Colchester 1-2 Grimsby Town — Result, Statistics & Match Review — England - 2nd Division, 28 Mar 2025

📅28/03/2025 · 🕒22:45 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 0-0 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
41%
2.18
Draw
32%
2.94
Away
27%
3.25
Under/Over 2.5
Under 2.5
61%
1.51
Over 2.5
39%
2.43
Both Teams to Score
Yes
38%
2.09
No
62%
1.66
Total Goals
0-1 Goal
38%
2.16
2-3 Goals
36%
1.76
4-5 Goals
18%
5.24
6+ Goals
8%
34.0
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
19%
3.28
1/2
5%
35.0
1/X
4%
14.2
X/1
16%
4.73
X/2
9%
6.72
X/X
22%
3.63
2/1
6%
34.0
2/2
13%
5.61
2/X
6%
15.0
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Our call
BTTS No — 62%
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 — pattern-based signals at fair odds; informational, not a sized bet.
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
41%
Home Win
42%
-1.4pp
32%
Draw
30%
+1.9pp
27%
Away Win
27%
-0.5pp
61%
Under 2.5
62%
-1.6pp
39%
Over 2.5
38%
+1.6pp
38%
BTTS Yes
44%
-5.5pp
62%
BTTS No
56%
+5.5pp
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 Colchester EU Bookmakers 46%
Head to Head
AWAY Grimsby Town EU Bookmakers 31%
+1% / +10% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations +4% / +14%
1.31/1.02 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 1.07/1.42
+3% / +9% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) +6% / +0%
50% Ball Possession 50%
12 Total Shots 10
4 Shots on Target 3
5 Corners 4
261 · 70% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 273 · 69%
23.3 Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area 21.7
18.1 Crosses 17.8
2.1 Yellow Cards 2.1
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Colchester
4W-1D-1L
AWAY Grimsby Town
1.17 Avg Goals (FT) 0.50
0.93 xG 1.01
44% Ball Possession 56%
9 Total Shots 11
3 Shots on Target 3
4 Corners 4
188 Passes 280
59% Pass Accuracy 68%
17 Box Touches 24
15 Crosses 20
2 Yellow Cards 1
23.11.2024 Grimsby Town Grimsby Town 0-1 HT 0-0 Colchester Colchester İN2
16.04.2024 Colchester Colchester 2-0 HT 1-0 Grimsby Town Grimsby Town İN2
24.10.2023 Grimsby Town Grimsby Town 2-3 HT 1-2 Colchester Colchester İN2
11.02.2023 Grimsby Town Grimsby Town 0-1 HT 0-1 Colchester Colchester İN2
17.09.2022 Colchester Colchester 0-1 HT 0-0 Grimsby Town Grimsby Town İN2
13.03.2021 Grimsby Town Grimsby Town 0-0 HT 0-0 Colchester Colchester İN2
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Colchester
1-2
AWAY Grimsby Town
0.24 xG 1.42
59% Ball Possession 41%
7 Total Shots 16
2 Shots on Target 6
4 Corners 3
280 Passes 167
72% Pass Accuracy 62%
13 Box Touches 27
13 Crosses 12
2 Yellow Cards 2
POST-MATCH Colchester vs Grimsby Town
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Grimsby Town squeezed past Colchester 2-1 away from home. The game was level at 0-0 at the break, so the decisive goals came after it.

Our pre-match lean was Colchester at 41%, but a lead that slim is closer to a coin-flip than a call — and it fell the other way. The goals read — under 2.5 goals (61%), no to both teams scoring (62%) — went the other way, though.

On the day, Colchester had 59% of the ball to Grimsby Town's 41%, shots finished 7-16, expected goals 0.24 to 1.42.

Coming into the game, across their last 6 meetings in our records, Colchester had the better of it with 4 wins, 1 drawn. Those games averaged 1.17 goals for Colchester and 0.50 for Grimsby Town.

What was the final score of Colchester vs Grimsby Town?

Colchester 1-2 Grimsby Town in the England - 2nd Division on 28/03/2025. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for Colchester vs Grimsby Town?

Before kick-off our model rated a Colchester win the most likely single outcome at about 41%, with the full match-result split Colchester 41%, draw 32%, Grimsby Town 27%. The final score 1-2 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 (Colchester) ✗ Under 2.5 ✗ BTTS No
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