China Super League

Chengdu Better City 0–1 Dalian Zhixing

Final score · Half-time 0–0 · Latest results

When the value flag on Chengdu Better City was recorded live, the sharp market made Chengdu Better City the most likely outcome at 55% (fair odds 1.83). On Chengdu Better City, BetOnline.ag offered 1.91, +4.2% above its fair price of 1.83 (Strong value). Recent form — Chengdu Better City: LLDWL; Dalian Zhixing: WWWDW.

After the whistle

Goals and cards

  1. 12' He Yiran · yellow card · Chengdu Better City
  2. 22' P. Delgado · yellow card · Dalian Zhixing
  3. 40' Felipe Silva · missed penalty · Chengdu Better City
  4. 40' I. Alimi · yellow card · Dalian Zhixing
  5. 66' 0–1 M. Traore · goal · assist N. Stanciu · Dalian Zhixing
  6. 85' Liao Jintao · yellow card · Dalian Zhixing
  7. 90' H. Hu · disallowed by VAR · Chengdu Better City

Match stats

Match statsChengdu Better CityDalian Zhixing
Possession %4555
Shots125
Shots on target42
Corners72
Yellow cards13
Red cards00
Fouls1015
Offsides23
Goalkeeper saves15
Pass accuracy %7678

What the market said before kick-off

  • Chengdu Better City win 51% did not happen
  • Draw 23% did not happen
  • Dalian Zhixing win 26% happened
  • Over 2.5 goals 57% did not happen
  • Value flag before kick-off: 1 · Chengdu Better City @ 1.91 (BetOnline.ag) Lost

CLV -3.2% 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: Peng Deng, China · Venue: Shuangliu Sports Centre, Chengdu

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

Starting line-ups

Chengdu Better City 4-2-3-1

  1. 32 Liu Dianzuo GK
  2. 4 He Yiran DF
  3. 18 Han Pengfei DF
  4. 28 Egor Sorokin DF
  5. 2 Hu Hetao DF
  6. 16 Yang Ming-Yang MF
  7. 5 Matheus Jussa MF
  8. 11 Wellington Silva MF
  9. 10 Rômulo MF
  10. 27 Baihelamu Abuduwaili MF
  11. 9 Felipe Silva FW

Bench: Weifeng Ran, Tao Jian, Wang Dongsheng, Yang Li, Liao Rongxiang, Iminqari Mutallep, Gan Chao, Liao Lisheng, Feng Zhuoyi, Mirahmetjan Muzepper, Wang Ziming

Dalian Zhixing 4-2-3-1

  1. 20 Weiguo Liu GK
  2. 38 Lü Zhuoyi DF
  3. 2 Mamadou Traoré DF
  4. 6 Yue Song DF
  5. 12 Feng Boxuan DF
  6. 40 Jintao Liao MF
  7. 4 Isnik Alimi MF
  8. 9 Pedro Delgado MF
  9. 10 Nicolae Stanciu MF
  10. 7 Luo Jing MF
  11. 30 Frank Acheampong FW

Bench: Zihao Huang, Ge Peng, Haiqing Cao, Kangbo Sun, Peng Shunjie, Feng Jin, Huachen Zhang, Peng Lü, Yang Mingrui, Shan Huang, Chengrui Zhang, Lirong Xiao

Pinnacle, margin removed (home / draw / away): 49 / 23 / 28% when the line-ups came out, 51 / 23 / 26% 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 opportunity before kick-off Strong value

1 Chengdu Better City @ 1.91
Bookmaker BetOnline.ag
Price observed
Flag recorded @ 1.91 (BetOnline.ag) · recorded live, before kick-off
Market 1X2 (match result)
Availability and exact price varied by country and over time.
Fair price 1.83
BetOnline.ag 1.91
Market Gap +4.2%
Confidence High
Model agreement Medium

Confidence reflects only the sharp probability of the selection: high from 50%, medium from 40%, low below. It says how likely the result is, not how big the price gap is. Model agreement shows how close our own model is to the sharp market on this selection — when it is Low, the market and our model disagree, so treat the flag with more caution.

Value flag result Lost · 1 -1.00u

Market discrepancy: before kick-off, Chengdu Better City (1) was priced at 1.91 by a soft bookmaker, above the fair price of 1.83 — a +4.2% gap. An observation about the price, not an instruction to bet.

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

Two most likely results

1/2 Home or away 78% · as recorded

When no single result is likely enough, our pick covers the two most probable outcomes (double chance).

1X2
Sharp, recorded54%22%24%
Other estimates
Our model44%26%30%

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) 1.28
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 1.77 / 4.11 / 3.80
Pick result (single or double chance) Won · 2

Value lifecycle Settled

Detected ·
1 Chengdu Better City · soft 1.91 (BetOnline.ag) · fair 1.83 · edge +4.2%
Opening sharp
1.77
At close
1.97 · CLV -3.2%
Result
Lost -1.00u 🔒 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

Chengdu Better City averaged 1.2 goals scored and 2.0 conceded per game over their last 5 matches in our results database; Dalian Zhixing averaged 2.2 and 0.6 over 5.

Since opening around 1.77, the sharp market price on Chengdu Better City has drifted to 1.97 — the market has moved against 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

Chengdu Better City has lost its last 2 matches.
✓ And the market hasn't fully priced it in: value flagged on Chengdu Better City at +4.2% above fair.
Dalian Zhixing has won its last 3 matches.
No value Already reflected in the fair price — no value on Dalian Zhixing 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?

Chengdu Better City
L L D W L
avg 1.2 scored · 2 conceded (last 5)
Dalian Zhixing
W W W D W
avg 2.2 scored · 0.6 conceded (last 5)

Form: most recent match first.

Recent head-to-head
23 May 2026 Dalian Zhixing 2–0 Chengdu Better City

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 1/2 · Home or away
Odds recorded for the prediction 1.21
Pinnacle closing odds (with margin) 1.25
Prediction CLV -3.3%
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 · Chengdu Better City
Odds when flagged 1.91
Fair odds 1.83
Fair closing odds (Pinnacle, margin removed) 1.97
Value CLV -3.2%
Profit (units) -1.00
Result Lost
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint cae1cce3b843eeb8

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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