Championship

Watford 0–4 Burnley

Final score · Half-time 0–3 · All of yesterday's results

The sharp market makes Burnley the most likely outcome at 42% — fair odds of 2.37. LeoVegas (SE) offers 2.40, a market gap of +1.2% above the fair price, which is where we flag value (Micro-edge). Confidence is Medium and model agreement is Medium. Recent form — Watford: LLWLL; Burnley: DLDLD.

After the whistle

Goals and cards

  1. 13' Jacob Bruun Larsen · goal · assist Reo Hatate · Burnley
  2. 19' Zeki Amdouni · goal · Burnley
  3. 25' Reo Hatate · goal · assist Lucas Pires Silva · Burnley
  4. 87' Marcus Edwards · goal · assist Lucas Pires Silva · Burnley

Match stats

Match statsWatfordBurnley
Possession %5248
Expected goals (xG)0.641.86
Shots1417
Shots on target68
Corners62
Yellow cards00
Red cards00
Fouls810
Offsides25
Goalkeeper saves46

What the market said before kick-off

  • Watford win 31% did not happen
  • Draw 26% did not happen
  • Burnley win 42% happened
  • Over 2.5 goals 55% happened
  • Both teams score 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: Andrew Madley · Venue: Vicarage Road, Watford

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

Starting line-ups

Watford 4-2-3-1

  1. F. Ravaglia GK
  2. O. Traoré DF
  3. M. Pollock DF
  4. S. Coulibaly DF
  5. Branimir Mlačić DF
  6. E. Kayembe MF
  7. H. Kyprianou MF
  8. M. Doumbia MF
  9. Iker Bravo MF
  10. Amin Nabizada MF
  11. L. Kjerrumgaard FW

Regular starters not in the XI

  • K. Keben — not in the starting XI (started 5 of the last 5)

Burnley 4-2-3-1

  1. G. Coudert GK
  2. K. Walker DF
  3. A. Ahmedhodžić DF
  4. Igor DF
  5. Lucas Pires DF
  6. J. Laurent MF
  7. Max Alleyne MF
  8. J. Bruun Larsen MF
  9. R. Hatate MF
  10. L. Ramazani MF
  11. Z. Amdouni FW

Regular starters not in the XI

  • C. Roberts — not in the starting XI (started 4 of the last 5)
  • M. Weiß — not in the starting XI (started 4 of the last 5)
  • A. Ramsey — 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): 31 / 26 / 42% when the line-ups came out, 31 / 26 / 42% 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 Burnley @ 2.40
Bookmaker LeoVegas (SE)
Price observed
Flag recorded @ 2.40 (LeoVegas (SE)) · recorded live, before kick-off
Market 1X2 (match result)
Availability and exact price varied by country and over time.
Fair price 2.37
LeoVegas (SE) 2.40
Confidence: Medium
Value-bet result Won · 2 +1.40u

Market discrepancy: before kick-off, Burnley (2) was priced at 2.40 by a soft bookmaker, above the fair price of 2.37 — a +1.2% 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

1/2 Home or away 74%

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

1X2
Sharp, recorded32%26%42%
Other estimates
Our model37%28%35%

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) 1.34
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 2.95 / 3.67 / 2.28
Market Gap +1.2%
Confidence Medium
Model agreement Medium

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 · 2

Value lifecycle Settled

Detected ·
2 Burnley · soft 2.40 (LeoVegas (SE)) · fair 2.37 · edge +1.2%
Opening sharp
2.31
At close
2.36 · CLV +1.6%
Result
Won +1.40u 🔒 Recorded live before kick-off

“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 4 head-to-head meetings we tracked split 0–1–3 (Watford wins – draws – Burnley wins).

Watford scored 0.6 and conceded 1.4 across their last 5 matches in our results database; Burnley scored 1 and conceded 1.6 in 5.

The sharp market price on Burnley has barely moved since opening (2.31 to 2.36) — 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

Watford has lost its last 2 matches.
No value Already reflected in the fair price — no value on Watford here.
Burnley is winless in its last 5 matches.
No value Already reflected in the fair price — no value on Burnley 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?

Watford
L L W L L
avg 0.6 scored · 1.4 conceded (last 5)
Burnley
D L D L D
avg 1 scored · 1.6 conceded (last 5)
Recent head-to-head
18 Apr 2025 Watford 1–2 Burnley
21 Dec 2024 Burnley 2–1 Watford
30 Apr 2022 Watford 1–2 Burnley
05 Feb 2022 Burnley 0–0 Watford

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 1/2 · Home or away
Odds recorded for the prediction 1.29
Closing odds 1.32
Prediction CLV -2.3%
Result Won
Value-bet record

Recorded when the site showed it, before kick-off. Its seal is in our public export once this match’s row is published, and in the next daily external snapshot (07:40 Bucharest time: 04:40 UTC in summer time, 05:40 UTC in winter); for flags recorded on match day that snapshot comes after kick-off, so the pre-kick-off proof is our own timestamp.

Value selection 2 · Burnley
Odds when flagged 2.40
Fair odds 2.37
Closing odds 2.36
Value CLV +1.6%
Profit (units) +1.40
Result Won
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint e53732ec0e340e26

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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