Primeira Liga

Sporting CP 2–0 Nacional

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

The sharp market makes Sporting CP the most likely outcome at 85% — fair odds of 1.17. 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 — Sporting CP: WWWDL; Nacional: LLWDW.

After the whistle

Match stats

Match statsSporting CPNacional
Possession %6733
Shots193
Shots on target82
Corners120
Yellow cards21
Red cards00
Fouls107
Offsides12
Goalkeeper saves26

What the market said before kick-off

  • Sporting CP win 89% happened
  • Draw 8% did not happen
  • Nacional win 3% did not happen
  • Over 2.5 goals 72% 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.

Referee: Joao Pedro Pinheiro, Portugal · Venue: Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon

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

Starting line-ups

Sporting CP 4-2-3-1

  1. Rui Silva GK
  2. Iván Fresneda DF
  3. Z. Debast DF
  4. Gonçalo Inácio DF
  5. M. Araújo DF
  6. Sergi Altimira MF
  7. I. Doumbia MF
  8. Geny Catamo MF
  9. R. Zalazar MF
  10. Flávio Gonçalves MF
  11. L. Suárez FW

Nacional 3-4-2-1

  1. Renato Bellucci GK
  2. Léo Santos DF
  3. Francisco Gonçalves DF
  4. Zé Vitor DF
  5. Wesley Gasolina MF
  6. Miguel Baeza MF
  7. Matheus Dias MF
  8. W. Kokolo MF
  9. S. Gavriel MF
  10. M. Jensen MF
  11. Pablo Ruan FW

Pinnacle, margin removed (home / draw / away): 89 / 8 / 3% when the line-ups came out, 89 / 8 / 3% 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 85%
1X2
Sharp, recorded85%10%5%
Other estimates
Our model87%10%3%

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) 1.17
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 1.16 / 8.65 / 16.22
Market Gap —
Confidence —
Prediction result Won · 1

Match context

The last 5 head-to-head meetings we tracked split 5–0–0 (Sporting CP wins – draws – Nacional wins).

Sporting CP scored 2.6 and conceded 1.4 across their last 5 matches in our results database; Nacional scored 1.6 and conceded 1.2 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

Sporting CP has won its last 3 matches.
No value Already reflected in the fair price — no value on Sporting CP here.
Nacional has lost its last 2 matches.
No value Already reflected in the fair price — no value on Nacional 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?

Sporting CP
W W W D L
avg 2.6 scored · 1.4 conceded (last 5)
Nacional
L L W D W
avg 1.6 scored · 1.2 conceded (last 5)
Recent head-to-head
01 Feb 2026 Sporting CP 2–1 Nacional
23 Aug 2025 Nacional 1–4 Sporting CP
25 Jan 2025 Sporting CP 2–0 Nacional
17 Aug 2024 Nacional 1–6 Sporting CP
01 May 2021 Sporting CP 2–0 Nacional

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 1.16
Closing odds 1.11
Prediction CLV +4.5%
Result Won
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint 6825c140febc5038

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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