UEFA Champions League · League Stage - 3

Athletic Club–Qarabag

3–1

HT 1–1

Kick-off: Wednesday, 22 October 2025 at 16:45
Status: Match Finished

Goals and red cards

1'QarabagLeandro Andrade
40'Athletic ClubG. Guruzeta (assist: Mikel Jauregizar)
70'Athletic ClubRobert Navarro (assist: Álex Berenguer)
88'Athletic ClubG. Guruzeta (assist: Mikel Jauregizar)

Match statistics

Match statistics
Athletic Club		Qarabag
21	Shots	9
5	Shots on target	4
13	Shots inside the box	6
2	Goalkeeper saves	2
8	Corners	3
1	Offsides	0
60%	Possession	40%
486	Passes	336
413	Accurate passes

What we expected, and what happened

Shots Athletic Club 21 · Qarabag 9; on target 5 and 4.
Athletic Club kept the ball more (60%).

Referee

I. Pajac→

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.

Only 0 matches of data exist in this league before this date. A rating computed from that little data is nothing but noise.

14	Fouls	5

0	Yellow cards	0

0	Red cards	0

Week 3 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: the bias is only pronounced in the opening week. In this week the model's overall accuracy does not separate from the rest of the season — that is, we found no measurable flaw. The one tendency across all opening weeks is that home wins are called slightly too often (said 43.0%, got 41.9%; n=583).

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.