With aspirations of taking full advantage of their current games in hand, we predict that Barnsley will edge out an end-to-end five-goal thriller at The Valley.
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Data Analysis
Our analysis of all available data, including recent performances and player stats up until an hour before kickoff, suggested the most likely outcome of this match was a Charlton Athletic win with a probability of 40.23%. A win for Barnsley had a probability of 33.44% and a draw had a probability of 26.3%.
The most likely scoreline for a Charlton Athletic win was 1-0 with a probability of 10.21%. The next most likely scorelines for that outcome were 2-1 (8.58%) and 2-0 (7%). The likeliest Barnsley win was 0-1 (9.14%), while for a drawn scoreline it was 1-1 (12.52%). The actual scoreline of 2-0 was predicted with a 7% likelihood. Our data analysis correctly predicted that Charlton Athletic would win this match.