Romania Liga I

FCSB 1–0 Oţelul

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

The sharp market makes FCSB the most likely outcome at 63% — fair odds of 1.58. 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 — FCSB: LDLLL; Oţelul: LLLDW.

After the whistle

Goals and cards

  1. 3' Habib Sylla · yellow card · Oţelul
  2. 14' Ofri Arad · yellow card · FCSB
  3. 45' Valentin Crețu · yellow card · FCSB
  4. 47' Denis Bordun · yellow card · Oţelul
  5. 54' Habib Sylla · red card · Oţelul
  6. 59' Giannis Christopoulos · yellow card · Oţelul
  7. 65' Alexandru Stoian · goal · assist Valentin Crețu · FCSB

Match stats

Match statsFCSBOţelul
Possession %6634
Expected goals (xG)1.390.64
Shots2110
Shots on target41
Corners63
Yellow cards23
Red cards01
Fouls1212
Offsides40
Goalkeeper saves13

What the market said before kick-off

  • FCSB win 68% happened
  • Draw 19% did not happen
  • Oţelul win 13% did not happen
  • Over 2.5 goals 58% 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: George Catalin Roman · Venue: Arena Națională, Bucharest

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

Starting line-ups

FCSB 4-2-3-1

  1. Ș. Târnovanu GK
  2. V. Crețu DF
  3. J. Dawa DF
  4. André Duarte DF
  5. Ricardo Padurariu DF
  6. K. Muhar MF
  7. O. Arad MF
  8. D. Miculescu MF
  9. J. Cisotti MF
  10. M. Korenica MF
  11. A. Garita FW

Regular starters not in the XI

  • Dylan Batubinsika — not in the starting XI (started 4 of the last 5)

Oţelul 4-3-3

  1. C. Dur-Bozoancă GK
  2. H. Sylla DF
  3. G. Christopoulos DF
  4. P. Iacob DF
  5. Miguel Silva DF
  6. A. Ciobanu MF
  7. Rafael Brito MF
  8. Pedro Nuno MF
  9. D. Bordun FW
  10. Zé Turbo FW
  11. Patrick FW

Regular starters not in the XI

  • Andrézinho — 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): 68 / 19 / 13% when the line-ups came out, 68 / 19 / 13% 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 Home win 63%
1X2
Sharp, recorded63%21%16%
Other estimates
Our model48%25%27%

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) 1.58
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 1.53 / 4.31 / 5.43
Market Gap —
Confidence —
Prediction result Won · 1

Match context

The last 5 head-to-head meetings we tracked split 4–0–1 (FCSB wins – draws – Oţelul wins).

FCSB scored 0.8 and conceded 2.6 across their last 5 matches in our results database; Oţelul scored 1 and conceded 1.8 in 5.

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

Market-relevant trends

FCSB is winless in its last 5 matches.
No value Already reflected in the fair price — no value on FCSB here.
Oţelul has lost its last 3 matches.
No value Already reflected in the fair price — no value on Oţelul 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?

FCSB
L D L L L
avg 0.8 scored · 2.6 conceded (last 5)
Oţelul
L L L D W
avg 1 scored · 1.8 conceded (last 5)
Recent head-to-head
11 Apr 2026 FCSB 4–0 Oţelul
08 Feb 2026 Oţelul 1–4 FCSB
28 Sep 2025 FCSB 1–0 Oţelul
02 Dec 2024 Oţelul 1–4 FCSB
26 Jul 2024 FCSB 0–2 Oţelul

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 1.53
Closing odds 1.44
Prediction CLV +6.2%
Result Won
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint 57ba964c947061ee

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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