Padova vs Verona — Serie B result and pre-match forecast, Saturday, 29 August 2026

Serie B·Saturday, 29 August 2026

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Metis pre-match forecast

Market-anchored distribution

Frozen as published · 3.3 h before kick-off. Never re-computed after the match.

Padova

32%

Draw

31%

result

Hellas Verona

36%

top pick

Final score

1–1

Top pick missed

Metis gave the draw 31.3% before kick-off, and its most likely result was a Hellas Verona win. Expected goals 1.21–1.23 against 1–1 actual.

Forecast against the result

Over 2.5 goals44%2 scored
Both teams score52%yes
Padova clean sheet28%no
Hellas Verona clean sheet30%no
Padova score 2+34%no
Hellas Verona score 2+35%no

How this forecast scored

Ranked probability score0.1185
1X2 Brier score0.7096
Probability on the result31.3%

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 (14.9%), 0–0 (10.2%), 0–1 (10.2%). It finished 1–1 — one of them.

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Padova

23 AugAvs Pisa1–0W
29 AugHvs Verona1–1D
6 SeptAvs Cremonese1–3L
12 SeptHvs Ascoli1–0W
19 SeptAvs Palermo1–2L

Verona

23 AugHvs Ascoli1–2L
29 AugAvs Padova1–1D
6 SeptHvs Arezzo5–0W
11 SeptAvs Benevento1–3L
20 SeptHvs Vicenza2–1W

Head to head

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

Model context

StatPadova
(Home · 5 matches)
Verona
(Away · 4 matches)
BTTS rate40.0%75.0%
Over 2.5 rate20.0%50.0%
Clean sheet40.0%25.0%
Avg goals2.003.00

Home stats use Padova's home record; away stats use Verona'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.