Segunda Division

Almeria 2–0 Celta de Vigo II

Final score · Half-time 2–0 · All of yesterday's results

Our backtest says that, with the sharp market making Almeria the most likely outcome at 71% (fair odds 1.41), Matchbook offered 1.42, 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 — Almeria: WWLLW; Celta de Vigo II: LWLWD.

After the whistle

Match stats

Match statsAlmeriaCelta de Vigo II
Possession %5149
Expected goals (xG)2.400.65
Shots1612
Shots on target61
Corners25
Yellow cards01
Red cards00
Fouls146
Offsides24
Goalkeeper saves14
Pass accuracy %8688

What the market said before kick-off

  • Almeria win 69% happened
  • Draw 19% did not happen
  • Celta de Vigo II win 12% did not happen
  • Over 2.5 goals 60% 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: Rafael Sanchez Lopez, Spain · Venue: UD Almería Stadium, Almeria

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

Starting line-ups

Almeria 4-2-3-1

  1. Andrés Fernández GK
  2. Marcos Luna DF
  3. Chumi DF
  4. F. Bonini DF
  5. Álex Muñoz DF
  6. S. Džodić MF
  7. Javi Muñoz MF
  8. Adri Embarba MF
  9. Nico Melamed MF
  10. B. Cipenga MF
  11. Miguel de la Fuente FW

Celta de Vigo II 3-4-3

  1. Coke Carrillo GK
  2. K. Ribes DF
  3. P. Meixus DF
  4. A. Rodriguez DF
  5. G. Miller MF
  6. Adrià Capdevila MF
  7. H. Cuenca MF
  8. Joel López MF
  9. O. Marcos FW
  10. B. Somuah FW
  11. Ángel Arcos FW

Pinnacle, margin removed (home / draw / away): 68 / 19 / 13% when the line-ups came out, 69 / 19 / 12% 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 opportunity before kick-off Micro-edge

1 Almeria @ 1.42
Bookmaker Matchbook
Price observed
Rule would have fired (backtest) @ 1.42 (Matchbook) · backtest — reconstructed afterwards
Market 1X2 (match result)
Availability and exact price varied by country and over time.
Fair price 1.41
Matchbook 1.42
Confidence: High
Value-bet result Won · 1 +0.42u

Market discrepancy: before kick-off, Almeria (1) was priced at 1.42 by a soft bookmaker, above the fair price of 1.41 — 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.

Most likely result

1 Home win 70%
1X2
Sharp, recorded70%18%12%
Other estimates
Our model54%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) 1.42
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 1.39 / 4.99 / 7.37
Market Gap +0.5%
Confidence High
Model agreement Low

Confidence reflects only the sharp probability of the selection: high from 50%, medium from 40%, low below. It says how likely the result is, not how big the price gap is. Model agreement shows how close our own model is to the sharp market on this selection — when it is Low, the market and our model disagree, so treat the flag with more caution.

Prediction result Won · 1

Value lifecycle Settled

Would have been flagged (backtest) ·
1 Almeria · soft 1.42 (Matchbook) · fair 1.41 · edge +0.5%
Opening sharp
1.39
At close
1.45 · CLV -2.3%
Result
Won +0.42u 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

Almeria scored 1.6 and conceded 0.8 across their last 5 matches in our results database; Celta de Vigo II scored 1.4 and conceded 1.6 in 5.

Since opening around 1.39, the sharp market price on Almeria has drifted to 1.45 — 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.

Market-relevant trends

Almeria has won its last 2 matches.
No value Already reflected in the fair price — no value on Almeria 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?

Almeria
W W L L W
avg 1.6 scored · 0.8 conceded (last 5)
Celta de Vigo II
L W L W D
avg 1.4 scored · 1.6 conceded (last 5)

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 1.39
Closing odds 1.43
Prediction CLV -2.8%
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 · Almeria
Odds when the rule would have fired (reconstructed) 1.42
Fair odds 1.41
Closing odds 1.45
Value CLV -2.3%
Profit (units) +0.42
Result Won
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint e75a1fef9a86f837

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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