Bulgaria First League

Botev Plovdiv 1–0 Slavia Sofia

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

The sharp market makes Botev Plovdiv the most likely outcome at 58% — fair odds of 1.74. 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 — Botev Plovdiv: WWWLL; Slavia Sofia: LDWLD.

After the whistle

Goals and cards

  1. 34' Vladimir Miletic · yellow card · Slavia Sofia
  2. 46' alberto tajero saido · goal · assist Mauro Rodrigues · Botev Plovdiv
  3. 62' Emil Stoev · yellow card · Slavia Sofia
  4. 67' Nikola Soldo · yellow card · Botev Plovdiv
  5. 84' Vladimir Mendes · yellow card · Botev Plovdiv
  6. 88' Dimitar Burov · yellow card · Slavia Sofia
  7. 90+2' yoan bornosuzov · yellow card · Slavia Sofia

Match stats

Match statsBotev PlovdivSlavia Sofia
Possession %5842
Shots103
Shots on target40
Corners62
Yellow cards24
Red cards00

What the market said before kick-off

  • Botev Plovdiv win 64% happened
  • Draw 22% did not happen
  • Slavia Sofia win 14% 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: Nikola Popov · Venue: Hristo Botev Stadium, Plovdiv

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

Starting line-ups

Botev Plovdiv

  1. D. Naumov GK
  2. V. Vidolov MF
  3. N. Soldo DF
  4. Alberto Salido MF
  5. Mauro Rodrigues FW
  6. S. Petrov DF
  7. V. Mendes DF
  8. Lucas Araújo MF
  9. S. Kalu FW
  10. B. Hein DF
  11. A. Chandarov MF

Regular starters not in the XI

  • Carlos Meotti — not in the starting XI (started 4 of the last 5)

Slavia Sofia

  1. D. Burov DF
  2. D. Ferraresso DF
  3. Vasil Kazaldzhiev FW
  4. L. Marin DF
  5. V. Miletić MF
  6. I. Minchev MF
  7. V. Nikolov MF
  8. N. Savić DF
  9. E. Stoev FW
  10. K. Stoyanov DF
  11. I. Andonov GK

Regular starters not in the XI

  • Jordan Semedo Varela — not in the starting XI (started 5 of the last 5)
  • David Malembana — not in the starting XI (started 5 of the last 5)
  • Roberto Raychev — 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): 64 / 22 / 14% when the line-ups came out, 64 / 22 / 14% 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 58%
1X2
Sharp, recorded58%25%17%
Other estimates
Our model47%27%25%

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) 1.74
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 1.67 / 3.59 / 5.11
Market Gap —
Confidence —
Prediction result Won · 1

Match context

The last 4 head-to-head meetings we tracked split 2–1–1 (Botev Plovdiv wins – draws – Slavia Sofia wins).

Botev Plovdiv scored 1.8 and conceded 1.2 across their last 5 matches in our results database; Slavia Sofia scored 0.8 and conceded 1 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

Botev Plovdiv has won its last 3 matches.
No value Already reflected in the fair price — no value on Botev Plovdiv 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?

Botev Plovdiv
W W W L L
avg 1.8 scored · 1.2 conceded (last 5)
Slavia Sofia
L D W L D
avg 0.8 scored · 1 conceded (last 5)
Recent head-to-head
20 Mar 2026 Slavia Sofia 0–1 Botev Plovdiv
18 Oct 2025 Botev Plovdiv 1–1 Slavia Sofia
03 Mar 2025 Slavia Sofia 3–2 Botev Plovdiv
19 Oct 2024 Botev Plovdiv 1–0 Slavia 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 · Home win
Odds recorded for the prediction 1.67
Closing odds 1.52
Prediction CLV +9.9%
Result Won
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint ef4d52747e53d7f4

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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