EFL Cup

Everton 3–1 Newcastle

Final score · Half-time 2–0 · Latest results

When the micro-edge on Everton was recorded live, the sharp market made Everton the most likely outcome at 43% (fair odds 2.32). On Everton, LeoVegas (SE) offered 2.33 against a fair price of 2.32, a +0.6% gap: too small to call value (Micro-edge). Recent form — Everton: LLDWW; Newcastle: WLLWL.

After the whistle

Goals and cards

  1. 34' 1–0 James Garner · goal · assist Hayden Hackney · Everton
  2. 45' 2–0 Hayden Hackney · goal · assist Thierno Barry · Everton
  3. 60' Hayden Hackney · yellow card · Everton
  4. 69' 3–0 Thierno Barry · goal · assist Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall · Everton
  5. 74' Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall · yellow card · Everton
  6. 81' Fabian Schär · yellow card · Newcastle
  7. 81' Vitaliy Mykolenko · yellow card · Everton
  8. 88' 3–1 Dan Burn · goal · assist Joe Willock · Newcastle
  9. 89' James Tarkowski · yellow card · Everton
  10. 89' Joelinton · yellow card · Newcastle
  11. 89' Dan Burn · yellow card · Newcastle
  12. 89' Jordan Pickford · yellow card · Everton

Match stats

Match statsEvertonNewcastle
Possession %4456
Expected goals (xG)1.882.12
Shots1128
Shots on target59
Corners410
Yellow cards53
Red cards00
Fouls1815
Offsides01
Goalkeeper saves82

What the market said before kick-off

  • Everton win 41% happened
  • Draw 27% did not happen
  • Newcastle win 32% did not happen
  • Over 2.5 goals 58% happened
  • Micro-edge flagged before kick-off (under 1.5%, monitor only): 1 · Everton @ 2.33 (LeoVegas (SE)) Won

CLV -5.3% 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: Farai Hallam · Venue: Hill Dickinson Stadium, Liverpool

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

Starting line-ups

Everton 4-2-3-1

  1. 1 J. Pickford GK
  2. 34 M. Röhl DF
  3. 6 J. Tarkowski DF
  4. 15 J. O'Brien DF
  5. 16 V. Mykolenko DF
  6. 30 H. Hackney MF
  7. 37 J. Garner MF
  8. 20 T. Dibling MF
  9. 8 K. Dewsbury-Hall MF
  10. 19 Tyrique George MF
  11. 11 T. Barry FW

Bench: C. Alcaraz, H. Armstrong, B. Graham, B. Johnson, M. Keane, T. King, A. Maitland-Niles, C. Nørgaard, M. Travers

Coach: D. Moyes

Regular starters not in the XI

  • H. Armstrong — on the bench (started 5 of the last 5)
  • B. Johnson — on the bench (started 4 of the last 5)
  • A. Maitland-Niles — on the bench (started 4 of the last 5)
  • J. Branthwaite — not in the squad (started 4 of the last 5)

Newcastle 4-2-3-1

  1. 21 L. Horníček GK
  2. 37 A. Dedić DF
  3. 5 F. Schär DF
  4. 33 D. Burn DF
  5. 3 L. Hall DF
  6. 6 Nico González MF
  7. 41 J. Ramsey MF
  8. 23 J. Murphy MF
  9. 28 J. Willock MF
  10. 11 H. Barnes MF
  11. 10 W. Osula FW

Bench: M. Thiaw, B. Touré, Y. Wissa, Sean Steur, N. Pope, Joelinton, A. Elanga, S. Botman, A. Bamba

Coach: M. Jaissle

Regular starters not in the XI

  • L. Miley — not in the squad (started 4 of the last 5)
  • M. Thiaw — on the bench (started 4 of the last 5)
  • S. Botman — on the bench (started 4 of the last 5)
  • Y. Wissa — on the bench (started 4 of the last 5)
  • M. Fernandez-Pardo — not in the squad (started 4 of the last 5)

Not in the XI does not mean injured: it can be rotation, a suspension or a knock. We only compare with the team's last 5 line-ups.

Pinnacle, margin removed (home / draw / away): 42 / 26 / 32% when the line-ups came out, 41 / 27 / 32% 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 Everton @ 2.33
Bookmaker LeoVegas (SE)
Price observed
Flag recorded @ 2.33 (LeoVegas (SE)) · recorded live, before kick-off
Market 1X2 (match result)
Availability and exact price varied by country and over time.
Fair price 2.32
LeoVegas (SE) 2.33
Market Gap +0.6%
Value flag result Won · 1 +1.33u

Market discrepancy: before kick-off, Everton (1) was priced at 2.33 by a soft bookmaker, above the fair price of 2.32 — a +0.6% 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.

The market's two most likely results

1/2 Home or away 73% · as recorded

No single result was 55% likely or more when we logged the match, so this line adds up the two most likely outcomes (double chance).

1X2
Sharp, recorded43%27%29%
Other estimates
Our model39%27%34%

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 (as recorded) 1.38
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 2.23 / 3.44 / 3.22
Result in our track record Won · 1

Match context

Everton averaged 0.8 goals scored and 1.2 conceded per game over their last 5 matches in our results database; Newcastle averaged 1.2 and 2.0 over 5.

The sharp market price on Everton has barely moved since opening (2.39 to 2.46) — no significant new information has repriced this match.

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

Market-relevant trends

Everton has lost its last 2 matches.
No value Already reflected in the fair price — no value on Everton 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?

Everton
L L D W W
avg 0.8 scored · 1.2 conceded (last 5)
Newcastle
W L L W L
avg 1.2 scored · 2 conceded (last 5)

Form: most recent match first.

Recent head-to-head
28 Feb 2026 Newcastle 2–3 Everton
29 Nov 2025 Everton 1–4 Newcastle
25 May 2025 Newcastle 0–1 Everton
05 Oct 2024 Everton 0–0 Newcastle
02 Apr 2024 Newcastle 1–1 Everton

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.

Proof & methodology

The timestamped record of this prediction, and how the fair price is made.

Value lifecycle Settled

Detected ·
1 Everton · soft 2.33 (LeoVegas (SE)) · fair 2.32 · edge +0.6%
Opening sharp
2.39
At close
2.46 · CLV -5.3%
Result
Won +1.33u 🔒 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.

Public, timestamped record

Logged before kick-off
Prediction record
Pick 1/2 · Home or away
Odds recorded for the prediction 1.32
Pinnacle closing odds (with margin) 1.34
Prediction CLV -1.5%
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 · Everton
Odds when flagged 2.33
Fair odds 2.32
Fair closing odds (Pinnacle, margin removed) 2.46
Value CLV -5.3%
Profit (units) +1.33
Result Won
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint 1a4ce26ddd9e1240

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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