First League · Bulgaria · Championship Round - 3

CSKA Sofia–Levski Krumovgrad

2–2

HT 1–1

Kick-off: Saturday, 18 May 2024 at 14:45
Status: Match Finished
Venue: Stadion Vasil Levski, Sofia

What the model said, and what happened

Ended level — we gave the draw 20%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

Goals and red cards

3'Levski KrumovgradPatrick Luan
29'CSKA SofiaJ. Lindseth
49'CSKA SofiaMatthias Phaeton
55'Levski KrumovgradPatrick Luan

Match statistics

Match statistics
CSKA Sofia		Levski Krumovgrad
25	Shots	10
9	Shots on target	5
16	Shots inside the box	5
3	Goalkeeper saves	7
6	Corners	8
2	Offsides	4
59%	Possession	41%
398	Passes	274
333	Accurate passes

What we expected, and what happened

Expected goals before kick-off: CSKA Sofia 2.10 · Levski Krumovgrad 0.78. On the pitch: 2-2.
Shots CSKA Sofia 25 · Levski Krumovgrad 10; on target 9 and 5.
CSKA Sofia kept the ball more (59%).

Referee

I. Andreev→

5.33

yellows per match

0.17

reds per match

matches of data

Model prediction

Why this prediction?

The model puts the most likely outcome at 68.4%: “CSKA Sofia to win”. Second comes “a draw” at 20.2%.
Behind that distribution are the expected goals: 2.10 for CSKA Sofia, 0.78 for Levski Krumovgrad.
The highest double chance value is 88.6% (1X — CSKA Sofia win or draw).
These values were computed from 501 past matches.

This is a prediction, not a guarantee; a probability is not a certainty.

These sentences are built by a fixed template; every number in them comes straight from the model's computation, none invented while the text was written.

CSKA Sofia to win68.4%

Draw20.2%

Levski Krumovgrad to win11.4%

When the model has said 65–70% in the past, 1,039 of 1,527 predictions were correct (68.0%). Accuracy record →

7	Fouls	10

2	Yellow cards	2

0	Red cards	0

First half

Actual: 1–1

CSKA Sofia lead at half-time51.7%

Level at half-time38.2%

Levski Krumovgrad lead at half-time10.1%

First-half double chance

1X — CSKA Sofia ahead or level89.9%

12 — not level at half-time61.8%

X2 — level or Levski Krumovgrad ahead48.3%

These values are not a fraction of the full-match prediction; they come from a separate model trained on the first-half scores of 501 matches. Its edge over the base rate is markedly smaller than the full-match model's — the measured figure is on the accuracy record. Read them more cautiously. First-half goal markets are not published because they failed to beat the base rate.

Expected fouls and corners

Fouls

CSKA Sofia: at least 11Actual: 7
Levski Krumovgrad: at least 13Actual: 10

Corners

CSKA Sofia: at least 7Actual: 6
Levski Krumovgrad: at least 2Actual: 8

These figures are set to hold in at least 60% of matches; in the rest the count comes in below them. No upper bound is stated — we make no "at most" claim. Yellow cards were measured and are not published: there our model did not beat the historical average.

What these probabilities rest on

Expected goals comes out of a team's attack weighed against its opponent's defence. A strong attack is damped when it meets a strong defence — which is why comparing the ratings on their own is misleading.

How many goals CSKA Sofia score2.10

Attack: CSKA Sofia score 56% more than the league's average team — one of the sharpest attacks in the league.

Opponent's defence: Levski Krumovgrad's defence is close to the league average (1.03×), so it doesn't move the expectation much.

Result: These two effects give an expectation of 2.10 goals (including home advantage).

How many goals Levski Krumovgrad score0.78

Attack: Levski Krumovgrad score above the league average (27% more).

Opponent's defence: CSKA Sofia concede 27% fewer than the league average, which pulls the expectation down.

Result: These two effects give an expectation of 0.78 goals (including the away penalty).

Most likely scorelines

2–012.7%1–011.0%2–110.7%

A single scoreline is always less likely than an outcome: “home win” is the sum of 1-0, 2-0, 2-1 and dozens more. So the most likely single score can be a draw while the most likely outcome is a home win; the two do not contradict each other.

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.