Preston x Wigan Betting tips for January 9 in England FA Cup
| 📅 9/1/2026 19:30 |
 Preston1.83 |
X 3.50 |
Wigan  3.90 |
This is the bet from our artificial intelligence for Preston x Wigan:
🔮 Preston wins the match
💰 When you bet the bonus of $500 from Bet365 on Preston, you can win up to $915.00!
The main points for the tip for Preston x Wigan:
👉 If you had bet $100 on Preston in each of its last 5 matches as home, you would have had a loss of $-352.0.
👉 If you had bet $100 on Wigan in each of its last 5 matches as away, you would have had a profit of $10.0.
👉 In the last 7 matches as the home team, Preston scored at least 1 goal(s).
👉 In the last 4 matches as the home team against Wigan, Preston scored at least 1 goal(s).
👉 In the last 3 head-to-head matches between Preston x Wigan, with Preston as the home team, they finished over 2.5 goals.
👉 Preston has won all the last 4 matches playing at home against Wigan.
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Analysis from Preston x Wigan for the England FA Cup – 9 of January
🏟️ Preston X Wigan – England FA Cup
📅 9 of January, 2026 – 19:30
🔵 Preston – Winning probability: 64.04% | Fair line: 1.56
⚪ Tied game – Probability of tied match: 16.42% | Fair line: 6.09
🔴 Wigan – Winning probability: 19.55% | Fair line: 5.12
⚖ Handicap 1×2: -0.25 Preston
⚽ Expected goals: 2.75 goals
⛳ Expected corner kicks: 9.75 corner kicks
Tips for the Match Odds market for Preston x Wigan
Even though it may not seem intuitive, a good betting model should not seek to get the result for Preston x Wigan right, but instead show us in which events we have a positive expected value opportunity.
And to do so, the algorithm analysed more than 1460349 matches on our football database looking for patterns to find the probabilities of the match ending with a victory for the home team, a tie or even a victory for the away team. Getting down to these values:
Is betting on Preston worth it?
🔵 Preston: the algorithm believes the chances of this event happening are 64.04% and we have noticed that the avarage odds offered by the bookmakers are 1.83. That is, when you make 1000 bets of $1 like this one, you:
- Would have hit 640 times – having a profit of $531.20;
- And would have lost other 360 times – with a loss of -$360.00 because of them.
That is why this is a value bet. In the end, you would have had a final profit of 💰$171.20.
Is it worth betting on draw?
⚪ draw: the model predicted that the probability of this event happening is 16.42% and we know that avarage odds offered by the bookies are 3.50. That is, when you make 1000 bets of $1 like this one, you:
- Would hit 160 times – this would give you a profit of $400.00
- And would lose other 840 times – having a loss of -$840.00 with them.
We are talking about a bet without profit, because after all you would have an expected final loss of 💰-$440.00.
Is betting on Wigan worth it?
🔴 Wigan: the algorithm believes the chances of this event happening are 19.55% and we have noticed that the avarage odds offered by the bookmakers are 3.90. That is, when you make 1000 bets of $1 like this one, you:
- Would have hit 200 times – having a profit of $580.00;
- And would have lost other 800 times – with a loss of -$800.00 because of them.
We are talking about a bet without profit, because after all you would have an expected final loss of 💰-$220.00.
Handicaps analysis for the match Preston x Wigan
Another approach is trying to find the fair handicap for the main markets and our machine learning model will also give you a helping hand with that. In case you do not know what handicaps are, we will solve this problem now: we sorted out the material about Asian handicap on betting so you can click and save it to learn about it on the first opportunity.
These are the handicaps that our algorithm analysed for you:
⚖ Handicap 1×2: -0.25 Preston
⚽ Expected goals: 2.75 goals
Tips for the Handicap 1×2 market for Preston x Wigan
⚖ Handicap 1×2: considering the estimates of our model, the main handicap should be -0.25 Preston, and the current handicap offered by bookies is -0.5 Preston.
Since the difference between the handicap we calculated and the offered by the bookie is 0.25, this means that the best bet for the Handicap 1×2 is on: 0.5 Wigan.
Tips for the Goals Handicap market for Preston x Wigan
⚽ Goals Handicap: our model believes that the ideal handicap is 2.75 goals and the available handicap to bet at the moment is 2.25 goals.
Since the difference between the handicap we calculated and the offered by the bookie is 0.50, this means that the best bet for the Goals Handicap is on: + 2.25 goals.
