Segunda División · Spain · Regular Season - 1

Sporting Gijon–Sabadell

0–0

HT 0–0

Kick-off: Monday, 17 August 2026 at 17:00
Status: Match Finished

What the model said, and what happened

Ended level — we gave the draw 27%double chance: correct

This verdict goes into the public record unchanged; we do not filter out the ones we get wrong. The model's track record

Match statistics

Match statistics
Sporting Gijon		Sabadell
8	Shots	15
5	Shots on target	2
5	Shots inside the box	9
2	Goalkeeper saves	5
1	Corners	8
2	Offsides	6
56%	Possession	44%
454	Passes	344
358	Accurate passes

What we expected, and what happened

Shots Sporting Gijon 8 · Sabadell 15; on target 5 and 2.
Sporting Gijon kept the ball more (56%).

Referee

Abraham Dominguez Cervantes, Spain→

There's no card data for this referee from before this match yet. We don't invent an average; it will appear here once the data exists.

Model prediction

No probability is published for this match.

One of the teams has only 0 matches in this league (at least 10 are required). A percentage produced from thin data is a guess dressed as certainty — we don't show it.

7	Fouls	20

1	Yellow cards	3

0	Red cards	0

Week 1 of the season. This prediction was computed from previous seasons. Summer transfers, budget changes and squad rebuilds aren't in the ratings yet — the model can only see that a team has been rebuilt once new results come in.

We measured this and we're not hiding it: in the opening week of past seasons the model came in 3.3 points below the accuracy it claimed (n=220) — for the rest of the season it beats its own claim. The tendency points this way, though it is not proof on its own: in the opening week it slightly over-calls home wins (said 42.7%, got 39.5%) and slightly under-calls draws (said 26.1%, got 28.2%).

This sample is small and not statistically established, which is why we do not correct the model for it. The correction we tried (pulling probabilities toward the league average) didn't win on holdout, so it wasn't added. Read opening-week predictions with a little more caution.