MLS

St. Louis City 0–0 Vancouver Whitecaps

Final score · Half-time 0–0 · Latest results

When the value flag on St. Louis City was recorded live, the sharp market made Vancouver Whitecaps the most likely outcome at 39% (fair odds 2.59). On St. Louis City, LeoVegas (SE) offered 2.88, +5.9% above its fair price of 2.72 (Strong value). Recent form — St. Louis City: WWWWD; Vancouver Whitecaps: DLDWL.

After the whistle

Goals and cards

  1. 45+1' Fallou Fall · yellow card · St. Louis City
  2. 45+2' Édier Ocampo · yellow card · Vancouver Whitecaps
  3. 81' Ralph Priso · yellow card · Vancouver Whitecaps
  4. 85' Alexandru Măţan · yellow card · St. Louis City

Match stats

Match statsSt. Louis CityVancouver Whitecaps
Possession %5446
Expected goals (xG)0.750.83
Shots817
Shots on target40
Corners610
Yellow cards22
Red cards00
Fouls1714
Offsides12
Goalkeeper saves03

What the market said before kick-off

  • St. Louis City win 41% did not happen
  • Draw 25% happened
  • Vancouver Whitecaps win 33% did not happen
  • Over 2.5 goals 64% did not happen
  • Both teams score 67% did not happen
  • Value flag before kick-off: 1 · St. Louis City @ 2.88 (LeoVegas (SE)) Lost

CLV +17.7% vs the fair close. One flag on its own says little; the rule is judged on all of them.

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: Filip Dujic · Venue: Citypark, Saint Louis

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

Starting line-ups

St. Louis City 3-4-3

  1. 1 R. Bürki GK
  2. 21 D. Polvara DF
  3. 32 T. Baumgartl DF
  4. 27 F. Fall DF
  5. 6 C. Wallem MF
  6. 24 D. Edelman MF
  7. 8 C. Durkin MF
  8. 14 T. Totland MF
  9. 19 C. Holse FW
  10. 9 Rafael Navarro FW
  11. 23 A. Mățan FW

Bench: M. Perez, Rafael Santos, S. Becher, D. Downs, Jeong Sang-Bin, B. Lundt, L. MacNaughton, J. Orozco, T. Ostrák

Coach: Y. Damet

Vancouver Whitecaps 4-2-3-1

  1. 1 Y. Takaoka GK
  2. 18 É. Ocampo DF
  3. 2 M. Laborda DF
  4. 6 R. Priso DF
  5. 28 T. Johnson DF
  6. 8 O. Larraz MF
  7. 20 A. Cubas MF
  8. 11 E. Sabbi MF
  9. 25 R. Gauld MF
  10. 77 Y. Diaby MF
  11. 24 B. White FW

Bench: Bruno Steven Caicedo Quiñonez, A. Cvetković, N. Djordjevic, R. Elloumi, M. Gherasimencov, Rui Modesto, C. Sabaly, I. Boehmer, R. Veselinović

Coach: J. Sørensen

Regular starters not in the XI

  • T. Blackmon — 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.

Pinnacle, margin removed (home / draw / away): 44 / 24 / 32% when the line-ups came out, 41 / 25 / 33% 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 opportunity before kick-off Strong value

1 St. Louis City @ 2.88
Bookmaker LeoVegas (SE)
Price observed
Flag recorded @ 2.88 (LeoVegas (SE)) · recorded live, before kick-off
Market 1X2 (match result)
Availability and exact price varied by country and over time.
Fair price 2.72
LeoVegas (SE) 2.88
Market Gap +5.9%
Confidence Low
Model agreement High

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.

Value flag result Lost · 1 -1.00u

Market discrepancy: before kick-off, St. Louis City (1) was priced at 2.88 by a soft bookmaker, above the fair price of 2.72 — a +5.9% 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.

Two most likely results

1/2 Home or away 75% · as recorded

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

1X2
Sharp, recorded37%25%39%
Other estimates
Our model40%26%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) 1.33
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 2.60 / 3.82 / 2.48
Pick result (single or double chance) Lost · X

Value lifecycle Settled

Detected ·
1 St. Louis City · soft 2.88 (LeoVegas (SE)) · fair 2.72 · edge +5.9%
Opening sharp
2.60
At close
2.45 · CLV +17.7%
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

St. Louis City averaged 3.6 goals scored and 1.4 conceded per game over their last 5 matches in our results database; Vancouver Whitecaps averaged 1.8 and 1.8 over 5.

Since opening around 2.60, the sharp market price on St. Louis City has shortened to 2.45 — the market has moved towards 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

St. Louis City has won its last 4 matches.
✓ And the market hasn't fully priced it in: value flagged on St. Louis City at +5.9% 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?

St. Louis City
W W W W D
avg 3.6 scored · 1.4 conceded (last 5)
Vancouver Whitecaps
D L D W L
avg 1.8 scored · 1.8 conceded (last 5)

Form: most recent match first.

Recent head-to-head
06 Sep 2026 Vancouver Whitecaps 1–3 St. Louis City
24 Aug 2025 Vancouver Whitecaps 3–2 St. Louis City
20 Apr 2025 St. Louis City 0–0 Vancouver Whitecaps

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 1/2 · Home or away
Odds recorded for the prediction 1.27
Pinnacle closing odds (with margin) 1.30
Prediction CLV -2.4%
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 · St. Louis City
Odds when flagged 2.88
Fair odds 2.72
Fair closing odds (Pinnacle, margin removed) 2.45
Value CLV +17.7%
Profit (units) -1.00
Result Lost
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint e460bf39ea5cb296

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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