Premier League · England · Regular Season - 3

Manchester City–Coventry

1–0

HT 1–0

Kick-off: Saturday, 5 September 2026 at 14:00
Status: Match Finished
Venue: Etihad Stadium, Manchester

What the model said, and what happened

Prediction correct

This verdict goes into the public record unchanged; we do not filter out the ones we get wrong. The model's track record

Goals and red cards

26'Manchester CityE. Haaland (assist: A. Semenyo)

Match statistics

Match statistics
Manchester City		Coventry
15	Shots	12
4	Shots on target	3
14	Shots inside the box	8
3	Goalkeeper saves	2
4	Corners	5
5	Offsides	2
78%	Possession	22%
819	Passes	220
751	Accurate passes

What we expected, and what happened

Shots Manchester City 15 · Coventry 12; on target 4 and 3.
Manchester City kept the ball more (78%).

Unavailable players

Manchester City

Allanout · Transfer negotiations
J. Dokuout · Calf Injury
E. Fernandezdoubtful · Coach's decision
M. Nunesdoubtful · injury

Coventry

H. Wrightout · Muscle Injury
K. Kesler-Haydenout · Muscle Injury
L. Woolfendenout · Knee Injury
S. Mfuniout · Loan agreement
Y. Gbohoout · Transfer negotiations
F. Onyekadoubtful · not in squad

Provider data — may change until the line-ups are announced. Last updated: Wednesday, 16 September 2026 at 15:11.

Referee

P. Tierney→

3.75

yellows per match

0.10

reds per match

matches of data

Model prediction

No probability is published for this match.

One of the teams has only 2 matches in this league (at least 10 are required). A percentage produced from thin data is a guess dressed as certainty — we don't show it.

7	Fouls	17

1	Yellow cards	2

0	Red cards	0

Week 3 of the season. This prediction was computed from previous seasons. Summer transfers, budget changes and squad rebuilds aren't in the ratings yet — the model can only see that a team has been rebuilt once new results come in.

We measured this: the bias is only pronounced in the opening week. In this week the model's overall accuracy does not separate from the rest of the season — that is, we found no measurable flaw. The one tendency across all opening weeks is that home wins are called slightly too often (said 43.0%, got 41.9%; n=583).

This sample is small and not statistically established, which is why we do not correct the model for it. The correction we tried (pulling probabilities toward the league average) didn't win on holdout, so it wasn't added. Read opening-week predictions with a little more caution.