Championship

Birmingham 2–2 Bristol City

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

No sharp market price is available for this match. Our own model makes Birmingham the most likely outcome at 52%; we make no value call without a sharp benchmark. Recent form — Birmingham: DWDWW; Bristol City: LLWLD.

After the whistle

Match stats

Match statsBirminghamBristol City
Possession %6535
Expected goals (xG)1.981.43
Shots814
Shots on target26
Corners73
Yellow cards21
Red cards00
Fouls1312
Offsides21
Goalkeeper saves41
Pass accuracy %7663

Referee: Will Finnie, England · Venue: St. Andrew's Stadium, Birmingham

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

Starting line-ups

Birmingham 4-2-3-1

  1. James Beadle GK
  2. Bright Osayi-Samuel DF
  3. Phil Neumann DF
  4. Christoph Klarer DF
  5. Alex Cochrane DF
  6. Tomoki Iwata MF
  7. Jhon Solís MF
  8. Carlos Vicente MF
  9. Seung Ho Paik MF
  10. Jay Stansfield MF
  11. August Priske FW

Bristol City 4-2-3-1

  1. Sam Tickle GK
  2. Rio Cardines DF
  3. George Tanner DF
  4. Lisav Naif Eissat DF
  5. Rob Dickie DF
  6. Jason Knight MF
  7. Joe Williams MF
  8. Yu Hirakawa MF
  9. Jed Wallace MF
  10. Scott Twine MF
  11. Lorent Tolaj FW

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/X Home or draw 78%

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

1X2
Other estimates
Our model52%26%22%

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) —
Market Gap —
Confidence —
Prediction result Won · X

Match context

The last 2 head-to-head meetings we tracked split 1–0–1 (Birmingham wins – draws – Bristol City wins).

Birmingham scored 1.2 and conceded 0.6 across their last 5 matches in our results database; Bristol City scored 1 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.

Market-relevant trends

Birmingham is unbeaten in its last 5 matches.
No value Already reflected in the fair price — no value on Birmingham here.
Bristol City has lost its last 2 matches.
No value Already reflected in the fair price — no value on Bristol City 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?

Birmingham
D W D W W
avg 1.2 scored · 0.6 conceded (last 5)
Bristol City
L L W L D
avg 1 scored · 1.4 conceded (last 5)
Recent head-to-head
25 Apr 2026 Birmingham 2–1 Bristol City
25 Oct 2025 Bristol City 1–0 Birmingham

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/X · Home or draw
Odds recorded for the prediction —
Closing odds pending
Prediction CLV —
Result Won
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint 7eb0e6f2e7464b76

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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