Merthyr Town 1-3 Buxton — Result, Statistics & Match Review — England - Conference, 28 Feb 2026

📅28/02/2026 · 🕒18:00 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 2-1 2nd Score 1-2
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
43%
2.12
Draw
21%
3.72
Away
36%
2.69
Under/Over 2.5
Under
41%
2.63
Over Pick
59%
1.44
Both Teams to Score
Yes
58%
1.39
No
42%
2.75
Total Goals
0-1
23%
5.67
2-3
37%
2.0
4-5
27%
2.44
6+
13%
5.28
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
18%
1/2
7%
1/X
5%
X/1
16%
X/2
13%
X/X
11%
2/1
8%
2/2
17%
2/X
5%
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Our Pick
Over 2.5 — 59%
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 Over 2.5 Home Win BTTS Yes — pattern-based signals at fair odds; informational, not a sized bet.
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
43%
Home Win
43%
-0.2pp
21%
Draw
23%
-2.7pp
36%
Away Win
33%
+3.0pp
41%
Under 2.5
34%
+6.6pp
59%
Over 2.5
66%
-6.6pp
58%
BTTS Yes
68%
-9.3pp
42%
BTTS No
32%
+9.3pp
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 Merthyr Town EU Bookmakers 47%
Head to Head
AWAY Buxton EU Bookmakers 37%
+43% / +43% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations -6% / -11%
3.54/0.84 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 1.50/1.32
+132% / +41% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) +8% / +2%
51% Ball Possession 49%
12 Total Shots 14
5 Shots on Target 6
5 Corners 6
336 · 80% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 337 · 80%
Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area
Crosses
1.5 Yellow Cards 2.5
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Merthyr Town
1W-0D-1L
AWAY Buxton
1.00 Avg Goals (FT) 1.50
56% Ball Possession 44%
7 Total Shots 8
3 Shots on Target 3
5 Corners 3
0 Yellow Cards 2
29.11.2025 Buxton Buxton 1-2 HT 0-2 Merthyr Town Merthyr Town İCON
05.11.2022 Buxton Buxton 2-0 HT 1-0 Merthyr Town Merthyr Town FAK
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Merthyr Town
1-3
AWAY Buxton
51% Ball Possession 49%
20 Total Shots 21
6 Shots on Target 10
5 Corners 3
1 Yellow Cards 1
POST-MATCH Merthyr Town vs Buxton
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Buxton saw off Merthyr Town 3-1 away from home. The game was level at 1-1 at the break, so the decisive goals came after it.

Our pre-match lean was Merthyr Town at 43%, but a lead that slim is closer to a coin-flip than a call — and it fell the other way. We had also flagged over 2.5 goals (59%), both teams to score (58%), and both reads landed as well.

On the day, Merthyr Town had 51% of the ball to Buxton's 49%, shots finished 20-21.

For context: across their last 2 meetings in our records, honours were even at 1 apiece. Those games averaged 1.00 goals for Merthyr Town and 1.50 for Buxton.

What was the final score of Merthyr Town vs Buxton?

Merthyr Town 1-3 Buxton in the England - Conference on 28/02/2026. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for Merthyr Town vs Buxton?

Before kick-off our model rated a Merthyr Town win the most likely single outcome at about 43%, with the full match-result split Merthyr Town 43%, draw 21%, Buxton 36%. The final score 1-3 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on Over 2.5, BTTS Yes — while Match Result (Merthyr Town) went the other way.

✗ Match Result (Merthyr Town) ✓ Over 2.5 ✓ BTTS Yes
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