Gameweek in Review
Every round, we go back over what we called — the pick that came off, the one that missed, and the players who actually decided it.
UEFA Europa League · League Stage - 1
Bamidele Yusuf was the one clean call in a round that otherwise preferred its own ideas
Fipster found one proper hit in UEFA Europa League League Stage - 1, with Bamidele Yusuf scoring as forecast for Ferencvarosi TC. The rest was a harder lesson: Beşiktaş ran away from the narrow win we expected, Crystal Palace flattened Lech Poznan, and Juventus turned a routine home call into a five-goal stroll.
1 STAR · 5 TICK · 10 MISS
UEFA Europa League · Play-offs
Lech Poznan supplied the round’s loudest correction, and the model still found enough to like
UEFA Europa League play-off week gave Fipster ten clean hits and eight misses, but the real story was not the tally. Lech Poznan’s 7-0 first leg was the clearest call that landed; Kairat Almaty’s 3-0 win over Anderlecht was the one that slipped away fastest. The round also produced a proper list of names worth keeping in view, with Bamidele Yusuf, Jesús Imaz and Jens Wålemark all leaving fingerprints on it.
0 STAR · 10 TICK · 8 MISS
UEFA Europa League · 3rd Qualifying Round
The model found the narrow wins, then got mugged by the scorelines
Fipster came out of the Europa League third qualifying round with four stars, nine ticks and thirteen misses. The cleanest calls were the tight home wins and a few low-scoring ties; the damage came when games opened up, or shut down, in ways the model had not really priced in. A decent round on paper, but one that spent a lot of time looking at the wrong end of the telescope.
4 STAR · 9 TICK · 13 MISS