Cagliari vs Lecce — Serie A result and pre-match forecast, Monday, 7 September 2026

Serie A·Monday, 7 September 2026

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Metis pre-match forecast

Market-anchored distribution

Frozen as published · 5.3 h before kick-off. Never re-computed after the match.

Cagliari

46%

pick · result

Draw

30%

Lecce

24%

Final score

1–0

Top pick landed

Metis gave a Cagliari win 46.1% before kick-off, and its most likely result was a Cagliari win. Expected goals 1.52–1.07 against 1–0 actual.

Forecast against the result

Over 2.5 goals48%1 scored
Both teams score54%no
Cagliari clean sheet34%yes
Lecce clean sheet21%no
Cagliari score 2+45%no
Lecce score 2+29%no

How this forecast scored

Ranked probability score0.1733
1X2 Brier score0.4383
Probability on the result46.1%

Both scores are losses: lower is better, 0 is a forecast that put all of its probability on what happened. A single fixture says nothing on its own — the league's running record is on its league page, and the model is measured against the Pinnacle opening price in the methodology.

Most likely scores before kick-off: 1–1 (14.4%), 1–0 (10.3%), 2–1 (9.5%). It finished 1–0 — one of them.

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Cagliari

22 AugAvs Parma1–0W
30 AugHvs Inter0–1L
7 SeptHvs Lecce1–0W
12 SeptAvs Atalanta2–1W
19 SeptAvs Udinese1–0W

Lecce

23 AugAvs Venezia2–0W
31 AugHvs AS Roma0–4L
7 SeptAvs Cagliari0–1L
13 SeptHvs Monza3–2W
20 SeptAvs AC Milan0–3L

Head to head

No previous meetings in the Metis results archive for this competition.

Model context

StatCagliari
(Home · 2 matches)
Lecce
(Away · 3 matches)
BTTS rate0.0%0.0%
Over 2.5 rate0.0%33.3%
Clean sheet50.0%33.3%
Avg goals1.002.00

Home stats use Cagliari's home record; away stats use Lecce's away record this season. These are completed-match rates over the samples shown above, not model probabilities — early in a season a handful of matches produces 0% and 100% readings.