The favourite delivered: Scotland (60% pre-match) beat Haiti 1–0.
Expected goals race
HaitiScotland● goal
Cumulative expected goals, minute by minute. ESPN's free feed has no xG, so each shot's xG is estimated with a naive distance-and-angle logistic model fitted on shot coordinates from the play-by-play.
Shot map
Haiti (attacking →)Scotland (attacking ←)size = xG · star = goal
Haiti · match stats · Scotland
53.7Possession46.3
15Shots9
2On Target2
4Corners3
23Fouls21
3Offsides1
1Saves2
1Yellows3
0Reds0
What the model expected
Pre-match Elo: Haiti 1600, Scotland 1760. The model priced this Haiti 18% / draw 22% / Scotland 60%, most likely score 0–1. The model called it. The result moves 14 Elo points from Haiti to Scotland — that flows straight into the next round of tournament simulations.
Timeline
28'GOALGoal! Haiti 0, Scotland 1. John McGinn (Scotland) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal.
39'YELLOWJean-Ricner Bellegarde (Haiti) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
46'YELLOWAaron Hickey (Scotland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.