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Fleetwood Town — Arsenal FC, 27 October 2026, 20:00 UTC : score 2:1

match finished EFL Cup Tuesday 27 October · 20:00 UTC
Fleetwood Town Fleetwood Town WW
2 : 1 1st half 1:0 penalties 5:3
Arsenal FC LW Arsenal FC
Highbury Stadium · referee M. Salisbury
Match predictionSafe

Arsenal FC +2.5

93% · Arsenal FC games average 4.5 goals

Prediction landed. We predicted “Arsenal FC +2.5”, and the match finished 2:1.

the market is chosen by our model: not always the obvious one, but a likely one

our forecast this is how the model saw the match before kick-off
Fleetwood Town 39% draw 25% Arsenal FC 36%
The model was right

The most likely outcome was Fleetwood Town win, and the match finished 2:1. Fans backed Arsenal FC win — they got it wrong.

fans 76 votes
Fleetwood Town 41% draw 17% Arsenal FC 42%
Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

full timeline
R. Coughlan penalty 1-0 1'
M. Odegaard penalty 1-1 1'
H. Neal penalty 2-1 2'
K. Havertz penalty 2-2 2'
W. Davies penalty 3-2 3'
V. Gyokeres penalty 3-3 3'
A. Cannon penalty 4-3 4'
C. Haughey penalty 5-3 5'
A. Loupalo-Bi assist: H. Neal 1-0 21'
M. Odegaard for M. Salmon 46'
B. White for J. Timber 46'
V. Gyokeres 1-1 50'
C. McLean 54'
A. Murphy for C. McLean 66'
R. Coughlan for C. Evans 66'
E. Eze for C. O'Neill 66'
J. Batty 74'
A. Cannon for M. Helm 74'
Bruno Guimaraes for M. Zubimendi 82'
E. Konsa for M. Lewis-Skelly 82'
W. Davies for A. Loupalo-Bi 82'
M. Dowman 85'
A. Cannon 86'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench
Fleetwood Town Fleetwood Town 5-4-1 4-2-3-1 Arsenal FC Arsenal FC
1 Jay Lynch
26 Shaun Rooney 16 Conor Haughey 6 Rhys Bennett 5 Finley Potter 24 Jake Batty
27 Crispin McLean 4 Harrison Neal 10 Mark Helm 20 Aaron Loupalo-Bi
17 Ched Evans
14 Viktor Gyökeres
56 Max Dowman 29 Kai Havertz 53 Ceadach O'Neill
36 Martín Zubimendi 49 Myles Lewis-Skelly
12 Jurriën Timber 3 Cristhian Mosquera 89 Marli Salmon 5 Piero Hincapié
30 Illan Meslier
Fleetwood Town bench
  1. 15Adam Murphy
  2. 7Andy Cannon
  3. 3Danny Andrew
  4. 22James Pradic
  5. 28Josh Robertson
  6. 11Josh Thomas
  7. 29Raffaele Cirino
  8. 19Ronan Coughlan
  9. 9Will Davies
Arsenal FC bench
  1. 43Andre Harriman-Annous
  2. 4Ben White
  3. 39Bruno Guimarães
  4. 10Eberechi Eze
  5. 15Ezri Konsa
  6. 13Kepa Arrizabalaga
  7. 74Maalik Hashi
  8. 60Marcell Washington
  9. 8Martin Ødegaard

Match stats

21 metrics for the full match
22%Possession78%
3Shots26
2Shots on target7
0Shots off target9
1Blocked shots10
3Shots inside box23
0Shots outside box3
67Attacks147
27Dangerous attacks98
2Corners5
3Offsides3
14Fouls5
3Yellow cards0
0Red cards1
5Saves1
178Passes641
97Accurate passes566
7Free kicks17
17Throw-ins22
17Goal kicks2
0Penalties0
Fleetwood TownFleetwood TownArsenal FCArsenal FCThe source gives no per-half split — only totals for the match

How the match went

text generated from our data

Fleetwood Town and Arsenal FC met in the EFL Cup on 27 October at Highbury Stadium. Final score — 2:1.

Fleetwood Town have played 2 matches (2 wins, 0 draws, 0 losses), won 2 matches in a row. Arsenal FC have played 2 matches (1 win, 0 draws, 1 loss).

Season form

all competitions of the season
Fleetwood Town Fleetwood Town last five Arsenal FC Arsenal FC
WW form LW
2 Matches 2
2 — 0 — 0 Wins — draws — defeats 1 — 0 — 1
3 — 1 Scored — conceded 5 — 4
3 Points per game 1.5
1.5 Goals scored per game 2.5
1 Clean sheets 0
0 Failed to score 0
unbeaten in 2 Current streak winless in 1

Fleetwood Town at home: 2 matches, 2 wins, 0 draws, 0 losses, goals 3—1, 3 points per match.

Arsenal FC away: 2 matches, 1 win, 0 draws, 1 loss, goals 5—4, 1.5 points per match.