Romania Liga I

FC Botosani 2–0 Uta Arad

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

The sharp market makes FC Botosani the most likely outcome at 41% — fair odds of 2.42. 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 — FC Botosani: LDWDW; Uta Arad: WLWWD.

After the whistle

Goals and cards

  1. 11' Sebastian Mailat (pen.) · FC Botosani
  2. 17' Lucas de Vega Lima · goal · FC Botosani
  3. 25' Denis Alberto Taroi · yellow card · Uta Arad
  4. 45+8' Andrei Dumiter · disallowed by VAR · FC Botosani
  5. 56' Lucas de Vega Lima · yellow card · FC Botosani
  6. 65' Sota Mino · yellow card · Uta Arad
  7. 69' Alexandru Benga · yellow card · Uta Arad
  8. 81' Ştefan Bodişteanu · yellow card · FC Botosani
  9. 90+1' Dmitro Pospelov · yellow card · Uta Arad

Match stats

Match statsFC BotosaniUta Arad
Possession %5446
Expected goals (xG)4.110.70
Shots2012
Shots on target93
Corners79
Yellow cards24
Red cards00
Fouls920
Offsides20
Goalkeeper saves36

What the market said before kick-off

  • FC Botosani win 40% happened
  • Draw 27% did not happen
  • Uta Arad win 33% did not happen
  • Over 2.5 goals 51% 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: Szabolcs Kovacs · Venue: Stadionul Municipal, Sfântu Gheorghe

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

Starting line-ups

FC Botosani 4-3-3

  1. G. Anestis GK
  2. B. Bayeye DF
  3. D. Diaw DF
  4. A. Miron DF
  5. N. Ilaș DF
  6. Lucas de Vega MF
  7. E. Papa MF
  8. H. Ongenda MF
  9. Z. Mitrov FW
  10. A. Dumiter FW
  11. S. Mailat FW

Regular starters not in the XI

  • Charles Petro — not in the starting XI (started 5 of the last 5)
  • Mamadou Diarra — not in the starting XI (started 4 of the last 5)

Uta Arad 4-2-3-1

  1. Márcio Rosa GK
  2. S. Gueulette DF
  3. A. Benga DF
  4. R. Bădescu DF
  5. S. Alomeroviс DF
  6. A. Ivanov MF
  7. S. Mino MF
  8. H. Abdallah MF
  9. A. Roman MF
  10. Denis Taroi MF
  11. M. Coman FW

Regular starters not in the XI

  • Andrei Dorobanțu — not in the starting XI (started 5 of the last 5)
  • Peter Ouaneh — not in the starting XI (started 5 of the last 5)
  • Jayson Papeau — 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): 40 / 27 / 33% when the line-ups came out, 40 / 27 / 33% 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

1/2 Home or away 75%

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

1X2
Sharp, recorded41%25%34%
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) 1.33
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 2.31 / 3.71 / 2.79
Market Gap —
Confidence —
Prediction result Won · 1

Match context

The last 5 head-to-head meetings we tracked split 1–0–4 (FC Botosani wins – draws – Uta Arad wins).

FC Botosani scored 1.6 and conceded 0.8 across their last 5 matches in our results database; Uta Arad scored 2.2 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.

Market-relevant trends

Uta Arad is averaging 2.2 goals scored over its last 5 matches.
No value Already reflected in the fair price — no value on Uta Arad 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?

FC Botosani
L D W D W
avg 1.6 scored · 0.8 conceded (last 5)
Uta Arad
W L W W D
avg 2.2 scored · 1.2 conceded (last 5)
Recent head-to-head
11 Apr 2026 Uta Arad 3–1 FC Botosani
15 Feb 2026 Uta Arad 2–1 FC Botosani
06 Oct 2025 FC Botosani 2–1 Uta Arad
05 Apr 2025 Uta Arad 1–0 FC Botosani
23 Dec 2024 Uta Arad 2–0 FC Botosani

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 1.26
Closing odds 1.32
Prediction CLV -4.0%
Result Won
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint 14f9f622592bbc6b

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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