Portsmouth 3–2 Sheffield Utd
Final score · Half-time 1–0 · All of yesterday's results
The sharp market makes Portsmouth the most likely outcome at 43% — fair odds of 2.32. 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 — Portsmouth: LDDWL; Sheffield Utd: WLLLW.
After the whistle
Goals and cards
- 27' Jayden Meghoma · yellow card · Portsmouth
- 35' Hamza Choudhury · yellow card · Sheffield Utd
- 41' Zak Swanson · goal · Portsmouth
- 44' Hamza Choudhury · red card · Sheffield Utd
- 54' Adrian Segecic · goal · assist Ryan Kavuma-McQueen · Portsmouth
- 59' Japhet Tanganga · goal · assist Tahith Chong · Sheffield Utd
- 60' Nicolas Schmid · yellow card · Portsmouth
- 60' Sam McCallum · yellow card · Sheffield Utd
- 67' Thomas Cannon · goal · assist Kalvin Phillips · Sheffield Utd
- 82' Ebou Adams · yellow card · Portsmouth
- 89' Ebou Adams · goal · Portsmouth
Match stats
| Match stats | Portsmouth | Sheffield Utd |
|---|---|---|
| Possession % | 67 | 33 |
| Expected goals (xG) | 2.25 | 2.03 |
| Shots | 24 | 11 |
| Shots on target | 7 | 4 |
| Corners | 10 | 6 |
| Yellow cards | 3 | 1 |
| Red cards | 0 | 1 |
| Fouls | 6 | 7 |
| Offsides | 4 | 1 |
| Goalkeeper saves | 2 | 4 |
What the market said before kick-off
- Portsmouth win 38% happened
- Draw 28% did not happen
- Sheffield Utd win 34% did not happen
- Over 2.5 goals 48% happened
- Both teams score 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.
Next matches
Line-ups, events and match stats: API-Football.
Starting line-ups
Portsmouth 4-2-3-1
- 1 N. Schmid GK
- 22 Z. Swanson DF
- 5 R. Poole DF
- 55 M. Dia DF
- 16 J. Meghoma DF
- 7 M. Pack MF
- 37 I. Mohamed MF
- 11 A. Kamara MF
- 10 A. Segecic MF
- 25 R. Kavuma McQueen MF
- 29 M. Milovanović FW
Bench: E. Adams, K. Anderson, O. Bailey, D. Bielica, C. Bishop, T. Devlin, E. Kenny, R. Shein, B. Killip
Coach: John Mousinho
Regular starters not in the XI
- T. Shade — not in the squad (started 4 of the last 5)
- C. Shaughnessy — not in the squad (started 4 of the last 5)
- R. Shein — on the bench (started 4 of the last 5)
Sheffield Utd 4-4-2
- 1 M. Cooper GK
- 8 H. Choudhury DF
- 5 J. Tanganga DF
- 15 L. Kitching DF
- 3 S. McCallum DF
- 19 T. Chong MF
- 42 Sydie Peck MF
- 7 J. Rothwell MF
- 22 B. Brereton MF
- 9 T. Cannon FW
- 45 P. Bamford FW
Bench: H. Burrows, T. Campbell, A. Davies, R. Donovan, M. McGuinness, K. Phillips, J. Riedewald, J. Ayew, O. Arblaster
Coach: Chris Wilder
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 / 28 / 32% when the line-ups came out, 38 / 28 / 34% at kick-off.
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 was flagged for this match: before kick-off, no bookmaker price we saw beat the fair price under our rule.
Most likely result
When no single result is likely enough, our pick covers the two most probable outcomes (double chance).
| 1 | X | 2 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sharp, recorded | 43% | 27% | 30% |
Other estimates
| Our model | 41% | 28% | 31% |
|---|
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.
Match context
The last 4 head-to-head meetings we tracked split 0–1–3 (Portsmouth wins – draws – Sheffield Utd wins).
Portsmouth scored 0.8 and conceded 1 across their last 5 matches in our results database; Sheffield Utd scored 1.2 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.
Why this price?
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
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 →
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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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