Saudi Pro League

Al Shabab 3–0 Al Taawon

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

The sharp market makes Al Shabab the most likely outcome at 43% — fair odds of 2.30. 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 — Al Shabab: DLLDD; Al Taawon: DLLDL.

After the whistle

Goals and cards

  1. 18' Abdullah Matuq · goal · Al Shabab
  2. 33' Ali Al-Bulaihi · red card · Al Shabab
  3. 43' Abdullah Matuq · yellow card · Al Shabab
  4. 45+1' Faris Al-Ghamdi · yellow card · Al Taawon
  5. 45+6' Ricardo Mathias · goal · Al Shabab
  6. 47' Abderrazak Hamdallah · disallowed by VAR · Al Taawon
  7. 49' Marin Plamenov·Petkov · yellow card · Al Taawon
  8. 67' Ashraf El Mahdioui · yellow card · Al Taawon
  9. 70' Abderrazak Hamdallah · yellow card · Al Taawon
  10. 70' Yacine Adli · yellow card · Al Shabab
  11. 78' Zinéddine Belaïd · yellow card · Al Taawon
  12. 85' Yannick Carrasco · goal · assist Ricardo Mathias · Al Shabab

Match stats

Match statsAl ShababAl Taawon
Possession %3268
Expected goals (xG)2.220.82
Shots1315
Shots on target63
Corners14
Yellow cards25
Red cards10
Fouls911
Offsides04
Goalkeeper saves32

What the market said before kick-off

  • Al Shabab win 42% happened
  • Draw 27% did not happen
  • Al Taawon win 31% did not happen
  • Over 2.5 goals 61% 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: Khalid Al-Ahmari · Venue: SHG Arena, Riyadh

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

Starting line-ups

Al Shabab 4-4-2

  1. M. Diaw GK
  2. Mohammed Fuad Ibrahim Al Thani DF
  3. T. Jedvaj DF
  4. Ali Al Bulayhi DF
  5. S. Al Anzi DF
  6. A. Matuq MF
  7. J. Brownhill MF
  8. Y. Adli MF
  9. Y. Carrasco MF
  10. Roger Martínez FW
  11. Ricardo Mathias FW

Al Taawon 4-3-3

  1. Mailson GK
  2. Ibrahim Mahnashi DF
  3. Z. Belaïd DF
  4. Muteb Al Mufarrij DF
  5. M. Petkov DF
  6. A. El Mahdioui MF
  7. N. Bajrami MF
  8. Faris Al Ghamdi MF
  9. Mohammed Al Kuwaykibi FW
  10. A. Hamed Allah FW
  11. P. Guiagon FW

Pinnacle, margin removed (home / draw / away): 44 / 24 / 32% when the line-ups came out, 42 / 27 / 31% 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

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

1/2 Home or away 76%

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

1X2
Sharp, recorded43%24%32%
Other estimates
Our model39%29%32%

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) 1.32
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 2.19 / 3.81 / 2.88
Market Gap —
Confidence —
Prediction result Won · 1

Match context

The last 4 head-to-head meetings we tracked split 1–1–2 (Al Shabab wins – draws – Al Taawon wins).

Al Shabab scored 1 and conceded 1.6 across their last 5 matches in our results database; Al Taawon scored 0.4 and conceded 2 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

Al Shabab is winless in its last 5 matches.
No value Already reflected in the fair price — no value on Al Shabab here.
Al Taawon is winless in its last 5 matches.
No value Already reflected in the fair price — no value on Al Taawon 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?

Al Shabab
D L L D D
avg 1 scored · 1.6 conceded (last 5)
Al Taawon
D L L D L
avg 0.4 scored · 2 conceded (last 5)
Recent head-to-head
03 May 2026 Al Shabab 1–5 Al Taawon
09 Jan 2026 Al Taawon 2–0 Al Shabab
22 Feb 2025 Al Taawon 2–2 Al Shabab
21 Sep 2024 Al Shabab 1–0 Al Taawon

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 1.24
Closing odds 1.31
Prediction CLV -4.7%
Result Won
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint e3b25a66debb0716

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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