Crystal Palace 3-0 Aston Villa — Result, Statistics & Match Review — England - FA Cup, 26 Apr 2025

📅26/04/2025 · 🕒19:15 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
32%
2.99
Draw
29%
3.28
Away
39%
2.11
Under/Over 2.5
Under Pick
52%
1.9
Over
48%
1.82
Both Teams to Score
Yes
50%
1.68
No
50%
2.06
Total Goals
0-1
28%
3.37
2-3
40%
1.8
4-5
23%
3.4
6+
9%
12.75
Value flag · 0-1 at 3.37 — our 28% vs market 23.9%. Did not land — edges play out over many matches, not one.
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
16%
4.94
1/2
8%
25.5
1/X
6%
13.3
X/1
9%
6.99
X/2
14%
5.1
X/X
18%
4.73
2/1
8%
33.0
2/2
17%
3.03
2/X
4%
12.7
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Our Pick
Under 2.5 — 52%
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.
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
33%
Home Win
30%
+2.8pp
29%
Draw
27%
+1.9pp
39%
Away Win
43%
-4.7pp
52%
Under 2.5
49%
+3.6pp
48%
Over 2.5
51%
-3.6pp
50%
BTTS Yes
56%
-5.1pp
50%
BTTS No
44%
+5.1pp
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 Crystal Palace EU Bookmakers 33%
Head to Head
AWAY Aston Villa EU Bookmakers 48%
+8% / +8% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations +10% / +10%
0.34/0.08 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 1.55/1.11
-75% / +150% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) +3% / +22%
46% Ball Possession 54%
12 Total Shots 13
4 Shots on Target 4
5 Corners 5
279 · 76% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 351 · 79%
19.2 Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area
13.9 Crosses
2.0 Yellow Cards
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Crystal Palace
3W-1D-2L
AWAY Aston Villa
2.33 Avg Goals (FT) 1.33
1.67 xG 1.68
39% Ball Possession 61%
11 Total Shots 12
4 Shots on Target 4
3 Corners 6
270 Passes 460
78% Pass Accuracy 87%
20 Box Touches 33
14 Crosses 15
3 Yellow Cards 3
25.02.2025 Crystal Palace Crystal Palace 4-1 HT 1-0 Aston Villa Aston Villa İNP
23.11.2024 Aston Villa Aston Villa 2-2 HT 1-2 Crystal Palace Crystal Palace İNP
30.10.2024 Aston Villa Aston Villa 1-2 HT 1-1 Crystal Palace Crystal Palace İNLK
19.05.2024 Crystal Palace Crystal Palace 5-0 HT 2-0 Aston Villa Aston Villa İNP
16.09.2023 Aston Villa Aston Villa 3-1 HT 0-0 Crystal Palace Crystal Palace İNP
04.03.2023 Aston Villa Aston Villa 1-0 HT 1-0 Crystal Palace Crystal Palace İNP
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Crystal Palace
3-0
AWAY Aston Villa
1.79 xG 1.01
30% Ball Possession 70%
9 Total Shots 16
4 Shots on Target 5
1 Corners 12
172 Passes 474
73% Pass Accuracy 86%
18 Box Touches 38
10 Crosses 32
3 Yellow Cards 1
POST-MATCH Crystal Palace vs Aston Villa
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Crystal Palace swept aside Aston Villa 3-0. Half-time: 1-0.

Our pre-match split (33% / 29% / 39%) promised a tight game; Crystal Palace found the edge the numbers couldn't.

Over 2.5 goals sat near a coin-flip at 48% and both teams to score was close to even at 50%.

On the day, Crystal Palace had 30% of the ball to Aston Villa's 70%, shots finished 9-16, expected goals 1.79 to 1.01.

For context: across their last 6 meetings in our records, Crystal Palace had the better of it with 3 wins, 1 drawn. Those games averaged 2.33 goals for Crystal Palace and 1.33 for Aston Villa.

What was the final score of Crystal Palace vs Aston Villa?

Crystal Palace 3-0 Aston Villa in the England - FA Cup on 26/04/2025. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for Crystal Palace vs Aston Villa?

Before kick-off our model rated an Aston Villa win the most likely single outcome at about 39%, with the full match-result split Crystal Palace 33%, draw 29%, Aston Villa 39%. The final score 3-0 went against our main leads this time — single matches are noisy by nature; our accuracy is measured across thousands of predictions, not one result.

✗ Match Result (Aston Villa) ✗ Under 2.5
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