Premier Division

Sligo Rovers 1–1 Dundalk

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

The sharp market makes Dundalk the most likely outcome at 56% — fair odds of 1.79. Unibet (NL) offers 1.81, a market gap of +1.2% above the fair price, which is where we flag value (Micro-edge). Confidence is High and model agreement is Low. Recent form — Sligo Rovers: LLLLL; Dundalk: LLLDW.

After the whistle

Goals and cards

  1. 20' Tyreke Wilson · yellow card · Dundalk
  2. 46' Kaiyne Woolery · goal · assist sean stewart · Sligo Rovers
  3. 57' Luke Young · yellow card · Sligo Rovers
  4. 59' sean stewart · yellow card · Sligo Rovers
  5. 90' ronan teahan · goal · assist Declan McDaid · Dundalk

Match stats

Match statsSligo RoversDundalk
Possession %4456
Expected goals (xG)0.361.73
Shots523
Shots on target29
Corners113
Yellow cards21
Red cards00
Fouls119
Offsides33
Goalkeeper saves71

What the market said before kick-off

  • Sligo Rovers win 19% did not happen
  • Draw 22% happened
  • Dundalk win 58% did not happen
  • Over 2.5 goals 61% 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.

Venue: The Showgrounds, Sligo

Next matches

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

Starting line-ups

Sligo Rovers 4-2-3-1

  1. 1 Liam John Hughes GK
  2. 51 Aidan Gabbidon DF
  3. 15 O. Denham DF
  4. 52 G. McElroy DF
  5. 3 Sean Stewart DF
  6. 6 L. Young MF
  7. 71 D. Patton MF
  8. 41 K. Woolery MF
  9. 10 A. Meekison MF
  10. 7 J. Shorrock MF
  11. 11 C. Kavanagh FW

Bench: L. Pearce, S. Quirk, K. McDonagh, J. McManus, Kevin Zefi, Ross Ruane-Dalton, Charlie Mcgarvey, Ruben Gillespie, Conor Cannon

Coach: D. Purse

Regular starters not in the XI

  • Carl McHugh — not in the squad (started 5 of the last 5)

Dundalk 4-2-3-1

  1. 1 E. Minogue GK
  2. 3 B. Burns DF
  3. 4 M. Animasahun DF
  4. 44 T. Grivosti DF
  5. 22 T. Wilson DF
  6. 18 K. Buckley MF
  7. 6 A. Dervin MF
  8. 15 T. Clarke MF
  9. 11 R. Teahan MF
  10. 7 D. Horgan MF
  11. 9 C. Dillon FW

Bench: S. Tracey, E. Vassenin, H. Warren, S. Safaei, D. McDaid, H. Groome, Leonardo Gaxha, Norman Garbett, L. Mulligan

Coach: C. Kilduff

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): 20 / 22 / 58% when the line-ups came out, 19 / 22 / 58% 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 Micro-edge

2 Dundalk @ 1.81
Bookmaker Unibet (NL)
Price observed
Flag recorded @ 1.81 (Unibet (NL)) · recorded live, before kick-off
Market 1X2 (match result)
Availability and exact price varied by country and over time.
Fair price 1.79
Unibet (NL) 1.81
Confidence: High
Value-bet result Lost · 2 -1.00u

Market discrepancy: before kick-off, Dundalk (2) was priced at 1.81 by a soft bookmaker, above the fair price of 1.79 — a +1.2% gap. An observation about the price, not an instruction to bet.

The gap was smaller than 1.5% — likely to vanish in rounding, latency or line movement. We logged it for transparency, but it was not a strong signal.

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

Most likely result

2 Away win 60%
1X2
Sharp, recorded19%21%60%
Other estimates
Our model37%27%37%

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) 1.67
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 4.69 / 4.18 / 1.61
Market Gap +1.2%
Confidence High
Model agreement Low

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 · X

Value lifecycle Settled

Detected ·
2 Dundalk · soft 1.81 (Unibet (NL)) · fair 1.79 · edge +1.2%
Opening sharp
1.61
At close
1.71 · CLV +5.9%
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 2–1–2 (Sligo Rovers wins – draws – Dundalk wins).

Sligo Rovers scored 0.4 and conceded 2.8 across their last 5 matches in our results database; Dundalk scored 1.4 and conceded 2.4 in 5.

Since opening around 1.61, the sharp market price on Dundalk has drifted to 1.71 — 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

Sligo Rovers has lost its last 5 matches.
No value Already reflected in the fair price — no value on Sligo Rovers here.
Dundalk has lost its last 3 matches.
No value Already reflected in the fair price — no value on Dundalk 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?

Sligo Rovers
L L L L L
avg 0.4 scored · 2.8 conceded (last 5)
Dundalk
L L L D W
avg 1.4 scored · 2.4 conceded (last 5)
Recent head-to-head
31 Jul 2026 Dundalk 1–1 Sligo Rovers
25 Apr 2026 Sligo Rovers 2–0 Dundalk
16 Mar 2026 Dundalk 1–0 Sligo Rovers
21 Sep 2024 Sligo Rovers 2–1 Dundalk
13 Jun 2024 Dundalk 1–0 Sligo Rovers

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 2 · Away win
Odds recorded for the prediction 1.61
Closing odds 1.67
Prediction CLV -3.6%
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 2 · Dundalk
Odds when flagged 1.81
Fair odds 1.79
Closing odds 1.71
Value CLV +5.9%
Profit (units) -1.00
Result Lost
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint e1c2559fd17776bf

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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