Bolton Wanderers 1-0 Cardiff City — Result, Statistics & Match Review — England - 1st Division, 25 Oct 2025

📅25/10/2025 · 🕒14:30 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 1-1 2nd Score 1-0
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
45%
1.9
Draw
27%
3.54
Away
28%
3.34
Under/Over 2.5
Under 2.5
53%
2.07
Over 2.5
47%
1.68
Both Teams to Score
Yes
51%
1.61
No
49%
2.16
Total Goals
0-1 Goal EV+ ✓
30%
3.8
2-3 Goals
39%
1.8
4-5 Goals
22%
2.97
6+ Goals
9%
9.42
Value flag · 0-1 Goal at 3.8 — our 30% vs market 20.0%. Landed.
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
21%
2.62
1/2
6%
33.0
1/X
7%
12.95
X/1
17%
4.8
X/2
8%
7.68
X/X
12%
5.3
2/1
7%
22.25
2/2
14%
5.41
2/X
8%
13.8
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
45%
Home Win
49%
-3.6pp
27%
Draw
25%
+1.8pp
28%
Away Win
26%
+1.7pp
53%
Under 2.5
44%
+9.0pp
47%
Over 2.5
56%
-9.0pp
51%
BTTS Yes
58%
-6.6pp
49%
BTTS No
42%
+6.6pp
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 Bolton Wanderers EU Bookmakers 53%
Head to Head
AWAY Cardiff City EU Bookmakers 30%
-4% / -20% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations +40% / +43%
1.58/1.00 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 1.77/1.50
+7% / -15% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) -10% / +150%
55% Ball Possession 45%
14 Total Shots 11
5 Shots on Target 4
5 Corners 4
354 · 77% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 259 · 70%
27.0 Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area 26.0
20.7 Crosses 21.0
2.1 Yellow Cards 1.0
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Bolton Wanderers
3W-0D-3L
AWAY Cardiff City
1.83 Avg Goals (FT) 1.17
0.80 xG 1.83
45% Ball Possession 55%
11 Total Shots 17
4 Shots on Target 6
4 Corners 6
210 Passes 292
63% Pass Accuracy 70%
10 Box Touches 30
15 Crosses 20
2 Yellow Cards 2
13.02.2018 Cardiff City Cardiff City 2-0 HT 2-0 Bolton Wanderers Bolton Wanderers İNCL
23.12.2017 Bolton Wanderers Bolton Wanderers 2-0 HT 0-0 Cardiff City Cardiff City İNCL
23.04.2016 Cardiff City Cardiff City 2-1 HT 0-1 Bolton Wanderers Bolton Wanderers İNCL
05.12.2015 Bolton Wanderers Bolton Wanderers 2-3 HT 1-1 Cardiff City Cardiff City İNCL
06.04.2015 Cardiff City Cardiff City 0-3 HT 0-0 Bolton Wanderers Bolton Wanderers İNCL
04.11.2014 Bolton Wanderers Bolton Wanderers 3-0 HT 2-0 Cardiff City Cardiff City İNCL
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Bolton Wanderers
1-0
AWAY Cardiff City
0.88 xG 0.24
38% Ball Possession 62%
17 Total Shots 4
1 Shots on Target 0
7 Corners 3
243 Passes 442
78% Pass Accuracy 84%
24 Box Touches 13
18 Crosses 24
2 Yellow Cards 1
POST-MATCH Bolton Wanderers vs Cardiff City
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Bolton Wanderers nicked a narrow win over Cardiff City 1-0. The game was level at 0-0 at the break, so the decisive goals came after it.

As we said in the preview, our model had Bolton Wanderers as the likeliest winner at 45%, and the 1-0 landed on that lead.

Over 2.5 goals sat near a coin-flip at 47% and both teams to score was close to even at 51%.

On the day, Bolton Wanderers had 38% of the ball to Cardiff City's 62%, shots finished 17-4, expected goals 0.88 to 0.24.

Coming into the game, across their last 6 meetings in our records, honours were even at 3 apiece. Those games averaged 1.83 goals for Bolton Wanderers and 1.17 for Cardiff City.

What was the final score of Bolton Wanderers vs Cardiff City?

Bolton Wanderers 1-0 Cardiff City in the England - 1st Division on 25/10/2025. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for Bolton Wanderers vs Cardiff City?

Before kick-off our model rated a Bolton Wanderers win the most likely single outcome at about 45%, with the full match-result split Bolton Wanderers 45%, draw 27%, Cardiff City 28%. The final score 1-0 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on Match Result (Bolton Wanderers), Under 2.5 — while BTTS Yes went the other way.

✓ Match Result (Bolton Wanderers) ✓ Under 2.5 ✗ BTTS Yes
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