MLS

Minnesota United FC 2–3 Los Angeles Galaxy

Final score · Half-time 2–1 · Latest results

Our backtest says that, with the sharp market making Minnesota United FC the most likely outcome at 59% (fair odds 1.70), Betano offered 1.72, a gap of +1.1% above the fair price (Micro-edge). This was reconstructed on 26 September 2026, not recorded at the time. Recent form — Minnesota United FC: LLLDW; Los Angeles Galaxy: DLWLD.

After the whistle

Match stats

Match statsMinnesota United FCLos Angeles Galaxy
Possession %4456
Expected goals (xG)1.881.59
Shots1516
Shots on target55
Corners58
Yellow cards11
Red cards00
Fouls138
Offsides12
Goalkeeper saves23
Pass accuracy %8083

What the market said before kick-off

  • Minnesota United FC win 59% did not happen
  • Draw 21% did not happen
  • Los Angeles Galaxy win 21% happened
  • Backtest flag (reconstructed afterwards, not recorded at the time): 1 · Minnesota United FC @ 1.72 (Betano) Lost

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: S. Demianchuk · Venue: Allianz Field, Saint Paul

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

Starting line-ups

Minnesota United FC 3-4-1-2

  1. Drake Callender GK
  2. Carlos Harvey DF
  3. Morris Duggan DF
  4. Nicolás Romero DF
  5. Kyle Duncan MF
  6. Owen Gene MF
  7. Wil Trapp MF
  8. Anthony Markanich MF
  9. Joaquín Pereyra FW
  10. Marcus Caldeira FW
  11. Kelvin Yeboah FW

Regular starters not in the XI

  • Michael Boxall — not in the starting XI (started 5 of the last 5)
  • Jefferson Díaz — not in the starting XI (started 4 of the last 5)

Los Angeles Galaxy 4-3-3

  1. JT Marcinkowski GK
  2. Calegari DF
  3. Jakob Glesnes DF
  4. Justin Haak DF
  5. Julián Aude DF
  6. Robert Taylor MF
  7. Pablo Ruíz MF
  8. Erik Thommy MF
  9. Harbor Miller FW
  10. Kyogo Furuhashi FW
  11. Hirving Lozano FW

Regular starters not in the XI

  • Marco Reus — 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): 59 / 21 / 21% when the line-ups came out, 59 / 21 / 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 Minnesota United FC @ 1.72
Bookmaker Betano
Price observed
Rule would have fired (backtest) @ 1.72 (Betano) · backtest — reconstructed afterwards
Market 1X2 (match result)
Availability and exact price varied by country and over time.
Fair price 1.70
Betano 1.72
Market Gap +1.1%
Value flag result Lost · 1 -1.00u

Market discrepancy: before kick-off, Minnesota United FC (1) was priced at 1.72 by a soft bookmaker, above the fair price of 1.70 — a +1.1% 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 58% · as recorded
1X2
Sharp, recorded58%20%21%
Other estimates
Our model48%26%26%

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) 1.71
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 1.66 / 4.51 / 4.31
Pick result (single or double chance) Lost · 2

Value lifecycle Settled

Would have been flagged (backtest) ·
1 Minnesota United FC · soft 1.72 (Betano) · fair 1.70 · edge +1.1%
Opening sharp
1.66
At close
1.70 · CLV +1.1%
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

Minnesota United FC averaged 3.0 goals scored and 3.0 conceded per game over their last 5 matches in our results database; Los Angeles Galaxy averaged 1.2 and 2.0 over 5.

The sharp market price on Minnesota United FC has barely moved since opening (1.66 to 1.70) — 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.

Market-relevant trends

Minnesota United FC has lost its last 3 matches.
No value Already reflected in the fair price — no value on Minnesota United FC 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?

Minnesota United FC
L L L D W
avg 3 scored · 3 conceded (last 5)
Los Angeles Galaxy
D L W L D
avg 1.2 scored · 2 conceded (last 5)

Form: most recent match first.

Recent head-to-head
05 Apr 2026 Los Angeles Galaxy 1–2 Minnesota United FC
19 Oct 2025 Los Angeles Galaxy 2–1 Minnesota United FC
22 Mar 2025 Minnesota United FC 2–2 Los Angeles Galaxy

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 1.66
Pinnacle closing odds (with margin) 1.67
Prediction CLV -0.6%
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 · Minnesota United FC
Odds when the rule would have fired (reconstructed) 1.72
Fair odds 1.70
Fair closing odds (Pinnacle, margin removed) 1.70
Value CLV +1.1%
Profit (units) -1.00
Result Lost
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint fcfe993b84435c76

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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