Championship · England · Regular Season - 3

Bolton–Lincoln

0–1

HT 0–0

Kick-off: Saturday, 29 August 2026 at 14:00
Status: Match Finished
Venue: Toughsheet Community Stadium, Bolton

What the model said, and what happened

Incorrect — we gave this result 33%double chance: 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

66'LincolnB. House (assist: C. Elder)

Match statistics

Match statistics
Bolton		Lincoln
21	Shots	8
6	Shots on target	2
13	Shots inside the box	5
1	Goalkeeper saves	7
14	Corners	2
0	Offsides	4
68%	Possession	32%
528	Passes	253
454	Accurate passes

What we expected, and what happened

Shots Bolton 21 · Lincoln 8; on target 6 and 2.
Bolton kept the ball more (68%).

Unavailable players

Bolton

R. Rodriguesout · Knee Injury
X. Simonsout · red-card suspension

Lincoln

J. Collinsout · Knee Injury
S. Bradleyout · Knock
T. Darikwaout · Knee Injury

Provider data — may change until the line-ups are announced. Last updated: Wednesday, 16 September 2026 at 15:10.

Referee

Benjamin Speedie, England→

2.50

yellows per match

0.00

reds per match

matches of data

2 matches is a small sample — these averages are noisy and should not be read as a tendency.

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.

6	Fouls	15

0	Yellow cards	3

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.