6
X/2
10%
8.93
X/X
8%
5.89
2/1
5%
20.85
2/2
13%
6.35
2/X
10%
14.65
Value flag · 2/X at 14.65 — our 10% vs market 4.3%. Did not land — edges play out over many matches, not one.
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Our Pick
Over 2.5 — 58%
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 Over 2.5 — pattern-based signals at fair odds; informational, not a sized bet.
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
45%
Home Win
53%
-7.5pp
25%
Draw
24%
+1.4pp
30%
Away Win
24%
+6.0pp
42%
Under 2.5
41%
+0.4pp
58%
Over 2.5
59%
-0.4pp
57%
BTTS Yes
58%
-1.9pp
43%
BTTS No
42%
+1.9pp
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 Real Madrid EU Bookmakers 57%
Head to Head
AWAY Arsenal EU Bookmakers 27%
+15% / +16% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations -15% / -17%
1.80/0.90 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 1.80/1.16
+27% / -10% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) -87% / +38%
54% Ball Possession 46%
16 Total Shots 10
7 Shots on Target 4
6 Corners 4
468 · 86% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 368 · 82%
28.6 Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area 42.0
15.3 Crosses 46.0
1.5 Yellow Cards 2.0
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Real Madrid
0W-2D-2L
AWAY Arsenal
0.50 Avg Goals (FT) 1.50
1.29 xG 2.60
48% Ball Possession 52%
14 Total Shots 16
4 Shots on Target 10
6 Corners 4
400 Passes 447
88% Pass Accuracy 90%
28 Box Touches 30
18 Crosses 14
2 Yellow Cards 1
08.04.2025 Arsenal Arsenal 3-0 HT 0-0 Real Madrid Real Madrid ŞMP
24.07.2019 Real Madrid Real Madrid 2-2 HT 0-2 Arsenal Arsenal HAZ
08.03.2006 Arsenal Arsenal 0-0 HT 0-0 Real Madrid Real Madrid ŞMP
21.02.2006 Real Madrid Real Madrid 0-1 HT 0-0 Arsenal Arsenal ŞMP
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Real Madrid
1-2
AWAY Arsenal
1.41 xG 2.05
66% Ball Possession 34%
18 Total Shots 12
3 Shots on Target 6
10 Corners 4
371 Passes 179
86% Pass Accuracy 77%
34 Box Touches 23
43 Crosses 8
3 Yellow Cards 2
POST-MATCH Real Madrid vs Arsenal
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Arsenal edged past Real Madrid 2-1 away from home. The game was level at 0-0 at the break, so the decisive goals came after it.

Our pre-match lean was Real Madrid at 45%, but a lead that slim is closer to a coin-flip than a call — and it fell the other way. The goals side of the card held up too — over 2.5 goals (58%), both teams to score (57%) came in.

On the day, Real Madrid had 66% of the ball to Arsenal's 34%, shots finished 18-12, expected goals 1.41 to 2.05.

Coming into the game, across their last 4 meetings in our records, Arsenal led the recent series with 2 wins, 2 drawn. Those games averaged 0.50 goals for Real Madrid and 1.50 for Arsenal.

What was the final score of Real Madrid vs Arsenal?

Real Madrid 1-2 Arsenal in the Champions League on 16/04/2025. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for Real Madrid vs Arsenal?

Before kick-off our model rated a Real Madrid win the most likely single outcome at about 45%, with the full match-result split Real Madrid 45%, draw 25%, Arsenal 30%. The final score 1-2 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on Over 2.5, BTTS Yes — while Match Result (Real Madrid) went the other way.

✗ Match Result (Real Madrid) ✓ Over 2.5 ✓ BTTS Yes
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