Port Vale 3-2 Newport County — Result, Statistics & Match Review — England - 2nd Division, 18 Jan 2025

📅18/01/2025 · 🕒18:00 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 1-0 2nd Score 1-1
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
51%
1.53
Draw
26%
3.94
Away
23%
5.11
Under/Over 2.5
Under Pick
54%
1.91
Over
46%
1.8
Both Teams to Score
Yes
46%
1.9
No
54%
1.81
Total Goals
0-1
29%
3.27
2-3
40%
1.74
4-5
21%
3.26
6+
10%
12.15
Value flag · 0-1 at 3.27 — our 29% vs market 23.7%. Did not land — edges play out over many matches, not one.
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
24%
1.92
1/2
7%
34.5
1/X
9%
16.05
X/1
20%
3.92
X/2
7%
11.4
X/X
10%
5.55
2/1
7%
23.0
2/2
9%
9.63
2/X
7%
18.2
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Our Pick
Under 2.5 — 54%
Fair price · no betting value
Every market fairly priced — no value edge at these odds. Our Pick = the most likely outcome, not a value bet.
STRENGTH Home Win Under 2.5 BTTS No — pattern-based signals at fair odds; informational, not a sized bet.
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Selection The Market
51%
Home Win
61%
-10.2pp
26%
Draw
22%
+3.8pp
23%
Away Win
17%
+6.4pp
54%
Under 2.5
48%
+5.6pp
46%
Over 2.5
52%
-5.6pp
46%
BTTS Yes
49%
-2.5pp
54%
BTTS No
51%
+2.5pp
gold — our model green — our served pick grey — the 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 Port Vale The Market 65%
Head to Head
AWAY Newport County The Market 20%
-5% / -5% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations -2% / -10%
1.06/0.91 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 0.79/1.47
-16% / +24% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) -4% / -13%
55% Ball Possession 45%
16 Total Shots 8
6 Shots on Target 3
6 Corners 4
300 · 73% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 188 · 60%
23.8 Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area 13.1
20.0 Crosses 12.9
1.4 Yellow Cards 1.9
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Port Vale
2W-0D-4L
AWAY Newport County
1.33 Avg Goals (FT) 1.33
1.22 xG 1.69
48% Ball Possession 52%
11 Total Shots 15
3 Shots on Target 4
3 Corners 5
247 Passes 268
66% Pass Accuracy 69%
18 Box Touches 24
20 Crosses 18
2 Yellow Cards 2
07.09.2024 Newport County Newport County 1-4 HT 1-2 Port Vale Port Vale İN2
02.05.2022 Port Vale Port Vale 1-2 HT 0-1 Newport County Newport County İN2
11.12.2021 Newport County Newport County 2-1 HT 0-1 Port Vale Port Vale İN2
16.03.2021 Port Vale Port Vale 2-1 HT 1-0 Newport County Newport County İN2
21.11.2020 Newport County Newport County 1-0 HT 0-0 Port Vale Port Vale İN2
07.09.2019 Newport County Newport County 1-0 HT 0-0 Port Vale Port Vale İN2
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Port Vale
3-2
AWAY Newport County
2.64 xG 0.91
50% Ball Possession 50%
20 Total Shots 12
10 Shots on Target 3
9 Corners 6
306 Passes 315
80% Pass Accuracy 78%
45 Box Touches 14
37 Crosses 16
2 Yellow Cards 1
POST-MATCH Port Vale vs Newport County
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Port Vale edged past Newport County 3-2. It was 1-2 at half-time, meaning the result turned around in the second half. 5 goals made it one of the day's more open games.

Just as the model leaned, our model had Port Vale as the likeliest winner at 51%, and the 3-2 landed on that lead.

Over 2.5 goals sat near a coin-flip at 46% and both teams to score was close to even at 46%.

On the day, Port Vale had 50% of the ball to Newport County's 50%, shots finished 20-12, expected goals 2.64 to 0.91 — an xG gap that size says the one-goal margin undersold Port Vale's control.

For context: across their last 6 meetings in our records, Newport County led the recent series with 4 wins. Those games averaged 1.33 goals for Port Vale and 1.33 for Newport County.

What was the final score of Port Vale vs Newport County?

Port Vale 3-2 Newport County in the England - 2nd Division on 18/01/2025. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for Port Vale vs Newport County?

Before kick-off our model rated a Port Vale win the most likely single outcome at about 51%, with the full match-result split Port Vale 51%, draw 26%, Newport County 23%. The final score 3-2 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on Match Result (Port Vale) — while Under 2.5, BTTS No went the other way.

✓ Match Result (Port Vale) ✗ Under 2.5 ✗ BTTS No
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