Form, head-to-head and trends for both teams

Form is more than results

The Form & trends section shows six tiles per team, always in pairs: goals scored and conceded, corners won and against, cards shown and against. Next to them runs a row of recent results, where W is a win, D a draw and L a loss.

There are two switches at the top. The first sets the averaging window — the last 5, 10 or 20 matches, or the whole season. The second picks the venue: all matches, home only, or away only.

The colour of a figure isn't decoration. It compares the value in the window with the same team's season average, so green means "recent matches are above its own standard", not "this is a good number".

Home and away, kept apart

Some teams play completely differently at home than away, and an average across everything blends that into a number that fits neither. That's what the switch is for — for a given fixture it pays to select the half that matches the team's role.

Head-to-head

The H2H section shows the matches these two teams have played against each other. They're interesting, but there are few of them: five to ten across several seasons, often with different players and managers.

Small samples behave wildly. Three matches aren't enough for a conclusion, ten start to suggest something — which is exactly why every figure shows how many matches it was calculated from. When there are few, treat it as a curiosity rather than an argument.

What the model takes from it

The model doesn't use "form" as a single number. It takes the individual quantities separately and weighs them. The widget shows you those same inputs, so you can check whether the conclusion makes sense.