Sporting 1–1 Bologna — UEFA Champions League 2024/25 Match Stats

UEFA Champions League · 2024Wed, 29 Jan 2025, 20:00 UTC

Sporting

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1–1Historical match

Bologna

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A completed match from a finished season. This page is the record of what happened.

Match at a glance

Sporting and Bologna drew 1–1.

Shots: 911
Shots on target: 52
Expected goals: 1.381.14
Possession: 57%43%

Full time

What the match recorded

Sporting and Bologna drew 1–1. Recorded in this match (Sporting – Bologna): shots 9–11, shots on target 5–2, expected goals 1.38–1.14, possession 57%–43%. This is what was recorded. It is not a claim that the result was foreseeable.

Pre-match record

What the data showed before kick-off. Kept for reference; it did not know the result.

Bologna's recent record differs from the season

moderate

Bologna's last-five goals scored average is above their season average.

0.8 goals/match ▲Goals forLast 5 · Season0.5 goals/match

Evidence and caveat

Comparison: An unweighted last-five average is compared with the unweighted season average.

Window: last_5 versus season

Metric	Last 5	Season	Baseline
Goals for	0.8 goals/match	0.5 goals/match	1.63 goals/match

Caveat: Five matches are sensitive to opponent mix and isolated match states.

This match

Match statistics

Shots9 shots11 shotsSporting 9 shots, Bologna 11 shots
Shots on target5 shots2 shotsSporting 5 shots, Bologna 2 shots
Expected goals1.38 xG1.14 xGSporting 1.38 xG, Bologna 1.14 xG
Possession57%43%Sporting 57%, Bologna 43%
Corners5 corners6 cornersSporting 5 corners, Bologna 6 corners
Fouls18 fouls29 foulsSporting 18 fouls, Bologna 29 fouls

Every shot

Shot map

Every recorded shot, placed where it was taken and sized by its expected-goals value. Arrows show each team’s attacking direction.

off target
on target
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Sporting: 9 shots, 5 on target, 1.34 xG. Bologna: 11 shots, 2 on target, 1.13 xG.

How the match built

Expected-goals timeline

Expected goals accumulated minute by minute. Circles mark the goals that were actually scored.

The step line is cumulative expected goals; circles mark goals. Final: Sporting 1.34 xG · Bologna 1.13 xG.

Metric comparison

Team comparison

Season averages, with the sample size beside each metric.

Where the edge is

Season: Sporting favored in 6 of 11 directional metrics · Bologna in 4 · 1 too close

led this metric higher value (descriptive) too close

Window

Season

Sporting8 matchesBologna8 matches

1.63 goals/match ▲Goals scored8/80.5 goals/match

1.5 goals/matchGoals allowed8/8▲ 1.13 goals/match

1.5 xG/match ▲Expected goals8/80.98 xG/match

13 shots/match ▲Shots8/811.8 shots/match

4.5 shots/match ▲Shots on target8/83.38 shots/match

49.6% ●Possession8/849.4%

4.25 corners/matchCorners8/8● 4.5 corners/match

11.4 fouls/matchFouls8/814.4 fouls/match

Evidence quality

How much supports this analysis

Grade B · Useful evidenceUseful evidence — limited

Season samples8 / 8home / away teams

Recent samples5 / 5last-five windows

FreshnessLess than one dayfrom nearest prior match

Evidence is usable but does not meet the strongest completeness threshold.

Known unknowns

Lineups, injuries, suspensions and tactical changes are not available in the retained dataset.
Some metrics are unavailable or below their observation minimum: cards.
The fixture season differs from the competition's configured active season.

Analysis cutoff: Thu, 30 Jan 2025, 00:00 UTC · analysis-v4