Pau 2-1 Metz — Result, Statistics & Match Review — France - Ligue 2, 26 Apr 2025

Pau
2-1 HT 0-0
Metz
📅26/04/2025 · 🕒21:00 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 1-1 2nd Score 2-2
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
18%
3.75
Draw
32%
3.8
Away
50%
1.71
Under/Over 2.5
Under
49%
2.29
Over
51%
1.56
Both Teams to Score
Yes Pick
54%
1.6
No
46%
2.19
Total Goals
0-1
27%
4.57
2-3
32%
1.92
4-5
26%
2.81
6+
15%
7.69
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
7%
6.84
1/2
4%
20.25
1/X
14%
15.35
X/1
7%
9.5
X/2
11%
4.48
X/X
12%
6.2
2/1
4%
35.0
2/2
35%
2.17
2/X
6%
14.1
Value flag · 1/X at 15.35 — our 14% vs market 4.0%. Did not land — edges play out over many matches, not one.
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Our Pick
BTTS Yes — 54%
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 BTTS Yes Over 2.5 — pattern-based signals at fair odds; informational, not a sized bet.
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
18%
Home Win
23%
-4.7pp
32%
Draw
23%
+9.0pp
50%
Away Win
54%
-4.4pp
49%
Under 2.5
40%
+9.1pp
51%
Over 2.5
60%
-9.1pp
54%
BTTS Yes
58%
-4.5pp
46%
BTTS No
42%
+4.5pp
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 Pau EU Bookmakers 27%
Head to Head
AWAY Metz EU Bookmakers 58%
+2% / +2% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations +4% / +1%
0.98/1.50 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 1.65/0.96
-3% / +1% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) +10% / -11%
44% Ball Possession 56%
10 Total Shots 14
4 Shots on Target 6
4 Corners 5
272 · 76% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 401 · 83%
17.7 Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area 26.7
20.4 Crosses 20.9
1.9 Yellow Cards 1.4
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Pau
0W-2D-1L
AWAY Metz
0.33 Avg Goals (FT) 0.67
0.89 xG 1.69
45% Ball Possession 55%
11 Total Shots 14
2 Shots on Target 3
4 Corners 3
334 Passes 434
79% Pass Accuracy 84%
17 Box Touches 25
15 Crosses 17
2 Yellow Cards 1
04.01.2025 Metz Metz 0-0 HT 0-0 Pau Pau FR2
08.04.2023 Pau Pau 1-1 HT 0-0 Metz Metz FR2
01.10.2022 Metz Metz 1-0 HT 1-0 Pau Pau FR2
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Pau
2-1
AWAY Metz
4.56 xG 2.00
33% Ball Possession 67%
19 Total Shots 17
5 Shots on Target 5
6 Corners 6
264 Passes 567
83% Pass Accuracy 87%
30 Box Touches 34
17 Crosses 22
1 Yellow Cards 5
POST-MATCH Pau vs Metz
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Pau nicked a narrow win over Metz 2-1. The game was level at 0-0 at the break, so the decisive goals came after it.

Our pre-match lean was Metz at 50%, but a lead that slim is closer to a coin-flip than a call — and it fell the other way.

Over 2.5 goals sat near a coin-flip at 51% and both teams to score was close to even at 54%.

On the day, Pau had 33% of the ball to Metz's 67%, shots finished 19-17, expected goals 4.56 to 2.00 — an xG gap that size says the one-goal margin undersold Pau's control.

For context: across their last 3 meetings in our records, Metz led the recent series with 1 wins, 2 drawn. Those games averaged 0.33 goals for Pau and 0.67 for Metz.

What was the final score of Pau vs Metz?

Pau 2-1 Metz in the France - Ligue 2 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 Pau vs Metz?

Before kick-off our model rated an Metz win the most likely single outcome at about 50%, with the full match-result split Pau 18%, draw 32%, Metz 50%. The final score 2-1 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on Over 2.5, BTTS Yes — while Match Result (Metz) went the other way.

✗ Match Result (Metz) ✓ Over 2.5 ✓ BTTS Yes
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