Romania Liga I

Farul Constanta 3–1 Petrolul Ploiesti

Final score · Half-time 2–1 · All of yesterday's results

The sharp market makes Farul Constanta the most likely outcome at 51% — fair odds of 1.95. 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 — Farul Constanta: LWDDD; Petrolul Ploiesti: WDWWL.

After the whistle

Goals and cards

  1. 5' Cristian Ganea · goal · assist Ionuț Vână · Farul Constanta
  2. 22' Matteo Ahlinvi · goal · assist Eduard Radaslavescu · Farul Constanta
  3. 33' Alejandro Bran · goal · assist Teixeira leo · Petrolul Ploiesti
  4. 51' Victor Dican · yellow card · Farul Constanta
  5. 70' Dele Ola · yellow card · Petrolul Ploiesti
  6. 89' Răzvan Marincean · goal · assist Razvan Tanasa · Farul Constanta
  7. 89' Andres Dumitrescu · yellow card · Petrolul Ploiesti

Match stats

Match statsFarul ConstantaPetrolul Ploiesti
Possession %4060
Expected goals (xG)1.141.03
Shots1616
Shots on target86
Corners65
Yellow cards12
Red cards00
Fouls613
Offsides02
Goalkeeper saves56

What the market said before kick-off

  • Farul Constanta win 52% happened
  • Draw 25% did not happen
  • Petrolul Ploiesti win 23% did not happen
  • Over 2.5 goals 54% happened

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: Horatiu Fesnic · Venue: Stadionul Viitorul, Ovidiu

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

Starting line-ups

Farul Constanta 3-4-3

  1. R. Munteanu GK
  2. S. Bouzamoucha DF
  3. I. Larie DF
  4. V. Dican DF
  5. I. Vînă MF
  6. T. Njiké MF
  7. M. Ahlinvi MF
  8. C. Ganea MF
  9. E. Sylvestre FW
  10. M. Hyseni FW
  11. E. Rădăslăvescu FW

Regular starters not in the XI

  • Cristian Sima — not in the starting XI (started 4 of the last 5)
  • Denis Alibec — not in the starting XI (started 4 of the last 5)
  • Gustavo Marins — not in the starting XI (started 4 of the last 5)

Petrolul Ploiesti 4-4-2

  1. L. Zima GK
  2. M. Țuțu DF
  3. P. Papp DF
  4. B. Malula DF
  5. A. Dumitrescu DF
  6. Léo Teixeira MF
  7. L. Vega MF
  8. S. Hanca MF
  9. Rodrigo Martins MF
  10. D. Nlundulu FW
  11. A. Bran FW

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): 52 / 25 / 23% when the line-ups came out, 52 / 25 / 23% 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 76%

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

1X2
Sharp, recorded51%25%24%
Other estimates
Our model39%28%33%

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) 1.31
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 1.87 / 3.71 / 3.85
Market Gap —
Confidence —
Prediction result Won · 1

Match context

The last 5 head-to-head meetings we tracked split 5–0–0 (Farul Constanta wins – draws – Petrolul Ploiesti wins).

Farul Constanta scored 1 and conceded 1.4 across their last 5 matches in our results database; Petrolul Ploiesti scored 1.8 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?

Farul Constanta
L W D D D
avg 1 scored · 1.4 conceded (last 5)
Petrolul Ploiesti
W D W W L
avg 1.8 scored · 1.2 conceded (last 5)
Recent head-to-head
15 Mar 2026 Farul Constanta 2–0 Petrolul Ploiesti
25 Jan 2026 Petrolul Ploiesti 0–1 Farul Constanta
01 Sep 2025 Farul Constanta 2–1 Petrolul Ploiesti
28 Apr 2025 Petrolul Ploiesti 0–1 Farul Constanta
03 Feb 2025 Farul Constanta 2–1 Petrolul Ploiesti

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 1.24
Closing odds 1.25
Prediction CLV -0.3%
Result Won
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint 2f576130cc10f886

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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