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UEFA Champions League · 25/26

Bayer 04 Leverkusen v Villarreal

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.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen3 – 0 Villarreal 28 Jan 2026
11/14
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 Bayer 04 Leverkusen beat Villarreal 3–0, the SharpXI model made 14 confident calls on the player markets and 11 landed — the strongest being Christian Kofane for 1+ fouls committed (84%, had 1). Its clearest miss: Arthur for 1+ fouls committed (78%, 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-29% cards vs the league average
Espen Eskas refereed this match 2.82cards a game· league 3.96 17games
Espen Eskas'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
Christian Kofane fouls committed 1+ 84% 1
Arthur fouls committed 1+ 78% 0
Exequiel Palacios fouls drawn 1+ 77% 1
Georges Mikautadze shots total 1+ 77% 1
Ezequiel Fernández fouls committed 1+ 77% 1
Robert Andrich fouls committed 1+ 76% 0
Ibrahim Maza fouls drawn 1+ 75% 3
Tajon Buchanan fouls drawn 1+ 73% 0
Georges Mikautadze fouls drawn 1+ 73% 1
Christian Kofane shots total 1+ 73% 1
Tani Oluwaseyi shots total 1+ 72% 1
Patrik Schick shots total 1+ 72% 2
Ezequiel Fernández fouls drawn 1+ 72% 1
Lucas Vázquez fouls committed 1+ 72% 1

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

Team & match markets

MarketLineModel ActualResult
Match goals O2.5 64% 3 goals
BTTS Yes 55% No
Match cards O4.5 36% 3 cards

How these are modelled: Match goals · Match cards

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Frequently asked

How did the SharpXI model do on Bayer 04 Leverkusen v Villarreal?

11 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 Bayer 04 Leverkusen v Villarreal?

The most confident call it got wrong was Arthur at 78% 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.