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UEFA Champions League · 25/26

Athletic Club v Sporting CP

How the SharpXI model rated this UEFA Champions League fixture — every call it made on shots, cards and fouls, set against what actually happened on the day.

Athletic Club2 – 3 Sporting CP 28 Jan 2026
13/14
of the model's most-confident calls landed. Every one was published before kick-off and priced the same way as every other fixture. A single game is noise, not a verdict — the season-long record is on the track record.

Before Athletic Club lost to Sporting CP 2–3, the SharpXI model made 14 confident calls on the player markets and 13 landed — the strongest being Iñigo Ruiz de Galarreta for 1+ fouls committed (90%, had 1). Its clearest miss: Morten Hjulmand for 1+ fouls committed (74%, had 0). Every probability here was published before kick-off, priced the same way as every other fixture — one game is noise, not a verdict.

Match officials+38% cards vs the league average
Felix Zwayer refereed this match 5.45cards a game· league 3.96 20games
Felix Zwayer's card record →
See the full player stats boardBoth likely XIs side by side — hit rates over your chosen window, add to your slip

Player markets — the model's calls

Each probability is the model's own number for the headline (1+) line, before any bookmaker margin. The result column is what the player actually recorded.

PlayerMarketLineModel ActualResult
Iñigo Ruiz de Galarreta fouls committed 1+ 90% 1
Alejandro Rego Mora fouls committed 1+ 83% 4
Gorka Guruzeta fouls committed 1+ 81% 3
Luis Javier Suárez fouls drawn 1+ 81% 3
Gorka Guruzeta shots total 1+ 80% 4
Luis Javier Suárez shots total 1+ 77% 1
Mikel Vesga fouls committed 1+ 77% 1
Selton Sanchez fouls committed 1+ 76% 2
Morten Hjulmand fouls committed 1+ 74% 0
Oihan Sancet shots total 1+ 73% 3
Luis Javier Suárez fouls committed 1+ 73% 3
Robert Navarro fouls committed 1+ 72% 1
Oihan Sancet fouls committed 1+ 72% 1
Andoni Gorosabel fouls committed 1+ 71% 2

How these are modelled: Fouls committed · Fouls drawn · Shots total

Team & match markets

MarketLineModel ActualResult
Match cards O4.5 40% 9 cards
BTTS Yes 38% Yes
Match goals O2.5 34% 5 goals

How these are modelled: Match cards · BTTS

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Frequently asked

How did the SharpXI model do on Athletic Club v Sporting CP?

13 of its 14 most-confident calls landed. The board on this page lists every one with the model's pre-kickoff probability next to what actually happened, hits and misses in the same table.

What did the model get wrong on Athletic Club v Sporting CP?

The most confident call it got wrong was Morten Hjulmand at 74% for fouls committed — shown in the same table as the hits, marked with a cross. A record that hides its misses isn't a record, so we don't.

Are these probabilities hindsight?

No. Each one is the number the model produced from data available before kick-off, using the same settings as every other fixture on the site — nothing was refitted after the result. That is the only way a per-match report means anything.

Does one match tell you if the model is any good in the UEFA Champions League?

No, and we'd rather say so. A single fixture is a handful of calls and mostly noise; the season-long, market-by-market record — including the markets that fail to beat a naive guess — is on the track record page.

SharpXI models probabilities from public match data; it does not take bets or guarantee outcomes. Prices are entered per leg in the tool. 18+ — please gamble responsibly.