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.
Ligue 1 · Regular Season - 4
Rennes, Auxerre and the late scorers made a mess of the model’s neatest ideas
Three calls landed, six did not, and the round’s real lesson was that several matches were decided by players Fipster had not flagged at all. Rennes beat Marseille, Auxerre nicked Nice, and the biggest damage came from goals by Cameron Archer, Adrien Thomasson and Paris Josua Brunner that sat outside the pre-match script.
0 STAR · 3 TICK · 6 MISS
Major League Soccer · Regular Season - 25
Samuel Surridge and Cavan Sullivan gave the round its best arguments, while the model spent too much time admiring the wrong forwards
Four correct calls from fifteen is not a disaster so much as a reminder to be choosy. The model found Samuel Surridge, Cavan Sullivan, Marco Reus and Christian Ramirez, but it leaned too hard on several familiar scorers and missed the players who actually bent the week.
0 STAR · 4 TICK · 11 MISS
Czech Liga · Regular Season - 8
Václav Drchal and the names Fipster missed most made Czech Liga - Regular Season - 8 awkward in all the right places
Six correct calls kept the round respectable, but the two misses were the ones that mattered: Pardubice’s away win at Baník Ostrava and Sigma Olomouc’s comeback at Plzen both came from scorers Fipster had not priced in. The model still found useful reads on Bohemians 1905, Sparta Praha, Slavia Praha and Hradec Králové, yet this was a round where the goals that decided things often arrived from the wrong drawer.
0 STAR · 6 TICK · 2 MISS
Bundesliga · Regular Season - 3
Can Uzun and Harry Kane gave Bundesliga Round 3 its clearest answers
Fipster landed the Bayern call in full and got the broad direction right in a few other places, but this round was mostly decided by players the model had not named. Can Uzun, Harry Kane, Felix Nmecha and Michael Gregoritsch did the damage while several narrow home-win reads came up short.
2 STAR · 3 TICK · 4 MISS
Championship · Regular Season - 7
Championship Round 7: West Ham’s rout, and the scorers Fipster did not see coming
One exact call landed cleanly in Derby, but the round belonged to the names the model left off the page. West Ham’s 6-0 win over Wrexham was the loudest miss; Sebastian Berhalter, Oladapo Afolayan and Manor Solomon did most of the damage elsewhere.
1 STAR · 7 TICK · 4 MISS
Czech Liga · Regular Season - 6
Slavia Praha were the cleanest read, but the round belonged to the names Fipster never had down
Three calls landed, four did not, and the round’s lesson was plain enough: the model saw Slavia Praha’s edge at Sparta Praha, but it was too fond of away wins elsewhere and too slow to spot the scorers who actually changed the scorelines.
0 STAR · 3 TICK · 4 MISS
Bundesliga · Regular Season - 2
Mainz, Leverkusen and a clean sheet for Bayern: Bundesliga’s second round was not shy
Three calls landed, six did not, and the misses were loud enough to drown out the tidy bits. The model liked home wins that never arrived in Frankfurt, Hamburg or Bremen, while Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Dortmund at least gave it something to hold on to.
0 STAR · 3 TICK · 6 MISS
Serie A · Regular Season - 3
Lautaro Martínez and the late swing that made this round look sharper than it was
Fipster landed one clean call in Serie A’s third round and found four more useful reads, but the misses were loud enough to matter. The model liked tight home wins; the round kept handing back late goals, away turns and a few names it had not seen coming.
1 STAR · 4 TICK · 5 MISS
La Liga · Regular Season - 4
Barcelona’s five at Valencia rescued a thin week for Fipster
Three correct calls were not enough to disguise a rough La Liga round, but Barcelona’s 5-0 win at Valencia showed the model can still land the broad read when the attacking gap is obvious. The misses were louder elsewhere, especially where away wins were trusted and home sides turned the table over.
0 STAR · 3 TICK · 7 MISS
Premiership · Regular Season - 6
J. Fowler and Michael Forbes turned Premiership Round 6 into a lesson in late goals and bad assumptions
Fipster landed one exact scoreline and three correct outcomes in Premiership Round 6, but the two misses came from over-certain home and away reads that ignored who was actually finishing the chances. The round was decided by late equaliser work, penalty swings, and a handful of players the model never named before kick-off.
1 STAR · 3 TICK · 2 MISS
UEFA Champions League · League Stage - 1
Fipster got the big names right, but the round belonged to the ones it did not see coming
Two exact scorelines and a decent pile of home wins gave the model a respectable night, yet the round was really decided by the players it failed to pin down: Raphinha, Ferran Torres, Erling Braut Haaland and Martin Ødegaard all turned up where Fipster had not named them.
2 STAR · 6 TICK · 7 MISS
Süper Lig · Regular Season - 4
Ebere Onuachu and Mohamed Salah turned a bad week for the model into a proper argument
Fipster only found two correct calls in Süper Lig’s fourth round, and both were narrow home wins. The bigger story was elsewhere: Trabzonspor’s front line ran riot, Gaziantep FK and Galatasaray produced the round’s loudest attacking answers, and several of the model’s neat home-win ideas were swept aside by sharper finishing.
0 STAR · 2 TICK · 7 MISS