J1 League

Urawa 3–2 JEF United Chiba

Final score · Half-time 1–1 · Latest results

When the micro-edge on Urawa was recorded live, the sharp market made Urawa the most likely outcome at 61% (fair odds 1.64). On Urawa, 1xBet offered 1.65 against a fair price of 1.64, a +0.5% gap: too small to call value (Micro-edge). Recent form — Urawa: WLLDL; JEF United Chiba: DDLDL.

After the whistle

Goals and cards

  1. 15' Daisuke Suzuki · yellow card · JEF United Chiba
  2. 19' 1–0 Takuro Kaneko · goal · Urawa
  3. 31' 1–1 Boniface Nduka · goal · assist Takuya Yasui · JEF United Chiba
  4. 55' 2–1 Kenta Nemoto · goal · assist Matheus Sávio · Urawa
  5. 66' Ken Yamura · yellow card · JEF United Chiba
  6. 68' Kazuki Tanaka · yellow card · JEF United Chiba
  7. 81' 3–1 Shuta Sasa · goal · assist Tatsuki Seko · Urawa
  8. 87' Matheus Salgueiro Pains · yellow card · JEF United Chiba
  9. 89' Taishi Taguchi · yellow card · JEF United Chiba
  10. 90+1' 3–2 Takumi Tsukui · goal · assist Erison Danilo de Souza · JEF United Chiba

Match stats

Match statsUrawaJEF United Chiba
Possession %5149
Expected goals (xG)1.311.58
Shots1014
Shots on target42
Corners63
Yellow cards05
Red cards00
Fouls714
Offsides02
Goalkeeper saves01

What the market said before kick-off

  • Urawa win 66% happened
  • Draw 20% did not happen
  • JEF United Chiba win 14% did not happen
  • Over 2.5 goals 56% happened
  • Micro-edge flagged before kick-off (under 1.5%, monitor only): 1 · Urawa @ 1.65 (1xBet) Won

CLV +8.8% vs the fair close. One flag on its own says little; the rule is judged on all of them.

Pinnacle closing price with the margin removed, next to what happened. It is the market's view, not a tip: an outcome priced at 30% happens about 3 times in 10.

Referee: Koji Takasaki · Venue: Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama

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Line-ups, events and match stats: API-Football.

Starting line-ups

Urawa 3-4-2-1

  1. 1 S. Nishikawa GK
  2. 3 Danilo Boza DF
  3. 2 Y. Miyamoto DF
  4. 5 K. Nemoto DF
  5. 6 M. Yamane MF
  6. 25 K. Yasui MF
  7. 12 T. Seko MF
  8. 88 Y. Naganuma MF
  9. 7 T. Kaneko MF
  10. 10 Matheus Sávio MF
  11. 36 R. Hidano FW

Bench: K. Fukui, Samuel Gustafson, J. Hayakawa, K. Hayashi, H. Komori, K. Kudo, A. Onaiwu, S. Sasa, H. Ueki

Coach: Gwi-jae Jo

JEF United Chiba 4-4-2

  1. 19 J. Suarez GK
  2. 15 T. Mae DF
  3. 13 D. Suzuki DF
  4. 2 B. Nduka DF
  5. 67 M. Hidaka DF
  6. 7 K. Tanaka MF
  7. 6 Dudu MF
  8. 41 T. Yasui MF
  9. 37 M. Himeno MF
  10. 99 Erison FW
  11. 29 K. Yamura FW

Bench: T. Tsukui, K. Toriumi, T. Taguchi, R. Suzuki, N. Sugiyama, Leonardo Rocha, Matheus Índio, T. Kawano, H. Goya

Coach: Y. Kobayashi

Pinnacle, margin removed (home / draw / away): 65 / 20 / 15% when the line-ups came out, 66 / 20 / 14% at kick-off.

In the big leagues, line-up news is usually already in the price by the time it is official.

The most likely result is not the same as value: value is where a bookmaker pays more than the fair price, and the two can point to different outcomes.

Value check before kick-off Micro-edge

1 Urawa @ 1.65
Bookmaker 1xBet
Price observed
Flag recorded @ 1.65 (1xBet) · recorded live, before kick-off
Market 1X2 (match result)
Availability and exact price varied by country and over time.
Fair price 1.64
1xBet 1.65
Market Gap +0.5%
Value flag result Won · 1 +0.65u

Market discrepancy: before kick-off, Urawa (1) was priced at 1.65 by a soft bookmaker, above the fair price of 1.64 — a +0.5% gap. An observation about the price, not an instruction to bet.

The gap was smaller than 1.5% — likely to vanish in rounding, latency or line movement. We logged it for transparency, but it was not a strong signal.

A single result where a bookmaker pays above the fair price — separate from the main prediction below.

Most likely result

1 Home win 57% · as recorded
1X2
Sharp, recorded57%23%19%
Other estimates
Our model53%26%22%

Sharp, recorded = Pinnacle when we logged the match (it can be days old). Our model = our own estimate, which on average predicts worse than the market.

Fair odds of the pick (as recorded) 1.74
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 1.68 / 3.92 / 4.64
Pick result (single or double chance) Won · 1

Value lifecycle Settled

Detected ·
1 Urawa · soft 1.65 (1xBet) · fair 1.64 · edge +0.5%
Opening sharp
1.68
At close
1.52 · CLV +8.8%
Result
Won +0.65u 🔒 Recorded live before kick-off

“Detected” is the moment the flag was first shown on the site and written to our ledger (recorded live since 26 September 2026). For earlier matches the flag was reconstructed afterwards from the prices we had stored, and the time shown is when the rule would have fired: a backtest, not a live record. When the gap closes, we say so instead of pretending the value is still there.

Match context

Urawa averaged 0.4 goals scored and 1.4 conceded per game over their last 5 matches in our results database; JEF United Chiba averaged 1.2 and 1.8 over 5.

Since opening around 1.68, the sharp market price on Urawa has shortened to 1.52 — the market has moved towards this outcome.

These figures come from our own tracked results and odds snapshots for this fixture — not from a generic stats feed.

Market-relevant trends

JEF United Chiba is winless in its last 5 matches.
No value Already reflected in the fair price — no value on JEF United Chiba here.

We show the trend and whether it is already in the price. Most sites show the streak and let you assume you should bet it.

Why this price?

Urawa
W L L D L
avg 0.4 scored · 1.4 conceded (last 5)
JEF United Chiba
D D L D L
avg 1.2 scored · 1.8 conceded (last 5)

Form: most recent match first.

Recent head-to-head
02 May 2026 Urawa 2–0 JEF United Chiba
07 Feb 2026 JEF United Chiba 0–2 Urawa

Recent form and head-to-head from our settled results — context behind the fair price. The price itself comes from the sharp market, not from these alone.

Public, timestamped record

Logged before kick-off
Prediction record
Pick 1 · Home win
Odds recorded for the prediction 1.68
Pinnacle closing odds (with margin) 1.49
Prediction CLV +12.8%
Result Won
Value-bet record

Recorded when the site showed it, before kick-off. Its seal is in our public export once this match’s row is published, and in the next daily external snapshot (07:40 Bucharest time: 04:40 UTC in summer time, 05:40 UTC in winter); for flags recorded on match day that snapshot comes after kick-off, so the pre-kick-off proof is our own timestamp.

Value selection 1 · Urawa
Odds when flagged 1.65
Fair odds 1.64
Fair closing odds (Pinnacle, margin removed) 1.52
Value CLV +8.8%
Profit (units) +0.65
Result Won
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint f803bea1988920a7

This hash fingerprints the prediction as recorded: teams, kick-off time, our model probabilities, the Pinnacle prices recorded for it (at logging or, if there were none, the first quoted after logging and before kick-off, which can be written in after the match) and the log time. A later edit to any of them would change it (a rescheduled kick-off changes it too). It does not cover closing prices, the result or the value-bet record above; value flags recorded live have their own seal in the public record. Verify in the public record →

Every day a snapshot of the full public record is published to a public Git repository and timestamped with OpenTimestamps. Timestamped snapshots are never overwritten and the Git history shows any difference, so a later change to a past row is visible by comparing two snapshots. The corrections file lists the corrections we announced. Verify on the public log →

Since 20 June 2026 the public record is snapshotted daily (07:40 Bucharest time: 04:40 UTC in summer time, 05:40 UTC in winter) to an external log. A prediction is externally timestamped before kick-off only if it was in a snapshot taken before the match; predictions logged on match day, or whose Pinnacle price was added after logging, first appear there after kick-off. Value flags have been recorded live only since 26 September 2026; earlier value flags were reconstructed on that date.

Methodology

The fair price comes from the sharp market itself: we strip the margin from Pinnacle-style odds — the most accurate public predictor in existence — and use our calibrated Elo + form model as a cross-check and as the fallback where no sharp price exists. Value is flagged only where a softer bookmaker prices a selection above that fair price, never on long shots (implied probability under 30%), and never beyond a plausible band. Most of the time there is no value — and we say so.

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