Primeira Liga

Santa Clara 0–0 SC Braga

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

Our backtest says that, with the sharp market making SC Braga the most likely outcome at 46% (fair odds 2.17), Betfair offered 2.18, a gap of +0.6% above the fair price (Micro-edge). This was reconstructed on 26 September 2026, not recorded at the time. Recent form — Santa Clara: WWDWW; SC Braga: WLWWD.

After the whistle

Match stats

Match statsSanta ClaraSC Braga
Possession %4852
Expected goals (xG)1.040.50
Shots108
Shots on target11
Corners55
Yellow cards43
Red cards00
Fouls1313
Offsides22
Goalkeeper saves11
Pass accuracy %7579

What the market said before kick-off

  • Santa Clara win 27% did not happen
  • Draw 30% happened
  • SC Braga win 43% did not happen
  • Over 2.5 goals 38% 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: Fabio Jose Costa Verissimo, Portugal · Venue: Estádio de São Miguel, Ponta Delgada

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

Starting line-ups

Santa Clara 4-3-3

  1. Lucas França GK
  2. Lucas Soares DF
  3. Pedro Pacheco DF
  4. Emanuel Fernandes DF
  5. Guilherme Romão DF
  6. José Luís Rocha Tavares MF
  7. Pedro Ferreira MF
  8. Tiago Ribeiro MF
  9. Vinícius Lopes FW
  10. Gonçalo Paciência FW
  11. Brenner Lucas Gonçalves Santos FW

SC Braga 3-4-3

  1. Bernardo Fontes GK
  2. A. Barišić DF
  3. Vitor Carvalho DF
  4. A. Bajrami DF
  5. Víctor Gómez MF
  6. João Moutinho MF
  7. J. Gorby MF
  8. Gabri Martínez MF
  9. Pau Victor FW
  10. J. Milošević FW
  11. Ricardo Horta FW

Regular starters not in the XI

  • Gustaf Lagerbielke — not in the starting XI (started 5 of the last 5)
  • Demir Ege Tıknaz — not in the starting XI (started 5 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): 26 / 31 / 43% when the line-ups came out, 27 / 30 / 43% 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

2 SC Braga @ 2.18
Bookmaker Betfair
Price observed
Rule would have fired (backtest) @ 2.18 (Betfair) · backtest — reconstructed afterwards
Market 1X2 (match result)
Availability and exact price varied by country and over time.
Fair price 2.17
Betfair 2.18
Confidence: Medium
Value-bet result Lost · 2 -1.00u

Market discrepancy: before kick-off, SC Braga (2) was priced at 2.18 by a soft bookmaker, above the fair price of 2.17 — a +0.6% 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

X/2 Draw or away 75%

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

1X2
Sharp, recorded25%29%46%
Other estimates
Our model25%27%49%

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) 1.33
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 3.70 / 3.21 / 2.08
Market Gap +0.6%
Confidence Medium
Model agreement High

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 · X

Value lifecycle Settled

Would have been flagged (backtest) ·
2 SC Braga · soft 2.18 (Betfair) · fair 2.17 · edge +0.6%
Opening sharp
2.08
At close
2.32 · CLV -6.0%
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

The last 5 head-to-head meetings we tracked split 1–1–3 (Santa Clara wins – draws – SC Braga wins).

Santa Clara scored 1.8 and conceded 0.4 across their last 5 matches in our results database; SC Braga scored 1 and conceded 0.6 in 5.

Since opening around 2.08, the sharp market price on SC Braga has drifted to 2.32 — 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

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

Santa Clara
W W D W W
avg 1.8 scored · 0.4 conceded (last 5)
SC Braga
W L W W D
avg 1 scored · 0.6 conceded (last 5)
Recent head-to-head
26 Apr 2026 Santa Clara 2–1 SC Braga
15 Dec 2025 SC Braga 1–0 Santa Clara
03 May 2025 SC Braga 1–1 Santa Clara
22 Dec 2024 Santa Clara 0–2 SC Braga
14 May 2023 SC Braga 5–3 Santa Clara

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 X/2 · Draw or away
Odds recorded for the prediction 1.26
Closing odds 1.32
Prediction CLV -4.5%
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 2 · SC Braga
Odds when the rule would have fired (reconstructed) 2.18
Fair odds 2.17
Closing odds 2.32
Value CLV -6.0%
Profit (units) -1.00
Result Lost
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint be61506d886311ea

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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