K League 1

Jeonbuk Motors 2–0 Pohang Steelers

Final score · Half-time 0–0 · Latest results

Our backtest says that, with the sharp market making Jeonbuk Motors the most likely outcome at 53% (fair odds 1.90), Dafabet offered 1.91, a gap of +0.5% above the fair price (Micro-edge). This was reconstructed on 26 September 2026, not recorded at the time. Recent form — Jeonbuk Motors: DDWLL; Pohang Steelers: DWLWL.

After the whistle

Match stats

Match statsJeonbuk MotorsPohang Steelers
Possession %4852
Shots1320
Shots on target58
Corners43
Yellow cards30
Red cards00
Fouls813
Goalkeeper saves83

What the market said before kick-off

  • Jeonbuk Motors win 52% happened
  • Draw 27% did not happen
  • Pohang Steelers win 21% did not happen
  • Backtest flag (reconstructed afterwards, not recorded at the time): 1 · Jeonbuk Motors @ 1.91 (Dafabet) Won

CLV -1.1% vs the fair close. One flag on its own says little; the rule is judged on all of them.

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: Yong-jun Shin, South Korea · Venue: Jeonju World Cup Stadium, Jeonju

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

Starting line-ups

Jeonbuk Motors 4-2-3-1

  1. Song Bum-Keun GK
  2. Kim Tae-Hyun DF
  3. Cho Wi-Je DF
  4. Kim Young-Bin DF
  5. Kim Ha-Jun DF
  6. João Gamboa MF
  7. Lee Yeong-Jae MF
  8. Lee Dong-Jun MF
  9. Lee Seung-Woo MF
  10. Italo MF
  11. Tiago Orobó FW

Regular starters not in the XI

  • Choi Woo-Jin — not in the starting XI (started 5 of the last 5)
  • Kim Jin-Gyu — not in the starting XI (started 5 of the last 5)
  • Kang Sang-Yoon — not in the starting XI (started 5 of the last 5)
  • Kim Tae-Hwan — not in the starting XI (started 4 of the last 5)

Pohang Steelers 4-3-3

  1. Hong Seong-Min GK
  2. Wanderson DF
  3. Jeon Min-Gwang DF
  4. Park Chan-Yong DF
  5. Eo Jeong-Won DF
  6. Kim Dong-Jin MF
  7. Ki Sung-Yueng MF
  8. K. Nishiya MF
  9. Won Ki-Jong FW
  10. Cho Sang-Hyeok FW
  11. Hwang Seo-Woong FW

Regular starters not in the XI

  • Sung-min Hong — not in the starting XI (started 4 of the last 5)

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.

Pinnacle, margin removed (home / draw / away): 52 / 27 / 21% when the line-ups came out, 52 / 27 / 21% 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 Micro-edge

1 Jeonbuk Motors @ 1.91
Bookmaker Dafabet
Price observed
Rule would have fired (backtest) @ 1.91 (Dafabet) · backtest — reconstructed afterwards
Market 1X2 (match result)
Availability and exact price varied by country and over time.
Fair price 1.90
Dafabet 1.91
Market Gap +0.5%
Value flag result Won · 1 +0.91u

Market discrepancy: before kick-off, Jeonbuk Motors (1) was priced at 1.91 by a soft bookmaker, above the fair price of 1.90 — a +0.5% gap. An observation about the price, not an instruction to bet.

The gap was smaller than 1.5% — likely to vanish in rounding, latency or line movement. We logged it for transparency, but it was not a strong signal.

A single result where a bookmaker pays above the fair price — separate from the main prediction below.

Two most likely results

1/X Home or draw 79% · as recorded

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

1X2
Sharp, recorded53%27%21%
Other estimates
Our model53%25%21%

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) 1.26
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 1.84 / 3.52 / 4.46
Pick result (single or double chance) Won · 1

Value lifecycle Settled

Would have been flagged (backtest) ·
1 Jeonbuk Motors · soft 1.91 (Dafabet) · fair 1.90 · edge +0.5%
Opening sharp
1.84
At close
1.93 · CLV -1.1%
Result
Won +0.91u Backtest

“Detected” is the moment the flag was first shown on the site and written to our ledger (recorded live since 26 September 2026). For earlier matches the flag was reconstructed afterwards from the prices we had stored, and the time shown is when the rule would have fired: a backtest, not a live record. When the gap closes, we say so instead of pretending the value is still there.

Match context

Jeonbuk Motors averaged 1.0 goals scored and 1.4 conceded per game over their last 5 matches in our results database; Pohang Steelers averaged 0.8 and 1.4 over 5.

Since opening around 1.84, the sharp market price on Jeonbuk Motors has drifted to 1.93 — the market has moved against this outcome.

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

Why this price?

Jeonbuk Motors
D D W L L
avg 1 scored · 1.4 conceded (last 5)
Pohang Steelers
D W L W L
avg 0.8 scored · 1.4 conceded (last 5)

Form: most recent match first.

Recent head-to-head
25 Jul 2026 Pohang Steelers 0–2 Jeonbuk Motors
26 Apr 2026 Jeonbuk Motors 3–2 Pohang Steelers
22 Nov 2025 Pohang Steelers 0–0 Jeonbuk Motors
24 Aug 2025 Pohang Steelers 3–1 Jeonbuk Motors
19 Jul 2025 Pohang Steelers 2–3 Jeonbuk Motors

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 1.21
Pinnacle closing odds (with margin) 1.23
Prediction CLV -1.8%
Result Won
Value-bet record

Backtest: reconstructed on 26 September 2026 by applying today’s rule to the prices stored before kick-off. It was not shown in this form at the time; its seal was created at the reconstruction, which for matches already played was after the match.

Value selection 1 · Jeonbuk Motors
Odds when the rule would have fired (reconstructed) 1.91
Fair odds 1.90
Fair closing odds (Pinnacle, margin removed) 1.93
Value CLV -1.1%
Profit (units) +0.91
Result Won
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint 594af1d8e86ebafb

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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