China Super League

Shandong Luneng 1–1 Sichuan Jiuniu

Final score · Half-time 1–0 · Latest results

Our backtest says that, with the sharp market making Shandong Luneng the most likely outcome at 63% (fair odds 1.60), Unibet (SE) offered 1.61, a gap of +0.7% above the fair price (Micro-edge). This was reconstructed on 26 September 2026, not recorded at the time. Recent form — Shandong Luneng: WLWWW; Sichuan Jiuniu: LDWLW.

After the whistle

Match stats

Match statsShandong LunengSichuan Jiuniu
Possession %3862
Shots729
Shots on target18
Corners22
Yellow cards03
Red cards10
Fouls715
Offsides30
Goalkeeper saves70
Pass accuracy %7691

What the market said before kick-off

  • Shandong Luneng win 65% did not happen
  • Draw 19% happened
  • Sichuan Jiuniu win 15% did not happen
  • Backtest flag (reconstructed afterwards, not recorded at the time): 1 · Shandong Luneng @ 1.61 (Unibet (SE)) Lost

CLV +5.2% 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: Memetjan Ahmat, China · Venue: Jinan Olympic Sports Center, Jinan

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

Starting line-ups

Shandong Luneng 3-4-3

  1. Yu Jinyong GK
  2. Gao Zhunyi DF
  3. Pedro Álvaro DF
  4. Liu Yang DF
  5. Maiwulang Mijiti MF
  6. Li Yuanyi MF
  7. Guilherme Madruga MF
  8. Chen Pu FW
  9. Xie Wenneng FW
  10. Cryzan FW
  11. V. Qazaishvili FW

Sichuan Jiuniu 4-4-2

  1. Peng Peng GK
  2. Yang Yiming DF
  3. Yu Rui DF
  4. Gabriel Xavier DF
  5. Xuan Zhijian DF
  6. Chow Tim MF
  7. Tang Miao DF
  8. E. Kartsev MF
  9. Yao Junsheng MF
  10. Dai Wai-tsun MF
  11. A. Ademi FW

Pinnacle, margin removed (home / draw / away): 65 / 19 / 16% when the line-ups came out, 65 / 19 / 15% 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 Shandong Luneng @ 1.61
Bookmaker Unibet (SE)
Price observed
Rule would have fired (backtest) @ 1.61 (Unibet (SE)) · backtest — reconstructed afterwards
Market 1X2 (match result)
Availability and exact price varied by country and over time.
Fair price 1.60
Unibet (SE) 1.61
Market Gap +0.7%
Value flag result Lost · 1 -1.00u

Market discrepancy: before kick-off, Shandong Luneng (1) was priced at 1.61 by a soft bookmaker, above the fair price of 1.60 — a +0.7% 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.

Most likely result

1 Home win 63% · as recorded
1X2
Sharp, recorded63%20%18%
Other estimates
Our model59%24%17%

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) 1.60
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 1.55 / 4.54 / 5.06
Pick result (single or double chance) Lost · X

Value lifecycle Settled

Would have been flagged (backtest) ·
1 Shandong Luneng · soft 1.61 (Unibet (SE)) · fair 1.60 · edge +0.7%
Opening sharp
1.55
At close
1.53 · CLV +5.2%
Result
Lost -1.00u 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

Shandong Luneng averaged 1.8 goals scored and 1.2 conceded per game over their last 5 matches in our results database; Sichuan Jiuniu averaged 1.0 and 1.4 over 5.

The sharp market price on Shandong Luneng has barely moved since opening (1.55 to 1.53) — no significant new information has repriced this match.

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

Why this price?

Shandong Luneng
W L W W W
avg 1.8 scored · 1.2 conceded (last 5)
Sichuan Jiuniu
L D W L W
avg 1 scored · 1.4 conceded (last 5)

Form: most recent match first.

Recent head-to-head
10 May 2026 Sichuan Jiuniu 1–2 Shandong Luneng

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 1.55
Pinnacle closing odds (with margin) 1.50
Prediction CLV +3.3%
Result Lost
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 · Shandong Luneng
Odds when the rule would have fired (reconstructed) 1.61
Fair odds 1.60
Fair closing odds (Pinnacle, margin removed) 1.53
Value CLV +5.2%
Profit (units) -1.00
Result Lost
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint 855d6c4bac54237d

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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