CSKA Sofia 3–2 Botev Plovdiv
Final score · Half-time 1–1 · All of yesterday's results
The sharp market makes CSKA Sofia the most likely outcome at 58% — fair odds of 1.72. 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 — CSKA Sofia: DDWWL; Botev Plovdiv: DLWLL.
After the whistle
Match stats
| Match stats | CSKA Sofia | Botev Plovdiv |
|---|---|---|
| Possession % | 61 | 39 |
| Shots | 17 | 16 |
| Shots on target | 9 | 9 |
| Corners | 17 | 5 |
| Yellow cards | 2 | 3 |
| Red cards | 0 | 0 |
What the market said before kick-off
- CSKA Sofia win 58% happened
- Draw 24% did not happen
- Botev Plovdiv win 18% did not happen
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.
Next matches
Line-ups, events and match stats: API-Football.
Starting line-ups
CSKA Sofia 4-3-3
- Fedor Lapoukhov GK
- Tamimu Waru DF
- Facundo Rodríguez DF
- Teodor Ivanov DF
- Andrey Yordanov DF
- Max Ebong MF
- Bruno Jordão MF
- Petko Panayotov MF
- Mohamed Amine Brahimi MF
- Joël Zwarts FW
- Léo Pereira MF
Botev Plovdiv 4-2-3-1
- Daniel Naumov GK
- Timothy Awany DF
- Simeon Petrov DF
- Vladimir Mendes DF
- Bryan-Anthony Chibuike Hein DF
- Asen Chandarov MF
- Carlos Algarra López MF
- Carlos Meotti MF
- Nikola Iliev MF
- Samuel Kalu MF
- Chidera Micheal Okoh FW
Pinnacle, margin removed (home / draw / away): 58 / 24 / 18% when the line-ups came out, 58 / 24 / 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 was flagged for this match: before kick-off, no bookmaker price we saw beat the fair price under our rule.
Most likely result
| 1 | X | 2 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sharp, recorded | 58% | 23% | 19% |
Other estimates
| Our model | 64% | 21% | 14% |
|---|
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.
Match context
The last 5 head-to-head meetings we tracked split 4–1–0 (CSKA Sofia wins – draws – Botev Plovdiv wins).
CSKA Sofia scored 1 and conceded 0.8 across their last 5 matches in our results database; Botev Plovdiv scored 1.6 and conceded 1.4 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?
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
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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