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22 Oct

Midtjylland vs Sint-Truiden: AI prediction and betting pick

On 22 October, Midtjylland host Sint-Truiden. The AI models' pick is Midtjylland −1 handicap at 2.21: 5 of 16 models chose it, 3 more went in the same direction.

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Midtjylland
Sint-Truiden

AI models' pick: Midtjylland −1 handicap

2.21

Asian handicap: the bet wins if Midtjylland win by two goals or more; a one-goal win returns the stake.

AI models' pick · 5 of 16 on this bet · 3 more in the same direction

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Our football predictions so far: 88 won · 65 lost · 5 void · +4.14 units All results

likely score

1:112%odds 7.65

2:1 10%2:0 8%1:0 8%

The likely score lists the four most likely results; the odds next to it are the average price of 2 bookmakers on that score. This is not the bet: the AI consensus chooses the bet.

Match odds

last line update 18.10 13:11

result11.75X3.8924.38
total 3O1.82U1.82
both to scoreyes1.54no2.30
double chance1X1.21121.25X22.05
handicapH1 −12.21 — matches our betH2 +11.61

Over 1 day the line on the result has held: prices have not moved by a single tick.

abbreviations
  • 1/X/2 — home win / draw / away win
  • O/U — over/under total goals
  • H1/H2 — home/away handicap
  • 1X/12/X2 — home or draw / no draw / away or draw
Line movementOur bet — Midtjylland −1: 2.21 → 2.21 since we publishedView

This market has barely moved: Midtjylland −1 2.21 → 2.21, Sint-Truiden +1 1.61 → 1.61.

Midtjylland −12.21 → 2.21our betSint-Truiden +11.61 → 1.61
1.601.802.002.2017 Oct18 OctWe published · 2.21Midtjylland −1 2.21Sint-Truiden +1 1.61

Price changes

Price changes in the Handicap −1 market
WhenMidtjylland −1 · our betSint-Truiden +1
We published Midtjylland −1 handicap at 2.21
2.21opened1.61opened
21 snapshots · the prices have not changed

The largest group of AI models went for Midtjylland −1. 3 more chose close bets in the same direction: a Midtjylland win. 5 more went for over 2.5 goals. The other 3 went for both teams to score.

Odds — the bookmaker average at the moment the AI model answered.

Odds quoted in this analysis are as of 18.10 at 12:53 UTC

Midtjylland closed last season averaging 3.2 goals a game at home between the two sides, and over 2.5 goals landed there in four games out of five. Sint-Truiden, by contrast, drew a blank in 35% of their 20 away trips. The new season tells the same story with the squads as they are now: in six competitive matches the Danes have scored 17 and conceded six, while the Belgians have nine goals scored against 11 shipped. The prices back it up — 1.75 on the hosts against 4.38 on the away win gives Midtjylland a shade better than an even chance, and a −1 handicap is rated at 42%. A win by two or more goals is treated here as a working scenario rather than an exotic one, and that is where we are going in this Conference League tie: our pick is Midtjylland on the −1 handicap.

Where we could be wrong

There is a case against. Sint-Truiden keep the ball 59.3% of the time and have 15.7 shots a game, so they are equipped to slow the tempo. Midtjylland saw less of the ball across those six matches and had almost no edge on xG. Drizzle and a 23 km/h wind do not help a side that needs to win by two or more goals either.

  • 5 of 16 AI models back this bet and 3 more chose a close bet in the same direction; the other half chose something else.

The bet comes from the largest group of AI models pointing the same way (a home win and a home handicap count as one view), and within that group it is the bet named most often; if two groups are level, the one priced closer to the bookmakers' line is taken — how we calculate

Recent matches

all competitions · latest first
Midtjylland
Recent matches: Midtjylland
DateOpponentVenueScoreResult
15.10Egnatia RrogozhinëA1:1xG 1.4–0.6D
11.10CopenhagenSuperligaH2:1xG 1.6–1.7W
19.09OdenseSuperligaA1:1D
14.09BrondbySuperligaH4:1xG 1.2–0.8W
10.09SundbyDBU PokalenA7:0W
07.09NordsjællandSuperligaH2:2xG 1.9–2.1D
Sint-Truiden
Recent matches: Sint-Truiden
DateOpponentVenueScoreResult
15.10Iberia 1999H2:0xG 1.7–0.1W
11.10KV MechelenBelgian Pro LeagueA3:4xG 1.4–0.7L
20.09KVC WesterloBelgian Pro LeagueH0:2xG 2.0–1.9L
12.09SK BeverenBelgian Pro LeagueA0:2xG 0.7–1.7L
05.09RAAL La LouvièreBelgian Pro LeagueH4:0xG 2.4–0.4W
02.09Union Saint-GilloiseBelgian Pro LeagueH0:3xG 0.8–2.5L

H — home, A — away · score and xG from the team's side · league matches carry no competition tag

League table

League standings: Conference League
#TeamPW-D-LGF–GAPtsForm
5Mjällby11-0-02–03W
6Sint-Truiden11-0-02–03W
7Freiburg11-0-03–23W
15Getafe10-1-01–11D
16Midtjylland10-1-01–11D
17Nordsjælland10-1-01–11D

excerpt: both teams and their neighbours in the table · form — latest on the right

Other matches this round

Full Conference League fixtures
19:00Monaco–FreiburgOur pick:BTTS1.526 of 16 AI models picked this bet1 2.17X 3.712 3.0819:00Ajax–AtalantaOur pick:BTTS1.5710 of 16 AI models picked this bet1 2.88X 3.612 2.3319:00Braga–GentOur pick:X22.096 of 16 AI models picked this bet1 1.75X 3.752 4.59