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Wigan Athletic First Half Goals
In 194 EFL League One matches, 70.6% of Wigan Athletic’s first halves produced a goal, 15th of the 35 published clubs in the division. They scored before halftime in 43.8% of them and conceded in 40.2%.
What Wigan Athletic’s first halves look like
The back line is a different proposition on the road: 48.5% of away matches bring an early goal against Wigan Athletic, next to 32.0% at home. Wigan Athletic guard the first half better than they attack it: 9th of 35 in the division for early goals conceded, 19th for scoring them.
An early goal in Wigan Athletic’s matches tends to be the only one: a second follows just 40% of the time, where the division manages 47%. There is more record to read here than for most of the division: 194 matches against a typical 138.
Home advantage is worth a little to Wigan Athletic rather than a lot: 46.4% of home matches bring an early goal of theirs against 41.2% away. Two goals before the break is unusually hard to come by, 28.4% of Wigan Athletic’s matches against 32.8% across the division.
Every figure on this page rests on 194 completed Wigan Athletic matches over 5 seasons (2021 to 2026). That is enough to separate a clear tendency from noise, and not enough to split it much further by venue or opponent.
Wigan Athletic first-half profile
| A goal before halftime (over 0.5) | 70.6% |
|---|---|
| Two or more (over 1.5) | 28.4% |
| Three or more (over 2.5) | 7.7% |
| Average first-half goals in their matches | 1.08 |
| Matches in which they scored before halftime | 43.8% |
| Matches in which they conceded before halftime | 40.2% |
| First-half goals scored per match | 0.56 |
| First-half goals conceded per match | 0.53 |
| Matches counted | 194 |
| Seasons covered | 5 (2021 to 2026) |
The over rows count goals by either side; the scored and conceded rows split that between them.
Home and away
| Venue | Over 0.5 | Over 1.5 | Scored | Conceded | Avg goals | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 69.1% | 26.8% | 46.4% | 32.0% | 1.01 | 97 |
| Away | 72.2% | 29.9% | 41.2% | 48.5% | 1.15 | 97 |
Wigan Athletic score before halftime 46.4% of the time at home against 41.2% away, a gap of 5.2pp. Each row rests only on the matches played at that venue, so read them as two separate samples rather than one split in half.
Wigan Athletic against EFL League One
| Line | Wigan Athletic | EFL League One | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 0.5 | 70.6% | 70.1% | +0.5pp |
| Over 1.5 | 28.4% | 32.8% | −4.4pp |
| Over 2.5 | 7.7% | 10.5% | −2.8pp |
Counted from 194 matches · 5 seasons · 2021 to 2026.
How to read these numbers
- These are historical rates over pooled seasons, not a forecast. A club that has changed manager, division or squad reads as the average of every version of itself on record.
- The opponent matters as much as the club. A high-scoring side against a defense that rarely concedes early is a different fixture from the same side against one that does.
For the model’s estimate of an actual upcoming fixture rather than this club’s history, see first half goals predictions and how the model works.
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