Argentina Liga Profesional

Defensa Y Justicia 1–1 Independiente

Half-time · Live score from API-Football, about a minute behind; the official result is confirmed after the match.

The match has started. Before kick-off the sharp market made Defensa Y Justicia the most likely outcome at 43% (fair odds 2.30). We make no new value calls once a match is under way. Recent form — Defensa Y Justicia: WLWWD; Independiente: LDDLW.

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

No value

No value was flagged for this match: before kick-off, no bookmaker price we saw beat the fair price under our rule.

The market's two most likely results

1/X Home or draw 71% · 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, recorded41%30%29%
Other estimates
Our model42%28%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 (as recorded) 1.41
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 2.33 / 3.12 / 3.22
Result in our track record Pending

Starting line-ups

Defensa Y Justicia 4-2-3-1

  1. 1 M. Borgogno GK
  2. 28 V. Loza DF
  3. 32 Nazareno Roselli DF
  4. 21 D. Martínez DF
  5. 30 D. Domínguez DF
  6. 15 S. Sosa MF
  7. 8 C. Pérez MF
  8. 26 J. Lucco MF
  9. 19 D. Barbona MF
  10. 24 J. Gutiérrez MF
  11. 9 L. Fernández FW

Bench: D. Blanco, E. Burdin, A. Hausch, A. Molinas, N. Palavecino, Tiziano Perrota, M. Porcel, A. Portillo, T. Pérez, F. Román, L. Souto, L. Amadé

Coach: J. Vaccari

Regular starters not in the XI

  • Damián Fernández — not in the squad (started 5 of the last 5)

Independiente 4-4-2

  1. 77 S. Mele GK
  2. 4 S. Arias DF
  3. 35 J. Arrayago DF
  4. 36 S. Valdez DF
  5. 5 N. Banegas DF
  6. 7 S. Montiel MF
  7. 16 M. Perez MF
  8. 8 M. Meza MF
  9. 24 J. Palais MF
  10. 6 E. Ávila FW
  11. 20 Facundo Cruz FW

Bench: F. Calderón, L. Cabral, J. Fedorco, L. Godoy, I. Machuca, D. Martínez, Lautaro Millán, I. Morales, Tomás Parmo, R. Rey, F. Tempone, F. Zabala

Coach: Jádson Viera

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.

Match context

Defensa Y Justicia averaged 1.8 goals scored and 0.8 conceded per game over their last 5 matches in our results database; Independiente averaged 0.8 and 1.4 over 5.

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

Why this price?

Defensa Y Justicia
W L W W D
avg 1.8 scored · 0.8 conceded (last 5)
Independiente
L D D L W
avg 0.8 scored · 1.4 conceded (last 5)

Form: most recent match first.

Recent head-to-head
18 Apr 2026 Independiente 3–1 Defensa Y Justicia
04 Jun 2024 Defensa Y Justicia 0–0 Independiente
20 Feb 2023 Independiente 0–2 Defensa Y Justicia
20 Jul 2022 Defensa Y Justicia 2–1 Independiente

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.

Public, timestamped record

Logged before kick-off
Prediction record
Pick 1/X · Home or draw
Odds recorded for the prediction 1.33
Pinnacle closing odds (with margin) pending
Prediction CLV —
Result Pending
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint a3fb1814ad1ef093

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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