Bulgaria First League

Cherno More Varna 0–3 Spartak Varna

Final score · Half-time 0–1 · All of yesterday's results

The sharp market makes Cherno More Varna the most likely outcome at 55% — fair odds of 1.81. No soft bookmaker is offering more than that fair price right now, so there is no value here — the honest call is to pass. Recent form — Cherno More Varna: DLLWW; Spartak Varna: DWWLW.

After the whistle

Match stats

Match statsCherno More VarnaSpartak Varna
Possession %5941
Shots197
Shots on target74
Corners91
Yellow cards13
Red cards00

What the market said before kick-off

  • Cherno More Varna win 54% did not happen
  • Draw 28% did not happen
  • Spartak Varna win 18% happened

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: Dragomir Draganov, Bulgaria · Venue: Ticha Stadium, Varna

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

Starting line-ups

Cherno More Varna 4-2-3-1

  1. Kristian Tomov GK
  2. Ertan Tombak DF
  3. Zhivko Atanasov DF
  4. Luciano Squadrone DF
  5. Ventsislav Kerchev DF
  6. Berk Beyhan MF
  7. David Teles MF
  8. Asen Donchev DF
  9. Vasil Panayotov MF
  10. Miguel Barandas FW
  11. Aleksandar Kolev FW

Spartak Varna 4-2-3-1

  1. Plamen Iliev GK
  2. Deyan Lozev DF
  3. Angel Granchov DF
  4. Joey Tshitoku DF
  5. Boris Ivanov DF
  6. Tsvetoslav Marinov MF
  7. Damian Yordanov MF
  8. Jota Lopes MF
  9. Tomás Silva MF
  10. Georg Stojanovski FW
  11. Georgi Trifonov FW

Pinnacle, margin removed (home / draw / away): 54 / 28 / 18% when the line-ups came out, 54 / 28 / 18% at kick-off. The price barely moved after the line-ups.

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

No value

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

Most likely result

1 Home win 55%
1X2
Sharp, recorded55%27%18%
Other estimates
Our model55%26%19%

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) 1.81
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 1.74 / 3.39 / 4.99
Market Gap —
Confidence —
Prediction result Lost · 2

Match context

The last 4 head-to-head meetings we tracked split 2–2–0 (Cherno More Varna wins – draws – Spartak Varna wins).

Cherno More Varna scored 1.4 and conceded 1.8 across their last 5 matches in our results database; Spartak Varna scored 1.8 and conceded 0.8 in 5.

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

Why this price?

Cherno More Varna
D L L W W
avg 1.4 scored · 1.8 conceded (last 5)
Spartak Varna
D W W L W
avg 1.8 scored · 0.8 conceded (last 5)
Recent head-to-head
07 Feb 2026 Cherno More Varna 0–0 Spartak Varna
16 Aug 2025 Spartak Varna 1–3 Cherno More Varna
08 Mar 2025 Cherno More Varna 1–1 Spartak Varna
22 Sep 2024 Spartak Varna 0–2 Cherno More Varna

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 1.74
Closing odds 1.79
Prediction CLV -2.8%
Result Lost
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint e5d8f1c0387056bc

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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