Bulgaria First League

Lokomotiv Sofia 1–1 Lokomotiv Plovdiv

Final score · Half-time 1–1 · All of yesterday's results

The sharp market makes Lokomotiv Sofia the most likely outcome at 50% — fair odds of 1.99. No soft bookmaker is offering more than that fair price right now, so there is no value here — the honest call is to pass. Recent form — Lokomotiv Sofia: WLDLD; Lokomotiv Plovdiv: DLWLL.

After the whistle

Goals and cards

  1. 7' Ryan Leijten · goal · assist Christ Longville · Lokomotiv Plovdiv
  2. 27' Angel Lyaskov · yellow card · Lokomotiv Sofia
  3. 33' Mohamed Medfai · goal · assist Spas Delev · Lokomotiv Sofia
  4. 53' Christ Longville · yellow card · Lokomotiv Plovdiv
  5. 63' Ivan Yordanov · yellow card · Lokomotiv Sofia
  6. 64' Todor Pavlov · yellow card · Lokomotiv Plovdiv
  7. 72' Kaloyan Kostov · yellow card · Lokomotiv Sofia
  8. 79' Adil Taoui · yellow card · Lokomotiv Sofia
  9. 85' Reyan Daskalov · yellow card · Lokomotiv Sofia

Match stats

Match statsLokomotiv SofiaLokomotiv Plovdiv
Possession %6436
Shots118
Shots on target43
Corners102
Yellow cards52
Red cards00

What the market said before kick-off

  • Lokomotiv Sofia win 46% did not happen
  • Draw 29% happened
  • Lokomotiv Plovdiv win 25% did not happen
  • Over 2.5 goals 42% 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: Piskov·Gero · Venue: Lokomotiv Stadium, Sofia

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

Starting line-ups

Lokomotiv Sofia 4-2-3-1

  1. M. Velichkov GK
  2. Eirô DF
  3. R. Bidounga DF
  4. K. Kostov DF
  5. A. Lyaskov DF
  6. D. Kostadinov MF
  7. K. Stanoev MF
  8. M. Medfai MF
  9. A. Taoui FW
  10. S. Delev FW
  11. A. Aralica FW

Lokomotiv Plovdiv 4-2-3-1

  1. B. Milosavljevic GK
  2. Adrián Cova DF
  3. A. Chindriş DF
  4. brito matheus DF
  5. T. Pavlov MF
  6. I. Ivanov DF
  7. E. Ali DF
  8. Christ Longville FW
  9. J. Iliev MF
  10. R. Leijten MF
  11. junior burban FW

Regular starters not in the XI

  • Lucas Ryan — not in the starting XI (started 5 of the last 5)
  • Parvizdzhon Umarbaev — not in the starting XI (started 5 of the last 5)
  • Sevi Idriz — 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): 47 / 29 / 25% when the line-ups came out, 46 / 29 / 25% 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

No value

No value was flagged for this match: before kick-off, no bookmaker price we saw beat the fair price under our rule.

Most likely result

1/X Home or draw 78%

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

1X2
Sharp, recorded50%27%22%
Other estimates
Our model41%29%30%

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) 1.29
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 1.90 / 3.36 / 4.07
Market Gap —
Confidence —
Prediction result Won · X

Match context

The last 5 head-to-head meetings we tracked split 0–3–2 (Lokomotiv Sofia wins – draws – Lokomotiv Plovdiv wins).

Lokomotiv Sofia scored 1.2 and conceded 1.6 across their last 5 matches in our results database; Lokomotiv Plovdiv scored 0.4 and conceded 1.2 in 5.

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

Why this price?

Lokomotiv Sofia
W L D L D
avg 1.2 scored · 1.6 conceded (last 5)
Lokomotiv Plovdiv
D L W L L
avg 0.4 scored · 1.2 conceded (last 5)
Recent head-to-head
03 Apr 2026 Lokomotiv Plovdiv 1–0 Lokomotiv Sofia
24 Oct 2025 Lokomotiv Sofia 2–2 Lokomotiv Plovdiv
02 May 2025 Lokomotiv Plovdiv 1–1 Lokomotiv Sofia
23 Feb 2025 Lokomotiv Sofia 0–1 Lokomotiv Plovdiv
01 Sep 2024 Lokomotiv Plovdiv 1–1 Lokomotiv Sofia

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/X · Home or draw
Odds recorded for the prediction 1.21
Closing odds 1.28
Prediction CLV -4.8%
Result Won
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint 3456831651bcd110

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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