Argentina Liga Profesional

Union Santa Fe 0–2 Defensa Y Justicia

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

The sharp market makes Union Santa Fe the most likely outcome at 46% — fair odds of 2.16. 1xBet offers 2.21, a market gap of +2.6% above the fair price, which is where we flag value (Value flag). Confidence is Medium and model agreement is Medium. Recent form — Union Santa Fe: LLLWW; Defensa Y Justicia: WDWLW.

After the whistle

Goals and cards

  1. 8' Joaquin Mosqueira · yellow card · Union Santa Fe
  2. 43' Juan Manuel Gutiérrez · goal · assist David Barbona · Defensa Y Justicia
  3. 45' César Pérez · goal · assist Juan Manuel Gutiérrez · Defensa Y Justicia
  4. 45+4' Jeremías Lucco · yellow card · Defensa Y Justicia
  5. 66' Leandro Fernández · yellow card · Defensa Y Justicia
  6. 67' Lucas Ayala · yellow card · Union Santa Fe
  7. 71' Julián Palacios · yellow card · Union Santa Fe
  8. 76' Santiago Sosa · red card · Defensa Y Justicia
  9. 78' Marcelo Estigarriba · yellow card · Union Santa Fe
  10. 85' Cristian Tarragona · yellow card · Union Santa Fe

Match stats

Match statsUnion Santa FeDefensa Y Justicia
Possession %5941
Expected goals (xG)2.382.09
Shots2621
Shots on target710
Corners63
Yellow cards52
Red cards01
Fouls169
Offsides13
Goalkeeper saves77

What the market said before kick-off

  • Union Santa Fe win 41% did not happen
  • Draw 30% did not happen
  • Defensa Y Justicia win 30% happened
  • Over 2.5 goals 44% 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: Dario Herrera · Venue: Estadio 15 de Abril, Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz

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

Starting line-ups

Union Santa Fe 4-2-3-1

  1. M. Mansilla GK
  2. T. Rubio DF
  3. M. Rocha DF
  4. J. Ludueña DF
  5. L. Ayala DF
  6. J. Mosqueira MF
  7. E. Giaccone MF
  8. E. Ramírez MF
  9. V. Malcorra MF
  10. M. Luna Diale MF
  11. C. Tarragona FW

Defensa Y Justicia 4-2-3-1

  1. M. Borgogno GK
  2. V. Loza DF
  3. D. Fernández DF
  4. D. Martínez DF
  5. D. Domínguez DF
  6. S. Sosa MF
  7. C. Pérez MF
  8. J. Lucco MF
  9. D. Barbona MF
  10. J. Gutiérrez MF
  11. L. Fernández FW

Pinnacle, margin removed (home / draw / away): 40 / 30 / 30% when the line-ups came out, 41 / 30 / 30% 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 opportunity before kick-off Value flag

1 Union Santa Fe @ 2.21
Bookmaker 1xBet
Price observed
Flag recorded @ 2.21 (1xBet) · recorded live, before kick-off
Market 1X2 (match result)
Availability and exact price varied by country and over time.
Fair price 2.16
1xBet 2.21
Confidence: Medium
Value-bet result Lost · 1 -1.00u

Market discrepancy: before kick-off, Union Santa Fe (1) was priced at 2.21 by a soft bookmaker, above the fair price of 2.16 — a +2.6% gap. An observation about the price, not an instruction to bet.

A single result where a bookmaker pays above the fair price — separate from the main prediction below.

Most likely result

1/X Home or draw 75%

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

1X2
Sharp, recorded46%28%25%
Other estimates
Our model38%29%34%

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) 1.34
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 2.08 / 3.35 / 3.69
Market Gap +2.6%
Confidence Medium
Model agreement Medium

Confidence reflects only the sharp probability of the selection: high from 50%, medium from 40%, low below. It says how likely the result is, not how big the price gap is. Model agreement shows how close our own model is to the sharp market on this selection — when it is Low, the market and our model disagree, so treat the flag with more caution.

Prediction result Lost · 2

Value lifecycle Settled

Detected ·
1 Union Santa Fe · soft 2.21 (1xBet) · fair 2.16 · edge +2.6%
Opening sharp
2.08
At close
2.44 · CLV -9.5%
Result
Lost -1.00u 🔒 Recorded live before kick-off

“Detected” is the moment the flag was first shown on the site and written to our ledger (recorded live since 26 September 2026). For earlier matches the flag was reconstructed afterwards from the prices we had stored, and the time shown is when the rule would have fired: a backtest, not a live record. When the gap closes, we say so instead of pretending the value is still there.

Match context

The last 5 head-to-head meetings we tracked split 2–2–1 (Union Santa Fe wins – draws – Defensa Y Justicia wins).

Union Santa Fe scored 1.8 and conceded 2 across their last 5 matches in our results database; Defensa Y Justicia scored 1.6 and conceded 0.6 in 5.

Since opening around 2.08, the sharp market price on Union Santa Fe has drifted to 2.44 — the market has moved against this outcome.

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

Market-relevant trends

Union Santa Fe has lost its last 3 matches.
✓ And the market hasn't fully priced it in: value flagged on Union Santa Fe at +2.6% above fair.

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?

Union Santa Fe
L L L W W
avg 1.8 scored · 2 conceded (last 5)
Defensa Y Justicia
W D W L W
avg 1.6 scored · 0.6 conceded (last 5)
Recent head-to-head
21 Mar 2026 Defensa Y Justicia 2–0 Union Santa Fe
21 Oct 2025 Union Santa Fe 3–0 Defensa Y Justicia
14 Apr 2025 Defensa Y Justicia 0–0 Union Santa Fe
15 Dec 2024 Defensa Y Justicia 0–0 Union Santa Fe
28 Jul 2023 Union Santa Fe 2–0 Defensa Y Justicia

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 1.28
Closing odds 1.38
Prediction CLV -6.8%
Result Lost
Value-bet record

Recorded when the site showed it, before kick-off. Its seal is in our public export once this match’s row is published, and in the next daily external snapshot (07:40 Bucharest time: 04:40 UTC in summer time, 05:40 UTC in winter); for flags recorded on match day that snapshot comes after kick-off, so the pre-kick-off proof is our own timestamp.

Value selection 1 · Union Santa Fe
Odds when flagged 2.21
Fair odds 2.16
Closing odds 2.44
Value CLV -9.5%
Profit (units) -1.00
Result Lost
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint 9acb2527afe75fa3

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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