FootballEdgeSeason 2026/27Self-updating record
Full time · Serie A · Sun 30 Aug 2026, 19:45 UTC

Cagliari 01 Inter

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What the chances were worth

Cagliari
0.45
expected goals (xG)
Inter
3.80
expected goals (xG)

The scoreline says 0–1; by chance quality the match ran 0.45–3.80.

What the model expected

Its probabilities for this match, logged before kick-off and never changed. The result is highlighted.

Cagliari
23%
Draw
28%
Inter
49%

The model made Inter to win its most likely call before kick-off, and that is what happened. It had the result at 49% beforehand.

One match tells you nothing on its own — whether these percentages are any good is the whole point of the calibration page, where every one of them is scored.

The brain read

Inter created the better chances — the xG read 0.5–3.8 and the shot count agreed (10–30, 0–7 on target). Inter got into the box far more often (24 shots inside it to 5) and Inter held 65% of the ball. Inter's finishing let them down — 1 from 3.8 xG despite 7 of 30 shots on target (a finishing read inferred from shots on target and goals vs xG — not measured shot placement). On the balance of chances, the 0–1 reads fair.

A second opinion written by rule from the numbers on this page — where the shot picture and the xG disagree, it says so rather than picking a winner. Backward-looking only; it claims nothing about any future result.

The match in numbers

Cagliari
Inter
35%
Ball Possession
65%
10
Total Shots
30
0
Shots on Goal
7
8
Shots off Goal
17
2
Blocked Shots
6
5
Shots inside box
24
5
Shots outside box
6
0.45
Expected goals (xG)
3.80
8
Corner Kicks
6
4
Offsides
1
362
Total passes
678
304
Passes accurate
618
84%
Passes %
91%
6
Fouls
5
2
Yellow Cards
1
5
Goalkeeper Saves
0
0.00
Goals prevented
0.00

As returned by the data feed at full time. Bars show each side’s share of the stat.

Confirmed line-ups

Captured from the official team sheets in the last hour before kick-off. The pick test requires these to be in before any call counts.

Cagliari 4-2-3-1

  1. 1 Elia Caprile (G)
  2. 2 Zé Pedro (D)
  3. 4 Alessandro Romano (M)
  4. 6 Harry Winks (M)
  5. 8 Michel Adopo (M)
  6. 10 Jacopo Fazzini (M)
  7. 14 Alessandro Deiola (D)
  8. 15 Juan Rodríguez (D)
  9. 31 Paul Mendy (F)
  10. 33 Adam Obert (D)
  11. 70 Daniel Maldini (M)

Bench: Boris Radunović, Alen Sherri, Raphael Kofler, Riccardo Ciervo, Giuseppe Aurelio, Nicolò Cavuoti, Ivan Sulev, Joseph Liteta, Demi Akarakiri, Alieu Fadera, Kevin Carlos Omoruyi, Gennaro Borrelli, Mattia Felici

Inter 3-5-2

  1. 1 Josep Martínez (G)
  2. 8 Petar Sučić (M)
  3. 10 Lautaro Martínez (F)
  4. 11 Luís Henrique (M)
  5. 20 Hakan Çalhanoğlu (M)
  6. 23 Nicolò Barella (M)
  7. 25 Manuel Akanji (D)
  8. 28 Benjamin Pavard (D)
  9. 32 Federico Dimarco (M)
  10. 94 Pio Esposito (F)
  11. 95 Alessandro Bastoni (D)

Bench: Ivan Provedel, Raffaele Di Gennaro, Yann Bisseck, Carlos Augusto, John Stones, Andy Diouf, Piotr Zieliński, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Curtis Jones, Aleksandar Stanković, Marcus Thuram, Ange-Yoan Bonny

The market’s read

Cagliari
12%
market implied · price 7.70 · opened 12%
Draw
21%
market implied · price 4.63 · opened 22%
Inter
67%
market implied · price 1.42 · opened 65%
MarketConsensus priceImplied chanceMove
Double chance Cagliari or draw2.8633.1%-1.7 pts
Double chance Inter or draw1.0987.1%+0.5 pts
Double chance either team1.1879.9%+1.2 pts
Draw no bet — Cagliari5.8515.9%-1.3 pts
Draw no bet — Inter1.1184.1%+1.3 pts
Over 1.5 goals1.2476.4%+3.6 pts
Over 2.5 goals1.7753.8%+4.3 pts
Over 3.5 goals2.8732.8%+4.1 pts
Both teams to score1.9747.5%+2.6 pts
Cagliari over 1.5 team goals4.9718.8%+1.4 pts
Inter over 1.5 team goals1.5261.6%+3.9 pts
Cagliari clean sheet6.3814.7%-0.9 pts
Inter clean sheet1.9647.4%-2.7 pts

Shortest-priced scorelines: 0-2 6.27 · 0-1 6.33 · 1-2 7.79 · 1-1 8.17 · 0-3 9.06

Consensus of bookmaker prices captured 2026-08-30 18:30 UTC. These are the closing prices — the market’s last word before kick-off. The Move column is how each market’s implied chance has shifted since the first price we captured: green = the chance has risen (the price shortened, backing coming in), red = the chance has fallen (the price eased out — what punters call the price ‘drifting’).

Prices are observations, not offers. Each price is the average across the bookmakers the collector sees, and the implied chance is that price with the bookmaker’s margin stripped out. The market’s read is published so the model’s read can be judged against it — nothing here is advice, and nothing here is staked.

Head to head

DateHomeScoreAway
17 Apr 26Inter3-0Cagliari
27 Sep 25Cagliari0-2Inter