Stoke City 2-0 Sheffield Wednesday — Result, Statistics & Match Review — England - Championship, 18 Apr 2025

📅18/04/2025 · 🕒17:00 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
41%
2.12
Draw
30%
3.18
Away
29%
3.02
Under/Over 2.5
Under 2.5 OUR CALL
60%
1.74
Over 2.5
40%
2.0
Both Teams to Score
Yes
46%
1.82
No
54%
1.88
Total Goals
0-1 Goal
31%
2.85
2-3 Goals
41%
1.77
4-5 Goals
19%
3.93
6+ Goals
9%
17.95
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
13%
3.17
1/2
7%
35.0
1/X
7%
13.45
X/1
22%
4.95
X/2
11%
6.64
X/X
12%
4.38
2/1
6%
27.5
2/2
11%
4.98
2/X EV+ ✗
11%
14.05
Value flag · 2/X at 14.05 — our 11% vs market 4.5%. Did not land — edges play out over many matches, not one.
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Our call
Under 2.5 — 60%
Fair price · no betting value
The bookmaker priced every market fairly — no dependable value at these odds, so skipping is the disciplined play.
Our call is our best estimate of the outcome; a value flag is a separate, rarer judgement about the price.
STRENGTH Under 2.5 BTTS No — pattern-based signals at fair odds; informational, not a sized bet.
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
41%
Home Win
43%
-1.7pp
30%
Draw
28%
+2.6pp
28%
Away Win
29%
-0.9pp
60%
Under 2.5
54%
+6.7pp
40%
Over 2.5
46%
-6.7pp
46%
BTTS Yes
51%
-5.3pp
54%
BTTS No
49%
+5.3pp
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 Stoke City EU Bookmakers 47%
Head to Head
AWAY Sheffield Wednesday EU Bookmakers 33%
-10% / +7% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations +0% / +9%
1.27/1.03 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 1.12/1.44
-6% / -7% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) +9% / -16%
52% Ball Possession 48%
12 Total Shots 10
5 Shots on Target 4
5 Corners 4
339 · 77% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 302 · 76%
23.0 Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area 18.4
21.8 Crosses 16.9
2.1 Yellow Cards 2.1
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Stoke City
2W-2D-2L
AWAY Sheffield Wednesday
0.83 Avg Goals (FT) 1.00
1.94 xG 0.87
54% Ball Possession 46%
12 Total Shots 7
4 Shots on Target 3
5 Corners 4
255 Passes 204
68% Pass Accuracy 63%
21 Box Touches 13
21 Crosses 17
2 Yellow Cards 2
21.12.2024 Sheffield Wednesday Sheffield Wednesday 2-0 HT 0-0 Stoke City Stoke City İNCL
13.04.2024 Sheffield Wednesday Sheffield Wednesday 1-1 HT 0-0 Stoke City Stoke City İNCL
09.12.2023 Stoke City Stoke City 0-1 HT 0-0 Sheffield Wednesday Sheffield Wednesday İNCL
16.02.2021 Stoke City Stoke City 1-0 HT 0-0 Sheffield Wednesday Sheffield Wednesday İNCL
28.11.2020 Sheffield Wednesday Sheffield Wednesday 0-0 HT 0-0 Stoke City Stoke City İNCL
26.12.2019 Stoke City Stoke City 3-2 HT 1-0 Sheffield Wednesday Sheffield Wednesday İNCL
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Stoke City
2-0
AWAY Sheffield Wednesday
1.05 xG 1.06
44% Ball Possession 56%
9 Total Shots 9
3 Shots on Target 1
2 Corners 4
192 Passes 274
80% Pass Accuracy 79%
17 Box Touches 12
11 Crosses 22
2 Yellow Cards 2
POST-MATCH Stoke City vs Sheffield Wednesday
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Stoke City got the better of Sheffield Wednesday 2-0. Half-time: 1-0.

As our pre-match numbers suggested, our model had Stoke City as the likeliest winner at 41%, and the 2-0 landed on that lead. We had also flagged under 2.5 goals (60%), and that read landed as well.

On the day, Stoke City had 44% of the ball to Sheffield Wednesday's 56%, shots finished 9-9, expected goals 1.05 to 1.06.

Coming into the game, across their last 6 meetings in our records, honours were even at 2 apiece, 2 drawn. Those games averaged 0.83 goals for Stoke City and 1.00 for Sheffield Wednesday.

What was the final score of Stoke City vs Sheffield Wednesday?

Stoke City 2-0 Sheffield Wednesday in the England - Championship on 18/04/2025. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for Stoke City vs Sheffield Wednesday?

Before kick-off our model rated a Stoke City win the most likely single outcome at about 41%, with the full match-result split Stoke City 41%, draw 30%, Sheffield Wednesday 28%. The final score 2-0 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on Match Result (Stoke City), Under 2.5, BTTS No — a clean sweep of the main markets.

✓ Match Result (Stoke City) ✓ Under 2.5 ✓ BTTS No
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