Bulgaria First League

CSKA 1948 2–3 CSKA Sofia

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

The sharp market makes CSKA Sofia 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 — CSKA 1948: WWLWL; CSKA Sofia: DWWDW.

After the whistle

Goals and cards

  1. 19' Bruno Jordão · goal · assist Stefano Sensi · CSKA Sofia
  2. 28' Hector Cuellar · yellow card · CSKA 1948
  3. 28' Ioannis Pittas · goal · assist Leonardo Augusto dos Santos Pereira · CSKA Sofia
  4. 48' Dragan Grivić · yellow card · CSKA 1948
  5. 56' Elias Correa Franco · goal · CSKA 1948
  6. 56' Fedor·Lapoukhov · yellow card · CSKA Sofia
  7. 63' Elias Correa Franco · yellow card · CSKA 1948
  8. 68' Atanas Iliev · goal · CSKA 1948
  9. 70' Stefano Sensi · yellow card · CSKA Sofia
  10. 73' — · yellow card · CSKA Sofia
  11. 75' Bruno Jordão · yellow card · CSKA Sofia
  12. 90' Bruno Jordão · goal · CSKA Sofia
  13. 90+3' Stefano Sensi · red card · CSKA Sofia

Match stats

Match statsCSKA 1948CSKA Sofia
Possession %3664
Shots1118
Shots on target87
Corners12
Yellow cards34
Red cards01

What the market said before kick-off

  • CSKA 1948 win 23% did not happen
  • Draw 27% did not happen
  • CSKA Sofia win 50% happened
  • Over 2.5 goals 49% 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: Lyuboslav Lyubomirov · Venue: Bistritsa Stadium, Bistritsa

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

Starting line-ups

CSKA 1948 4-2-3-1

  1. 31 A. Bozhev GK
  2. 6 Emerson DF
  3. 3 L. Dvali DF
  4. 4 A. Hoffmann DF
  5. 96 D. Grivić DF
  6. 8 M. Zemzemi MF
  7. 33 H. Cuellar DF
  8. 11 G. Rusev FW
  9. 30 J. Meyer MF
  10. 77 Elias Franco FW
  11. 93 M. Diallo FW

Bench: Berna, A. Iliev, K. Iliev, F. Krebs, P. Marinov, K. Strinski, danilo terasenko, B. Tsonev, P. Vitanov

Coach: Ognyan Mladenov

Regular starters not in the XI

  • Diego Medina — not in the squad (started 5 of the last 5)
  • Frédéric Maciel — not in the squad (started 5 of the last 5)

CSKA Sofia 4-4-2

  1. 21 F. Lapoukhov GK
  2. 2 Pastor DF
  3. 14 T. Ivanov DF
  4. 32 Facundo Santiago Rodríguez DF
  5. 17 Á. Martino DF
  6. 7 M. Ebong MF
  7. 6 Bruno Jordão MF
  8. 8 S. Sensi MF
  9. 38 Léo Pereira FW
  10. 10 J. Zwarts FW
  11. 28 I. Pittas FW

Bench: M. Brahimi, Dinis Almeida, B. Cotter, J. Eto'o, D. Evtimov, S. Godoy, C. Itu, P. Panayotov, I. Solet Bomawoko, A. Tunchev, A. Yordanov

Coach: Markus Gisdol

Regular starters not in the XI

  • Jean-Philippe Gbamin — not in the squad (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.

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

X/2 Draw or away 78%

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

1X2
Sharp, recorded22%27%51%
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) 1.28
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 4.14 / 3.40 / 1.87
Market Gap —
Confidence —
Prediction result Won · 2

Match context

The last 5 head-to-head meetings we tracked split 1–2–2 (CSKA 1948 wins – draws – CSKA Sofia wins).

CSKA 1948 scored 1.2 and conceded 0.8 across their last 5 matches in our results database; CSKA Sofia scored 2.2 and conceded 0.8 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

CSKA 1948 has won its last 2 matches.
No value Already reflected in the fair price — no value on CSKA 1948 here.
CSKA Sofia is unbeaten in its last 5 matches.
No value Already reflected in the fair price — no value on CSKA Sofia 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?

CSKA 1948
W W L W L
avg 1.2 scored · 0.8 conceded (last 5)
CSKA Sofia
D W W D W
avg 2.2 scored · 0.8 conceded (last 5)
Recent head-to-head
13 May 2026 CSKA Sofia 1–1 CSKA 1948
08 May 2026 CSKA 1948 0–1 CSKA Sofia
14 Feb 2026 CSKA 1948 0–2 CSKA Sofia
24 Aug 2025 CSKA Sofia 0–1 CSKA 1948
07 Dec 2024 CSKA Sofia 2–2 CSKA 1948

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 X/2 · Draw or away
Odds recorded for the prediction 1.21
Closing odds 1.24
Prediction CLV -2.7%
Result Won
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint 836cf77ec939bb05

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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