Udinese vs Cagliari — Serie A result and pre-match forecast, Saturday, 19 September 2026

Serie A·Saturday, 19 September 2026

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Metis pre-match forecast

Market-anchored distribution

Frozen as published · 9.4 h before kick-off. Never re-computed after the match.

Udinese

43%

top pick

Draw

30%

Cagliari

28%

result

Final score

0–1

Top pick missed

Metis gave a Cagliari win 27.6% before kick-off, and its most likely result was an Udinese win. Expected goals 1.42–1.12 against 0–1 actual.

Forecast against the result

Over 2.5 goals46%1 scored
Both teams score53%no
Udinese clean sheet33%no
Cagliari clean sheet24%yes
Udinese score 2+42%no
Cagliari score 2+31%no

How this forecast scored

Ranked probability score0.3535
1X2 Brier score0.7944
Probability on the result27.6%

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 (14.1%), 1–0 (10.3%), 0–0 (9.2%). It finished 0–1.

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Udinese

22 AugHvs Como1–1D
29 AugAvs Monza3–2W
7 SeptHvs Lazio1–2L
14 SeptAvs Inter3–5L
19 SeptHvs Cagliari0–1L

Cagliari

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

Head to head

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

Model context

StatUdinese
(Home · 6 matches)
Cagliari
(Away · 6 matches)
BTTS rate50.0%50.0%
Over 2.5 rate50.0%66.7%
Clean sheet0.0%33.3%
Avg goals3.003.00

Home stats use Udinese's home record; away stats use Cagliari'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.